The Society’s 2024 Awards for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers were presented at a ceremony kindly hosted by the University of Technology on the evening of Wednesday, 5 March 2025.

The evening was introduced by Professor Christian Turney, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor Sally Cripps, Director (Technology) of the Human Technology Institute at UTS, with the awards ceremony and presentations being compered by renowned ABC science journalist and presenter of the ABC Science Show, Robyn Williams AO FRSN, who introduced each of the awards winners and interviewed them on their research following their presentations. The Society’s President, Dr Susan Pond AM FRSN, presented the awards.

Those presenting were:

• Mr David Sweeney, University of Sydney (Jak Kelly Award) — Finding the Galactic Underworld: the hunt for stellar corpses
• Mr Muyang Li, University of Sydney (Scholarship Winner) — Measuring and correcting instance-dependent error in semi-supervised learning
• Mr Joel Sved, University of Sydney (Scholarship Winner) — Machine Learning Assisted Optimisation of Integrated Silicon Photonic Circuits
• Ms Linqing Tian, UNSW Sydney (Scholarship Winner) — Nanoparticles and Drug Discovery
• Dr Fei Deng UNSW Sydney (Early Career Researcher Citation) — Advances in CRISPR-based Diagnostics
• Dr Jennifer Matthews, University of Technology Sydney (Early Career Researcher Citation) — The Coral Diet: symbiosis, supplements, and survival
• Dr Cynthia Turnbull, Australian National University (Early Career Researcher Citation) — Modifying the immune system one protein at a time

Further information about the presenters and their talks is available from the website event notice.

A gallery of images from the occasion is available from the preceding link and offline recordings of each of the presentations is available from our YouTube channel.