Anjali Jaiprakash - The RoboBiologist
Anjali Jaiprakash is a RoboBiologist – bringing together biology and robotics to build better medical robots.
By bringing together her medical research background and robotic engineering, Anjali is working to improve the development of robots within medical systems. She hopes that she can help provide surgeons with affordable and precise robotic tools that enhance surgery, providing better results for patients.
Belinda Grealy - Chemical Engineer & Area Business Manager
Belinda Grealy – Area Business Manager SE Region and New Zealand – Australia, Pacific and Indonesia, Orica
Belinda manages the provision of blasting services for mining industries.
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Davina Rooney - Civil Engineer & Sustainability Manager
Davina Rooney – General Manager – Sustainability, Stockland
Davina is a sustainability manager who works with property developments and property management. Davina is passionate about finding sustainability solutions to improve the environment and create thriving communities.
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Dr Anjali Jaiprakash - Robobiologist
Dr Anjali Jaiprakash – Advance QLD Research Fellow – Medical & Healthcare Robotics, ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision, QUT
Anjali developed robotic systems to support surgeons performing knee operations. The technology can be applied to other situations including a retina diagnostic system.
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Dr Cass Hunter - Quantitative Marine Scientist
Dr Cass Hunter – Indigenous Social Ecological Researcher, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO
Cass develops tools to help support #Indigenous communities manage and plan how they are adapting to the effects of #climate change and other priority issues.
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Dr Catherine Ball - Environmental Scientist & Entrepreneur
Dr Catherine Ball – CEO & Co-founder, SheFlies, World of Drones Congress, Remote Research Ranges
Catherine works on projects where #Drones, #Robotics and #Tech meet environmental protection and more.
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Dr Jaclyn Brown - Mathematician & Digital Agriculture Research
Dr Jaclyn Brown – Senior Research Scientist, Agriculture and Food, CSIRO
Jaci develops #climate decision tools and #digital #agriculture applications to help Australian farmers plan and improve their harvests.
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Dr Jill Cainey - Climatologist & Energy Storage Expert
Dr Jill Cainey – Global Applications Director – Energy Storage, S&C Electric Australia
Jill’s career has ranged from being an atmospheric chemistry and climatology researcher to being a primary school teacher and finally to being an authority in energy storage.
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Dr Marianne Foley - Fire Safety Engineer
Dr Marianne Foley – Arup Fellow, Principal Fire Engineering, Australasian Consulting Sector Leader, Arup
Marianne works with design teams to create buildings and infrastructure that are fire-safe.
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Dr Pia Winberg - Marine Ecologist & Entrepreneur
Dr Pia Winberg – Director, CEO & Chief Scientist, Venus Shell Systems and PhycoHealth
Pia is developing marine food production systems that are sustainably integrated with the environment in collaboration with aquaculture industries.
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Dr Vanessa Rauland - Sustainability, Climate Change & Renewables Advocate
Dr Vanessa Rauland – Co-founder and CEO of ClimateClever (previously known as SimplyCarbon)
Research Fellow, Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP)
Vanessa is an #Entrepreneur and researcher focused on #decarbonising schools, low carbon urban development and community scale #renewable #energy
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Ella Gross - Water Design Engineer
Ella Gross – Design Engineer, Jacobs
Ella works on #water #infrastructure projects.
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Emily de la Peña - Civil Engineer & Entrepreneur
Emily de la Peña – Founder, Coding Kids
After working as a traffic engineer, Emily founded a company that runs computer and coding clubs in schools.
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Entrepreneurs - Dr Kate Lomas, Biophysicist & Dr Liz Williams, Chemist
Dr Kate Lomas – Co-founder, Inventor & Chief Technology Officer, Hemideina
Dr Elizabeth Williams – Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Hemideina
Kate discovered a new insect hearing organ that has inspired her to revolutionise the cochlear implant, she partnered with Liz to Co-found a MedTech start-up.
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From High School to a STEM Career
Thinking about careers and choosing which subjects to do in high school can be confusing.
Find out how STELR’s inspiring Women in STEM & Entrepreneurship found their way.
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Ivana Popovac - Systems Engineer
Ivana Popovac – Manager, Systems Engineering, Cochlear Limited
Ivana was the lead #Design #Engineer working on a next-generation cochlear implant, the first in the world to incorporate mobile phone technology.
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Ivana Popovac – Systems Engineer
Julie Shuttleworth - Metallurgist & General Manager
Julie Shuttleworth – former General Manager, Solomon Mine, now Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Fortescue Metals Group
Julie’s career in mining has gone from working as a metallurgist, extracting metal out of rock, to managing entire mine sites.
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Niki Robinson - Environmental Engineer & Water Regulation
Niki Robinson – Manager of Water and Sewerage Infrastructure Regulation, Office of the Technical Regulator, Department of Premier and Cabinet, South Australia
Niki works on technical regulation of the water services industry, she is the first female President of Engineers Australia (SA).
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Sarah Last - Biologist, Inventor & Entrepreneur
Sarah Last – Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, MimicTec
Sarah is an AgTech inventor who has invented a device that encourages chick survival at early stages of life.
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Sheena Ong - Renewables Engineer
Sheena Ong – Graduate Engineer, Ekistica
Sheena works on renewable energy projects. She’s also produced a documentary and is passionate about engineering solutions for humanitarian development.
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Sonja Basson - Electrical & Electronic Engineer
Sonja Basson – former Principal Engineer – Renewable Energy, AECOM (currently Technical Director Renewables, Aurecon)
Sonja works with clients to develop and design #renewable #energy projects.
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STEM at Work
Curious about STEM careers? Be a Change Maker!
STEM is an inspiring force for solving problems in the world and making a difference to people’s lives.
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STEM Entrepreneurs
Curious about Entrepreneurship?
How to go from having an idea, to making it real?
These Women in STEM are each on their own unique journeys as entrepreneurs while also making a difference.
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