Dr Noushin Nasiri has won the inaugural ECR showcase!

This showcase - a new endeavour to exhibit the depth and breadth of early career research to the wider MQ community - saw three academics from each faculty  tasked with pitching their research and its potential impact (in just five minutes and with no more than four slides) to a broad audience, including both academic and non-academic panellists. After a rigorous process of proceeding from application to the Showcase itself, Noushin was crowned both Faculty Winner for Science and Engineering and Overall Showcase Winner!

This 2019 NSW Tall Poppy (and newly announced Superstar of STEM!) has had an impressive year. As head of the NanoTech Lab, she and her team are making incredibly exciting discoveries in nanomaterials and micro-devices that are set to have big impacts in areas like health, energy and the environment.

Noushin’s wearable sun exposure detector made big news earlier this year, and in the Showcase she presented another exciting innovation that has been years in the making – a breathalyser that could potentially detect diseases including cancer and diabetes in their earliest stages.