Impactful research is at the core of The Future Industries Institute. We are very proud of our staff and students as they continue to deliver research excellence.
We look forward to continuing to celebrate the achievements of our FII community. Below is a list of achievements from our staff and students.
Images of Research - winners & finalists
Early Career Researcher Award – Dr George Abaka-Wood
Student Award – Stephanie MacWilliams
Service Award – Liz Melville & Belinda Turner
Research Support Award – Dr Alex Cavallaro
EMCR Committee Members – Dr Richmond Asamoah: Chair, Dr Hanif Haidari: Co-Chair, Dr Chris Desire: Secretary, Dr Farzana Kastury: Treasure, Dr Ainslie Derrick-Roberts: Co-Treasurer, Dr Jing Zhang: Organising Secretary, Dr Mohammad hossein Hassanshahi: Co-Organising Secretary, Dr Adrienne Brotodewo: Social Media Manager
Alex Cavallaro
Part of the PowerApps Team who won the Technical Team award at the 2023 STEM / FII Awards Celebrating Success.
Sruthi Choppalli
First place winner of the 2023 FII Seminar Series.
Jessica Frahn
Winner of one of the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Postgraduate Research Award (PGRA).
Jessica Frahn
Elected as a Student Representative for the 2023 ANSTO Australian Synchrotron User Advisory Committee (UAC).
Matthew Griffith
Awarded the David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology Award for 2023.
Bin Guan
Awarded Third Place for the IEEE Sensors 2023 Best Paper Award, “A Pump-Free Optofluidic Biosensing Platform Based on Whispering Gallery Mode Microsheres”.
Hanif Haidari, Zlatko Kopecki & Allison Cowin
Awarded the 2023 Best Paper Award by the journal Anitbiotics, in recognition of the outstanding publication “pH-Responsive “Smart” Hydrogel for Controlled Delivery of Silver Nanoparticles to Infected Wounds” for its originality, significance, citations, and downlaods. published in Antibiotics MDPI.
Colin Hall
Awarded the Ray Reynoldson Medal from Materials Australia.
Sofia Hassiotis
Winner of the Technical award at the 2023 STEM / FII Awards Celebrating Success.
Andrew Hatem
Winner of the Best Poster Award at the APICAM2023 Conference in Sydney.
Kiralee Janusaitis
Winner of the Animal Ethics Award, under ‘Research and Enterprise’ in the 2023 Unstoppable Awards.
Farzana Kastury
Winner in the Winnovation Awards; in the Rural, Regional & Remote category.
Farzana Kastury
Winner of the Inaugural Society of Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry (SETAC-AU) Photo Compition in the ‘Lab Category’ with “Breathing fire”.
Stephanie MacWilliams
Winner of the Higher Degree Researcher award, under ‘Research and Enterprise’ in the 2023 Unstoppable Awards.
Jenna McDowell
Winner of the Professional Staff award at the 2023 STEM / FII Awards Celebrating Success.
Binoy Sarkar
Became a Highly Cited Researcher 2023, as identified by ClarivateTM
Pratishtah Sobrun
Second place winner of the 2023 FII Seminar Series.
Xanthe Strudwick
Winner of the 2023 SA Young Tall Poppy Science Award.
Mohamed Taha Amen
Third place winner of the 2023 FII Seminar Series.
Caroline Tiddy
Winner in the Winnovation Awards; in the Maths & Data category.
Belinda Turner
Awarded the 2023 Frater and Career Development award for her work for the NanoCamp/Nanoscience Event Training.
Yida Wang
Winner of Ian Wark Research Medal - for his thesis “Energy management in interfacial solar evaporation systems”.
Principle supervisor Haolan Xu
Stephen Warren-Smith
Winner of the Mid-Career Researcher award at the 2023 STEM / FII Awards Celebrating Success
Pan Wu
Winner of Norton Jackson Material Science and Engineering Medal - for his thesis “Interfacial Solar Driven Evaporation for Soil Remediation”.
Principle supervisor Gary Owens
Haolan Xu
Winner of the Ralston Medal for 2023 for his paper ‘All-Cold Evaporation under One Sun with Zero Energy Loss by Using a Heatsink Inspired Solar Evaporator’.
Engagement Award for working on the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) Project Round 14 "Advanced recovery of the battery materials and REE from ores and wastes"
- Richmond Asamoah, Dr Pavel Spiridonov (InnovEco Australia), Joe Mifsud (COOE Pty Ltd), Gennadiy Sukhinin (InnovEco Australia), Dr George Abaka-Wood (UniSA-FII), A/Prof Larissa Statsenko (UniSA-STEM), Prof Jonas Addai-Mensah (UniSA-FII), Prof William Skinner (UniSA-FII))
Senior Research Award – Zoe Doubleday
Junior Research Award – Hanif Haidari
Student Award – Jake Atkinson
Service Award – Marina Lewis
Research Support Award – Xanthe Strudwick
Technical Support Award – John Denman
Professional Support Award – Joint winners: Jenna McDowell & Kate Cameron
Zoe Doubleday
2022 winner of the ATSE ICM Agrifood Award
Click here to see a video of Dr Zoe Doubleday speaking about her research on seafood provenance, and her acceptance of the award.
Drew Evans and Eliza Switalska
Part of the group that won the Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Award in the Environment and Sustainability category for their work on the SmartSat project – SatCom IoT-enabled Automatic Ground Water Collection and Aggregation Pilot (SIG Water) Project.
MinEx CRC
Finalists in the Excellence in Science and Industry Collaboration category of the SA Science Awards for the Delamerian NDI Drilling Campaign.
Piotr Pawiliszak
Winner of Ian Wark Research Medal - for his thesis “Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions at Fluid-Liquid Interfaces: from Fundamentals to Application”.
Principle supervisor Marta Krasowska
Linda Rozenberga
PhD candidate, awarded the Hunter Healy Award from the Australasian Colloid and Interface Society.
Bill Skinner
Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy’ section of Minerals Journal.
Caroline Tiddy
2022 Superstar of STEM
Shihong Xu
Winner of Norton Jackson Material Science and Engineering Medal - for his thesis “Improving the floatability of oxidized pyrite”.
Principle supervisor Bill Skinner.
Kamil Zuber
Dr Kamil Zuber is one of the most recent UniSA graduates of the Defence Industry Leadership Program hosted by the Defence Teaming Centre. The prestigious program sees future leaders from defence and defence industry developing their leadership skills and professional network in the complex context of defence.
Dr George Abaka-Wood
2023 Early Career Researcher Award
Stephanie MacWilliams
2023 Student Award
Liz Melville & Belinda Turner
2023 Service Award
Dr Alex Cavallaro
2023 Research Support Award
Dr Adrienne Brotodewo, Dr Ainslie Derrick-Roberts, Dr Hanif Haidari, Dr Farzana Kastury
Absent: Dr Richmond Asamoah, Dr Chris Desire, Dr Jing Zhang, Dr Mohammad hossein Hassanshahi
2023 EMCR Committee Members
Sruthi Choppalli (1st place) | Pratishtah Sobrun (2nd place) | Mohamed Taha Amen (3rd place)
2023 FII Seminar Series
Jessica Frahn
2023 Student Representative for the ANSTO Australian Synchrotron User Advisory Committee (UAC)
Associate Professor Matthew Griffith
2023 David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology Award
Dr Bin Guan
2023 Best Paper Award, 3rd Place
Andre Hatem
2023 Best Poster Award at the APICAM2023 Conference in Sydney
Kiralee Janusaitis
2023 Unstoppable Awards - Animal Ethics Award
Dr Farzana Kastury
2023 Winnovation Award; in the Rural, Regional & Remote category
Stephanie MacWilliams
2023 Unstoppable Awards - Higher Degree Research Award
Jenna McDowell
2023 Professional Staff Award
Dr Xanthe Strudwick
2023 SA Young Tall Poppy Science Award
Caroline Tiddy
2023 Unstoppable Awards - Maths & Data
Dr Stephen Warren-Smith
2023 Mid-Career Researcher Award
John Denman
2022 FII Director's Technical Support Award
Dr Zoe Doubleday
2022 winner of the ATSE ICM Agrifood Award
Dr Zoe Doubleday
2022 FII Director's Senior Research Award
Marina Lewis
2022 FII Director's Service Award
Jenna McDowell
2022 FII Director's Professional Support Award
Professor Bill Skinner
2022 Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy’ section of Minerals Journal
Mr Soren Soe - MinEx CRC
2022 Finalists in the Excellence in Science and Industry Collaboration category of the SA Science Awards
Associate Professor Caroline Tiddy
2022 Superstar of STEM
Dr Kamil Zuber
2022 UniSA staff graduate from the Defence Industry Leadership Program