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
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
Caroline Tiddy
2022 Superstar of STEM
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.
Shihong Xu
Winner of Norton Jackson Material Science and Engineering Medal - for his thesis “Improving the floatability of oxidized pyrite”.
Principle supervisor Bill Skinner.
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
Bill Skinner
Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy’ section of Minerals Journal.
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
Linda Rozenberga
PhD candidate, awarded the Hunter Healy Award from the Australasian Colloid and Interface Society.
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.
Associate Professor Caroline Tiddy
2022 Superstar of STEM
Dr Zoe Doubleday
2022 winner of the ATSE ICM Agrifood Award
Professor Bill Skinner
Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy’ section of Minerals Journal
Mr Soren Soe - MinEx CRC
Finalists in the Excellence in Science and Industry Collaboration category of the SA Science Awards
Dr Kamil Zuber
UniSA staff graduate from the Defence Industry Leadership Program
Dr Zoe Doubleday
2022 FII Director's Senior Research Award
Marina Lewis
2022 FII Director's Service Award
John Denman
2022 FII Director's Technical Support Award
Jenna McDowell
2022 FII Director's Professional Support Award