LabRats Investigate The Great Outdoors
Jul
Shageeta Jhanjee
Purely Numbers
(Mathematics)
Richard Reina
How Many Fishes in the Deep Blue Sea?
(Marine Biology)
Caitlin Ingham
It's Crystal Clear
(Chemistry)
Jacqui Towns
Who's Who in Medical Science?
(Healthcare)
Sam Towns
Fighting Cancer with Machines
(Medical Physics)
Greg Holland
Extreme Weather & Climate
(Climate Science)
Patricia Vickers-Rich
Great Crises in the History of Life
(Geology)
Nov
Darryl Holland
Water Quality and Algal Blooms
(Water Studies)
Linden Ashcroft
Angry Atmosphere
(Climate Studies)
Champions of Curiosity
Tessa Charles
LabRats Build Series: Bridges
(Engineering)
2023
Patricia Vickers-Rich The Ediacaran World (Paleontology)
Sep
Sir David Attenborough
Two Men and A Toad: The Evolution of Australian Cane Toads
(Zoology)
Gemma Lamp & Rosa Sola-Molina
The Amazing Brain
(Neuroimaging -Psychophysics)
Rob Hayes
2015
Arshin Zaman & Pierre Asselin
LabRats
Pierre Asselin
Jun
Jonathan de Booy
Synchrotron Science and Emission Spectra
Agathe Lise-Provonost & Martin Tomko
Aug
2017
Apr
Rosalie Hocking
Catalysing Greener Fuels
(Analytical Chemistry, Materials Science)
Zoran & Luther Vasic
Let there be Light!
Synchrotron Science
(Physics)
Jim Driscoll
Julie Boyce
Bang, Crash, Boom!
(Volcanology and Geology)
2016
Joseph Bevitt
Digital excavation and fossil reconstruction
(Neutron and Synchrotron Imaging)
To our dearest superstar scientists,
You believed in us and made these adventures possible - thank you! We will find a way to pass on your passion and conviction, and make this world a better place!
Sep
Aug
David Hocking
Under the Sea
(Marine Ecology)
Katherine Mack
Dark Matter
(Astrophysics)
Yulia Shuvalova
A 500 Million Years Long Adventure
(Geology/Paleontology)
Nov
Patrick Baker
Trees and Climate Change
(Forest Ecology)
Louis Walmsley
The Precious Plastics Adventure
(Sustainability & Engineering)
Schedule of Superstar Scientists - join us at the LabRats Lair!
Harry Wassiti
Rory Coulter
Cyberwarfare
(Cybersecurity)
2011
2013
2022
Dec
Science Club
Kathryn Visser
It's In Your DNA
(Genetic Counseling)
2012
Food: Different by Design
(Chemistry)
Mar
Martin Stone
Bob Wong & Marcus Michelangeli
Patricia Vickers-Rich
Sangeeta Jhanjee & Alex Ingham
The Language of Science
(Mathematics)
Observing the Universe (Astrophysics)
Mar
Sally Haldyz
Bugs and Water Quality
(Freshwater Ecology)
Peter Trusler
The Art of Science
(Paleoillustration)
2025
Back in the Belly of the Synchrotron
(Synchrotron Science)
Greg Holland
Climate Change
(Atmospheric Research)
Wai-Ho Li
Aye, Aye, Bionic Eye
(Engineering)
Andreas Fouras
X-Ray Imaging
(Engineering)
Circuits, Coding, & Arduino Boards
(Engineering)
Ticks! Chemokines!
(Biochemistry)
Zara Dennis
The Flying Geophysicist
(Geology)
What Lies Under the Surface:
Killer Algae & Adorable Moss Piglets
(Microscopy)
Michael Brown
Alan Duffy & Rebecca Allen
Gone Interstellar with SciVR!
(Astrophysics)
Dec
Sam Thiele
Volcano CSI
(Volcanology)
Alison Funston
Smaller Than Nano
(Nano-Chemistry)
Joseph Bevitt
Forensics, Fossils, and F.. Photons! (Neutron and Synchrotron Imaging)
2014
Paul Villiers
Building Epic Wind Farms
(Engineering, Sustainability)
Jul
Alison Luk & Gaby Pinget
The Great Gut Adventure: Bacteria & short-chain fatty acids
(Microbiology & Immunology)
David Reser
The Hearing Brain
(Neuroscience)
James Pearson
Synchrotron Science
The Great Solar Battery Challenge
Dec
Jasmina Lazendig-Galloway
Black Holes
(Astrophysics)
Kent Wootton
The Pharlap Mystery
(Synchrotron Science)
Team NOVA Rover
Mighty Machines To Mars
(Engineering, Robotics)
Pierre Asselin
Forces of flight
(Mechanical Engineering)
Elizabeth Paratz
Fixing a Broken Heart
(Cardiology)
What sets the PrimeSCI! LabRats science club apart is our long-standing relationship with researchers who act as scientist mentors.
Researchers are invited for their research topic, scientific passion, and desire to communicate with younger minds.
We show that scientists come in all shapes and sizes, genders and backgrounds. Meeting real scientists working in vastly different areas of science
provide tangible role models for the LabRats with their varied interests.
If you are THAT researcher and would like to participate as our Superstar Scientist, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Lydia at hlow@swin.edu.au
Nov
Adrian Dyer
Life Through the Eyes of Bees
(Vision Science)
David Cheng
Graphene: The Next Big Thing
(Materials Engineering)
Marshmallow Madness:
LabRats Engineering
Challenge
Oct
Dear Superstar Scientist,
We are looking for an adventure in your area of research, and to learn from you about the exciting happenings in your field.
We also really want to know how you got to where you are today.
Show us how we can help our world, find the cure for cancer, travel to the edge of the Universe, we want to learn from you.
Please join us at the Australian Synchrotron!
Harry Al-Wassiti
Hand-to-hand Combat with COVID-19!
(Bioengineering)
Mar
Jun
Plastic Soup:
Plastics In the Port Philip Bay
LabRats Build Series: Row(3x) Your Boat (Engineering)
Apr
Travels of a Bedu:
Inspiring Generations of Thinkers
May
Going Interstellar with OzGRAV!
(Astronomy)
Max Campbell
Alison Every
Stomachaches and H. pylori
(Mucosal Immunology)
2020
Nicole Morton
Jul
Team Swinburne SAE
Vroom! Vroom!: Mighty Machines
(Eingineering, Sustainability, Business)
Steven Siems
The Rain Maker: Cloud Seeding
(GeoEngineering)
Nicholas Price
Bionic Vision
(Neuroscience)
Pia Lentini
Australian Bats
(Applied Ecology)
Jenny Cuxson
The Unseen World
(Virology)
Katie Mack
Mysterious Universe
(Cosmology)
Pat Vicker-Rich, Peter Trusler,
& Steve Pritchard
Telling the story:
Dinosaurs in Our Backyard
(Paleontology, Art, Film)
Reshaping the Aboriginal Narrative
@Budj Bim
(Geology, Archaeology, and Robotics)
Stephen Poropat
Dinos Down Under:
Australian Cretaceous Sauropods
(Paleontology)
Fighting Cancer in the Lab: Synthetic Biology and Cancer Vaccines
(Virology)
They have made our adventures possible
Alison Funston
Almost Invisible
(Nano-Chemistry)
David Barnes
Big Data and Visualisation
(Astronomy and
Neuroscience)
Ros Gleadow
Cyanide and Cassava
(Botany)
Adrian Dyer
Life Through the Eyes of Bees
(Vision Science)
May
Tom Rich
Becoming a Paleotologist
(Paleontology)
Kent Wootton
Chocolate at the Synchrotron
(Synchrotron Science)
OzGRAV & Rebecca Alllen
The Universe and Gravitational Waves
(Astrophysics)
2018
Dean Morris, Joel Trewhella, Nick Rae
Inside the Belly of the Synchrotron Beast
(Synchrotron Science)
Rebecca Yee
Recycling Fish-n-Chips: Converting Waste Oil Into Biodiesel
(Chemical Engineering)
Whodunnit
(Forensic Science)
Sep
2019
Oct
Solange Glasser & Ben Loveridge
Future Thinkers. Today.
(Music, Psychology, Virtual Reality)
Corrie Williams
Taphonomy: CSI circa 20000BC
(Paleontology)
LabRats Build Series:
The Great I CAN Challenge
Linda McIver
Computing
(Computer Science)
2024
Ben Cowie
Infectious Diseases and Mind-Controlling Worms
(Epidemiology)
LandCare Adventures
Dolphins, Australian bush animals at night, and macrobenths
May
Month
Victoria Haritos
Sugars, Obese Yeast and Biofuels
(Chemical Engineering)
Daniel Elridge
Elizabeth Finkel
The Story Behind the Science
(Science Journalism)
Tim Moss
Life in the Womb
(Pre-Natal Science)
Andrew Glenk
Zoran Vasic
Synchrotron Science
(Physics)
Month
Month
Pierre Asselin
Physics in Motion
(Engineering)
Lisa Horsley
Allie Ford
Knock Knock, Who's Out There?
(Astrobiology)
Oct
Pierre Asselin
Sustainable Buildings: Melbourne's Council House 2
(Engineering)
Stuart Batten
Crystal Chemistry
(Chemistry)
Pierre Asselin
Making Sustainability Count
(Engineering)
Up Close and Personal with an Aerosonde Drone
(Engineering)
Kent Wootton
A Million Times Brighter Than The Sun
(Synchrotron Science)
Marlenne Rodriguez
Seabirds: Australasian Gannets
(Biology)
Apr
2021
Allie Ford
Communicating with Aliens
(Astrobiology)
Ashley Rozario
Peeping Into Cells With Super-resolution Imaging
(Chemistry)
Duncan Galloway
Neutron Stars
(Astrophysics)
Mark Jones & Pierre Asselin
Kevin Chan
Everybody Dance Now!
(Robotics)
Jun
Aug