The Forrest Research Foundation

Our researchers

Alumni
Creative
Alexander Turley
Composition
Alex Turley is an Australian composer and collaborative artist whose music is performed around the world. In 2022 he was Young Composer-in-Residence...
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Callan Wood
Accreting galactic stellar-mass black holes, relativistic jets, radio astronomy
When matter falls onto a black hole, huge amounts of energy are liberated, which is often redirected into the form of powerful relativistic outflows...
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Celina Burkholz
Marine biology
Celina’s PhD project will assess the adaptive capacity of kelp forests in a changing climate. Kelp forests are among the most productive ecosystems...
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Dawid Makosa
Epigenetics
Dawid is a molecular biologist from Poland mainly interested in the biology of aging and single cell brain epigenomics. In his PhD research project,...
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Dr Adam Wdowiak
Synthetic organic chemistry
Adam is studying synthetic organic chemistry and will be creating a new class of electron-rich compounds called heterotriangulenes. Novel chemical...
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Dr Akila Balachandran
Targeted cancer therapies
Dr Balachandran’s study was focused on the development of novel synthetic nucleic acids for cancer cell targeted therapy and also for the early...
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Alumni
Dr Alfred Tiley
Astrophysics
Alfred’s research explored the properties of star-forming galaxies over the last 10 billion years to help explain how galaxies have grown and...
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Alumni
Dr Ana Motta
History and archaeology
Ana’s research focused on the analysis of human and animal interactions in the rock art from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, with a...
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Creative
Dr Andrea Rassell
The temporal representation of dynamic nanoscale phenomena in the moving image
Dr Andrea Rassell is a filmmaker, media artist and interdisciplinary researcher in science art. Working in nanoart — artforms that engage with...
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Dr Arman Siavashi
Hydrogen Energy Exports
Dr Arman Siahvashi, one of create’s most innovative engineers for 2019, has found a new application for his apparatus that measures the freezing...
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Alumni
Dr Arnold van Rooijen
Natural and nature-based protection against coastal flooding and erosion
Arnold’s research aims to quantify the level of protection provided by marine coastal ecosystems (e.g., mangroves forests, seagrass meadows and...
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Dr Asja Kroeger
Computational chemistry
From the production of plastics to the synthesis of pharmaceuticals – around 90% of today’s industrial chemical processes are driven by...
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