Australian Museum Eureka Prizes
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Celebrating excellence in Australian science. This year's winners were announced on 4 September.
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Congratulations to the 2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prize winners! Their contributions are not only enhancing our lives today, but building a resilient, sustainable world for the future. View the full list:
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Dr Li’s work leverages high-performance computing and terabyte-sized databases to navigate the world’s international trade network. We sat down with the 2024 Eureka Prizes Outstanding Early Career Researcher to ask her some questions. Learn more here:
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Congratulations to Professor @VeenaSahajwalla AO who has been honoured with a Medal of the Order of Australia. Veena has been awarded not one - but two - Eureka Prizes for her work. In this interview, she shares why her work is critical to our future.
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Scarlett and Sophia are no strangers to the Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize, but they levelled it up a notch this year. In this blog post, they explain how they landed on this topic, and share advice for students thinking about entering the competition.
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Professor Euan Ritchie took home the 2024 Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science. Here, he talks about striking the right balance across his varied work, what he is most proud of to date, and what he hopes to achieve in the future.
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In this blog post, Sleek Geeks primary school winner Cate talks all things thermodynamics, tells us about her favourite experiment, and shares what she was thinking as she made her way to the stage at the 2024 Eureka Prizes Award Ceremony.
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Iestyn is the winner of the 2024 Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize – Secondary, beating hundreds of other students to claim the top prize! In this blog, he shares his film-making process and the most interesting thing he learnt during his research.
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The ACRF Australian Centre of Excellence in Melanoma Imaging and Diagnosis leads efforts to improve early detection and build a national targeted melanoma screening program. It's no wonder this team won a 2024 Eureka Prize! Read more about their work:
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Hear from the youngest Sleek Geek finalist represented at the 2024 Eureka Prizes. In this blog post, Ayra shares her favourite part of the journey, what she explored in her research, and what the most challenging parts of creating her film were.
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We asked winner of the 2024 Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader, Dr Jiao Jiao Li, about her motivation to help others build their careers, the most challenging aspects of her research, and what winning a Eureka Prize means to her. Read her responses here:
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The 2025 Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize theme is 'above and below' 🦋🐛✈️⚓ This theme has been selected for its wide scope of interpretation. There are no right or wrong answers, so aim high and dive deep to uncover the topic that speaks to you!
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The @austmus Eureka Prizes are made possible through the ongoing support of our prize partners: @ANSTO #AIDRC @ARDC_AU @BizEventsPerth @BotanicSydney Celestino @DefenceAust @Macquarie_Uni @ScienceGovAU @Sydney_Science @Sydney_Uni @UNSW @UTSResearch
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🏆 Distinguished Professor Calum Drummond AO @RMIT @ResearchRMIT is awarded the Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science. #EurekaPrizes Learn more:
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Brian Hartzer, President of the Australian Museum Trust, delivers a closing address on the excellence we have seen across all categories this year.
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RT @LSharpeUSYD: “Working with early career researchers is the best part of my job, so I don’t need a prize for that.” But Kate Jolliffe,…
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RT @Science_Academy: Congratulations to Academy Fellow Professor @kate_jolliffe who has been awarded the @UTSresearch Eureka Prize for Outs…
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🏆 Professor David Keith @UNSW is awarded the @BotanicSydney #AIBS Eureka Prize for Excellence in Botanical Science. #EurekaPrizes Learn more:
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RT @DrEmmaLJohnston: And the #EurekaPrizes award for #interdisciplinaryresearch goes to the remarkable Australian Centre of Excellence in #…
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🏆 Professor @kate_jolliffe @Sydney_Uni @Sydney_Science is awarded the @UTSResearch Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Researchers. #EurekaPrizes Learn more:
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RT @UQDRC: The @MelanomaACEMID team has won the @eurekaprizes for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research!!!🏆 Huge congratulations to @hpso…
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