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."
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!"
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."
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."
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."
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."
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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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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!"
PhD candidate at the University College London, UK
Spoke at the British Society for Immunology Congress in Brighton, UK
"The most important thing is that as a scientist, I always want to do something and have a direct impact. It’s also a privilege to connect with people, through international collaborations and funding opportunities."