Michael Eze
October 2019 WINNER

Michael Eze

PhD student from Macquarie University, Australia, who specialises in contaminant remediation.

Presented at the AAPG 2020 Annual Convention and Exhibition in Houston, Texas, US.

Rushanka Amrutkar
January 2019 WINNER

Rushanka Amrutkar

Satellite remote sensing specialist at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Presented at Women in Space 2019 Scottsdale, Arizona

"I have a microbioligcal background so my main goal is towards life exploration on extraterrestrial planets. So I want amalgamate both, my microbiology and space research technology expertise into it - astrobiology."

Tuki Attuquayefio
March 2019 WINNER

Tuki Attuquayefio

Researcher at Yale University, USA

Attending the Neuroimaging and Modulation in Obesity and Diabetes Research 10th Anniversary Meeting in Maryland, USA

"What I love most about science is that I never stop learning and discovering new things about the world, and about humans. My goal is to love what I do and do what I love – science!"

Ioulia Tzouvadaki
February 2019 WINNER

Ioulia Tzouvadaki

Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southampton, UK

Attending the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Sapporo, Japan in 2019

"I was always very curious to understand how everything around me worked. And every time I was looking in the electron microscope, I was feeling like Alice in Wonderland, seeing this little things, zooming into this nano-world."

Lap Hing Chi
September 2019 WINNER

Lap Hing Chi (Leo)

PhD student at Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, Australia, studying human genetics and how they affect our chances of developing a disorder.

Presented at the 9th Barossa Meeting 2019 - Cell Signalling in Cancer Medicine from 12th - 15th November 2019 in Barossa Valley, Adelaide, Australia.

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November 2018 WINNER

Jayshri Dumbre

PhD student at Monash University, Australia

Presented at the TMS 2019 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas, USA

"I want my career to be science, that was very clear from the young age - I was the first engineer in my entire village."

September 2018 WINNER

Rohan Shah

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Presented at ANBUG-AINSE Neutron Scattering Symposium 2018 in Sydney

"The Researcher Prize shows that you are being recognised and people are appreciating that you are doing some good work."

Are you a PhD or postdoc keen to share your research at a conference?

Sparrho is offering grants of £300 for PhD students and postdocs in any field of science and engineering, at any institute, to attend an academic conference of their choice in the coming 12 months.
Email our team at ask@sparrho.com if you have any questions.

1. Tell us about your research in <300 words and which conference you're going to

Deadlines are on a rolling basis so submit your application by the end of this month to be in the running for the next Prize.

2. Curate papers relevant to your research on Sparrho's platform

Your submitted application becomes the starting point of your very own Sparrho pinboard for you to showcase your scientific interests and expertise.

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3. Share your completed pinboard and let us know with @sparrho

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Our Sparrho Heroes and their stories

November 2017 WINNER

Brenton Hordacre

Research Fellow at the University of South Australia

Attended the 10th World Congress for NeuroRehabilitation in Mumbai, India

"My passion is to improve our understanding of the brain to help tailor individual therapies to patients, so that they can make a more complete recovery and enjoy life."

JULY 2017 WINNER

Tania Warnakulasuriya, PhD

Lecturer at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

Speaking at the 4th International Conference on Radioecology and Environmental Radioactivity in Berlin, Germany in Sep 2017

"Keep an open mind and try to learn from each speaker at the conference, as they must be as passionate about their area of research as you are about yours."

September 2017 WINNER

Linda Zhang, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University, USA

Presenting at the Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation, and Related Diseases Conference in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in Oct 2017

"Attending a conference? Begin with a simple goal to learn three things, ask three questions and meet three people."

JULY 2017 WINNER

Aaron Pearlman

PhD student at the California Institute of Technology, USA

Speaking at the 232nd American Astronomical Society Meeting in Denver, USA in Jun 2018

"My research aims to use pulsars as probes of the most extreme physics in the universe."

AUGUST 2017 WINNER

Emeka Ogbuju

PhD Student and Lecturer at Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria

Presenting at Data for Policy 2017: Government by Algorithm? in London, UK in Sep 2017

"I want to solve problems. I grew up in Nigeria, a developing country full of challenges. I believe that scientific solutions will help in the growth and development of the country."

David Perez Guaita, PhD

Research fellow at Monash University, Australia

Speaking at Spec 2018 in Glasgow, UK in Jun 2018

"Go there and feel the joy of meeting people as enthusiastic as you are! And do not panic if your research is challenged by your friends, it is part of the science game."

Vivian Mendez

Research fellow at Macquarie University, Australia

Spoke at the 10th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance7 in in Tapachula, Mexico

"I feel a great sense of achievement when findings of our research are used in decision-making processes by the Australian government."

Tobias Keil

PhD Student at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich, Germany

Presenting at the 11th World Meeting on Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology in Granada, Spain in Feb 2018

"For life beyond science it is simply fun to discover different cultures, customs and of course, new friends."

Sofia Bartlett

PhD student at the University of New South Wales, Australia

Speaking at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, USA in Mar 2018

"My research has the ability to revolutionise the way that we carry out surveillance of infectious diseases, allowing us to develop new systems to predict who will get sick before it happens!"