Of the day

Engineers Australia’s 2020 list of innovators is out, academics include.

Community: Huaiwen Leon Song (planet-scale VR) – Uni Sydney. Anusha Withana (electronic tattoo) – Uni Sydney.

Electronics and comms: Nitu Syed (piezoelectric film) – RMIT. Sruthi Kuriakose (2D nanomaterial) – RMIT.

Manufacturing and automation: Farshid Pahlevani (emissions-free phosphorous) – UNSW.

Mining, oil, gas: Jun Huang (reducing CO2 from oil refineries) – Uni Sydney.

Research and academia: Michael Mortimer (VR driving simulator) – Deakin U. Hala Zreiqat (3-D printed synthetic bone) – Uni Sydney. Behnam Akhavan (plasma coated implants) – Uni Sydney.

Utilities: Qilin Wang (zero-energy water-treatment) – UTS. Nicky Eshtiaghi (sludge pipe) RMIT.

Young engineers: James Gilbert (planet hunter) – ANU. Rona Chandrawati (nitric oxide functions) – UNSW. Wenyue Zhou (wearable UV sensors) – RMI

Of the week

Tim Bonyhady (ANU) and Greg Lehman (U Tas) win the Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History for The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania’s Black War, (National Gallery of Australia).

Jolanda Jetten (Uni Queensland) wins the European Association of Social Psychology’s lifetime achievement award.

The Snow Family Foundation announces $8m over eight years  for fellowships for early and mid-career biomedical researchers. Inaugural fellows are Marian Burr (ANU), James Hudson (QIMRBerghofer MRI) and Owen Siggs (Garvan Institute of MR).

Hai Tran will lead the South Australian government’s Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre. Mr Tran joins from WA Police, where he was chief information security officer.