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Meet Wen Hu: IoT expert

March 14, 2021   /   COVID-19, Featured, News, Participants, Profiles, Projects

For UNSW Associate Professor and networked embedded sensor expert Wen Hu, automated farms supplying ‘smart cities’ with premium fresh food are the way of the future. And IoT systems are paving the way to this new, networked reality.

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Gehan Abdelghany: exploring uses for native crops from the Nile to Northern Australia

March 10, 2021   /   News, Profiles, Projects

Appointed to the ‘Commercialising native rice project’ early in 2020, CRC PhD student and beneficial indigenous-species expert Gehan Abdelghany is working on the theoretical component of her doctorate from Egypt while she waits for travel bans to lift.

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Meet Pat Spicer: complex fluids and nanomaterials expert

February 18, 2021   /   News, Profiles

UNSW Associate Professor Pat Spicer’s broad-ranging career spans industry, academia and two continents. The constants? Complex fluids and collaboration.

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Meet Gal Winter: microbial ecology expert

December 11, 2020   /   News, Profiles

For Dr Gal Winter, lecturer and microbiologist at northern NSW’s University of New England, studying the ecology of microbe colonies – most recently, those surrounding tomato plant roots – has been a cross-continental endeavour.

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Meet Chris Lehnert: automation and robotics expert

November 26, 2020   /   News, Profiles, Projects

QUT-based robotics engineer Dr Chris Lehnert specialises in solving commercial automation challenges, developing novel solutions for an array of real-world applications. Right now, he’s developing components for high-tech vertical farm modules in a CRC collaboration with Greenbio.

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Meet Priti Krishna: sustainable cropping expert

October 27, 2020   /   News, Participants, Profiles

For Priti Krishna, Foundation Chair of Sustainable Agriculture at Western Sydney University and lead researcher on the CRC’s Blueberry nutritional optimisation project, it’s not just about growing better crops; it’s about growing crops better.

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Phil Thomas: Seeking the microbial edge in hydroponic tomatoes

October 26, 2020   /   News, Profiles, Projects

For this IT-pro-turned-UNE-microbiology post-grad, the chance to study the root microbiome of greenhouse-grown tomatoes with Costa Group under the CRC was one too good to refuse.

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Meet Dr Elaine Holmes: Microbiome-diet expert

September 24, 2020   /   News, Participants, Profiles

This brilliant scientist was the first in her family to attend university. But for Elaine Holmes, world-leading metabolic scientist, WA Premier’s Research Fellow and recent recipient of a prestigious Australian Laureate ARC Fellowship, academia proved a natural fit.

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Meet Sagadevan Mundree: tropical pulses expert

August 26, 2020   /   News, Participants, Profiles

Queensland University of Technology Professor Sagadevan Mundree is an expert in the fields of biochemistry and cell biology, agricultural and industrial biotechnology, and tropical crops – notably pulses. He also loves to hike.

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Meet Sami Kara: advanced manufacturing expert

July 29, 2020   /   News, Participants, Profiles

For UNSW’s Professor Sami Kara, sustainable manufacturing is a key to future prosperity and a cleaner, greener planet. Scientica Education Fellow and Director of Vertically Integrated Projects in the University of New South Wales’ Faculty of Engineering, Sami isn’t one to silo […]

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