Award-winning students supported by experienced teaching staff

Our Physics and Nanotechnology group is a close-knit community of students who rely on each other and experienced lecturers to challenge students to expand their thinking.

Four of our Physics and Nanotechnology students have been awarded the Science and Innovation Studentship Award for the work they completed in collaboration with our Nanoscience Program Chair, Dr Gerrard Eddy Jai Poinern.

The Science and Innovation Studentship Award

The award is an annual grant program that allows research students to work on a project with an organisation of their choice (in the WA private sector) for 10 weeks. Students are encouraged to use creativity and innovation to broaden their professional knowledge and get valuable experience in developing and applying their own ideas.

Student Trent George-Kennedy used the grant for his project Iron Nano Particles for Use In Water Detoxification and says the biggest hurdle was the tight timeframes, but his project went relatively smoothly.

“Eddy’s my lynch-pin,” said Trent. “Without him I wouldn’t have gotten there in the first place. We’re all a pretty tight-knit group.”

Eddy is equally passionate about the work completed by his students.

“We have a very enthusiastic group of nanotech students and scientists within the Murdoch Applied Nanotechnology Research Group,” he said. “Communicating this drive and passion in scientific research to our students is very important to me and it gives me great pleasure to see their research efforts paying off after a while.”

Find out more about Nanoscience Program Chair Dr Gerrard Eddy Jai Poinern.