Month
Stuart Batten
Crystal Chemistry
(Chemistry)
Pierre Asselin
Making Sustainability Count
(Engineering)
Team NOVA Rover
Mighty Machines To Mars
(Engineering, Robotics)
Victoria Haritos
Sugars, Obese Yeast and Biofuels
(Chemical Engineering)
Zoran & Luther Vasic
Let there be Light!
Synchrotron Science
(Physics)
Gemma Lamp & Rosa Sola-Molina
The Amazing Brain
(Neuroimaging -Psychophysics)
Rob Hayes
Zara Dennis
The Flying Geophysicist
(Geology)
Ashley Rozario
Peeping Into Cells With Super-resolution Imaging
(Chemistry)
Duncan Galloway
Neutron Stars
(Astrophysics)
Dec
Tom Rich
Becoming a Paleotologist
(Paleontology)
2017
Wai-Ho Li
Aye, Aye, Bionic Eye
(Engineering)
Mar
Dec
Patricia Vickers-Rich The Ediacaran World (Paleontology)
Two Men and A Toad: The Evolution of Australian Cane Toads
(Zoology)
2015
Marlenne Rodriguez
Seabirds: Australasian Gannets
(Biology)
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!
LabRats Investigate The Great Outdoors
Month
Kathryn Visser
It's In Your DNA
(Genetic Counseling)
James Pearson
Synchrotron Science
Apr
Joseph Bevitt
Digital excavation and fossil reconstruction
(Neutron and Synchrotron Imaging)
Sep
LabRats
Tim Moss
Life in the Womb
(Pre-Natal Science)
Adrian Dyer
Life Through the Eyes of Bees
(Vision Science)
Andreas Fouras
X-Ray Imaging
(Engineering)
Elizabeth Paratz
Fixing a Broken Heart
(Cardiology)
Aug
Jun
Alison Every
Stomachaches and H. pylori
(Mucosal Immunology)
David Cheng
Graphene: The Next Big Thing
(Materials Engineering)
Kent Wootton
The Pharlap Mystery
(Synchrotron Science)
Patricia Vickers-Rich
Great Crises in the History of Life
(Geology)
Science Club
Sir David Attenborough
Allie Ford
Communicating with Aliens
(Astrobiology)
Katie Mack
Mysterious Universe
(Cosmology)
May
Marshmallow Madness:
LabRats Engineering
Challenge
Jim Driscoll
Julie Boyce
Bang, Crash, Boom!
(Volcanology and Geology)
Sep
Kevin Chan
Everybody Dance Now!
(Robotics)
Stephen Poropat
Dinos Down Under:
Australian Cretaceous Sauropods
(Paleontology)
2014
Fighting Cancer in the Lab: Synthetic Biology and Cancer Vaccines
(Virology)
2020
Schedule of Superstar Scientists - join us at the LabRats Lair!
Observing the Universe (Astrophysics)
Sam Thiele
Volcano CSI
(Volcanology)
Schedule of Superstar Scientists who had brought us along on all sorts of adventures in past years
2016
Patrick Baker
Trees and Climate Change
(Forest Ecology)
Jul
Nicole Morton
OzGRAV & Rebecca Alllen
The Universe and Gravitational Waves
(Astrophysics)
Ros Gleadow
Cyanide and Cassava
(Botany)
2013
Tessa Charles
David Hocking
Under the Sea
(Marine Ecology)
Jasmina Lazendig-Galloway
Black Holes
(Astrophysics)
Katherine Mack
Dark Matter
(Astrophysics)
Rebecca Yee
Recycling Fish-n-Chips: Converting Waste Oil Into Biodiesel
(Chemical Engineering)
Whodunnit
(Forensic Science)
Patricia Vickers-Rich
Linden Ashcroft
Angry Atmosphere
(Climate Studies)
Jacqui Towns
Who's Who in Medical Science?
(Healthcare)
Sam Towns
Fighting Cancer with Machines
(Medical Physics)
Mar
May
Plastic Soup:
Plastics In the Port Philip Bay
The Great Solar Battery Challenge
Nov
Shageeta Jhanjee
Purely Numbers
(Mathematics)
Richard Reina
How Many Fishes in the Deep Blue Sea?
(Marine Biology)
Jun
Jonathan de Booy
Synchrotron Science and Emission Spectra
David Barnes
Big Data and Visualisation
(Astronomy and
Neuroscience)
Circuits, Coding, & Arduino Boards
(Engineering)
Ben Cowie
SeabiInfectious Diseases and Mind-Controlling Worms
(Epidemiology)
Back in the Belly of the Synchrotron
(Synchrotron Science)
Kent Wootton
Chocolate at the Synchrotron
(Synchrotron Science)
Harry Wassiti
Champions of Curiosity
They make our adventures possible
Pia Lentini
Australian Bats
(Applied Ecology)
Jenny Cuxson
The Unseen World
(Virology)
Bob Wong & Marcus Michelangeli
David Reser
The Hearing Brain
(Neuroscience)
2019
Oct
Alison Funston
Smaller Than Nano
(Nano-Chemistry)
Adrian Dyer
Life Through the Eyes of Bees
(Vision Science)
Alison Funston
Almost Invisible
(Nano-Chemistry)
Steven Siems
The Rain Maker: Cloud Seeding
(GeoEngineering)
2011
Greg Holland
Extreme Weather & Climate
(Climate Science)
Aug
2018
Michael Brown
Andrew Glenk
2012
Travels of a Bedu:
Inspiring Generations of Thinkers
Corrie Williams
Taphonomy: CSI circa 20000BC
(Paleontology)
Up Close and Personal with an Aerosonde Drone
(Engineering)
Greg Holland
Climate Change
(Atmospheric Research)
Rosalie Hocking
Catalysing Greener Fuels
(Analytical Chemistry, Materials Science)
Paul Villiers
Building Epic Wind Farms
(Engineering, Sustainability)
Zoran Vasic
Synchrotron Science
(Physics)
Allie Ford
Knock Knock, Who's Out There?
(Astrobiology)
Pierre Asselin
Linda McIver
Computing
(Computer Science)
Nicholas Price
Bionic Vision
(Neuroscience)
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
Team Swinburne SAE
Vroom! Vroom!: Mighty Machines
(Eingineering, Sustainability, Business)
Pierre Asselin
Physics in Motion
(Engineering)
Elizabeth Finkel
The Story Behind the Science
(Science Journalism)
Apr
Jul
Darryl Holland
Water Quality and Algal Blooms
(Water Studies)
Sally Haldyz
Bugs and Water Quality
(Freshwater Ecology)
Peter Trusler
The Art of Science
(Paleoillustration)
Yulia Shuvalova
A 500 Million Years Long Adventure
(Geology/Paleontology)
Nov
Pierre Asselin
Sustainable Buildings: Melbourne's Council House 2
(Engineering)
Dean Morris, Joel Trewhella, Nick Rae
Inside the Belly of the Synchrotron Beast
(Synchrotron Science)
Kent Wootton
A Million Times Brighter Than The Sun
(Synchrotron Science)