Ten early-career researchers from Australia will be heading to Lindau, Germany this year to attend the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
The 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, dedicated to chemistry and held from 29 June to 4 July 2025, is expected to bring together over 30 Nobel Laureates and 630 young scientists from 84 countries.
The Australian delegation's participation in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings is proudly supported through the Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) and administered by the Australian Academy of Science (AAS).
The SIEF-AAS Lindau Fellows receive a grant to enable their attendance at the event and to take part in the SIEF Research Innovation Tour in Berlin, showcasing some of Germany's finest research and development facilities related to chemistry.
The delegation will be led by Academy Fellow and Foreign Secretary Professor Frances Separovic.
The 10 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers selected to attend the 2025 meeting are:
- Ms Jess Algar of the Australian National University, who is working to enhance the complexity of biomimetic metallo-supramolecular architectures through improving access to interlocked architectures and light-responsive assemblies
- Dr Saheli Biswas of CSIRO, who is researching green hydrogen production via high-temperature solid oxide electrolysis technology and commercialisation of the technology
- Ms Made Ganesh Darmayanti of Monash University, whose research is on reversible-addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymers and carrageenan-based membranes for CO2 gas capture
- Mr Damon de Clercq of the University of New South Wales, whose research employs ultrafast light pulses and magnetic fields to better understand processes in the next generation of solar cell materials
- Ms Jess de la Perrelle of the University of South Australia, who is working on next-generation devices for wireless neural communication with light, with particular emphasis on the chemical and physical mechanisms of neural modulation by organic semiconductors
- Dr Wenchao Duan of CSIRO, who is developing user-friendly, machine learning-driven electrochemical sensors for water quality monitoring and food safety testing
- Dr Elena Gorenskaia of Curtin University, whose research focuses on developing miniaturised electrochemical sensors based on ionic liquids and poly(ionic) liquids for detecting water contaminants
- Dr Tuan Sang Tran of Griffith University, whose research is focused on understanding light-matter interactions at the interfaces between 2D materials to drive advances in flexible optomechanical sensors
- Dr Ken Aldren Usman of Deakin University's Institute for Frontier Materials, whose research centres on designing nanomaterials for sustainable applications and renewable energy
- Dr James Watson of the University of New South Wales, who is a synthetic, organometallic chemist, specialising in design of new catalysts to help enable the transition to a low- or no-carbon future.
The meeting will provide a unique opportunity for these exceptional early-career scientists to share their research, experiences and ideas, and gain inspiration from fellow emerging scientists and Nobel Laureates.
