American Scholar Awards
DR JENNIFER ALBERT Fulbright Scholar Award
Funded by the University of Canberra
Home: Citadel Military College of South Carolina
Host: University of Canberra
Field: Education
Jennifer received her Ph.D. in Science Education from North Carolina State University and has an M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction from Austin Peay State University. She specializes in STEM education research and evaluation with an emphasis on K-16 computer science education, science education, educational assessment, and teacher professional development. She is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the STEM Center of Excellence at The Citadel.
Her Fulbright project will investigate how students who have participated in the ELSA project use the Experience, Represent, and Apply model when interacting with Mobile Maker Kits, demonstrating transfer of skills and content learned.
PROFESSOR MATTHEW BECKER, PHD Fulbright Scholar Award
Funded by Curtin University
Home: California State University Long Beach
Host: Curtin University
Field: Geoscience
Matt is a Professor of Geological Sciences at California State University, Long Beach, and holds the Bert and Ethel Conrey Chair in Hydrogeology. He has spent much of his career understanding how groundwater flows through complex geologic systems, and its implications for groundwater pollution, geothermal energy extraction, and coastal ecosystems.
For his Fulbright Scholarship, Matt will work with researchers at Curtin University to develop groundwater resources in the bedrock of Western Australia. A particular focus will be managed aquifer recharge and the use of fiber optic distributed sensing tools for characterizing and monitoring the storage and movement of groundwater.
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PROFESSOR MARY BRYDON-MILLER
Fulbright
Scholar Award
Funded by the University of Technology Sydney
Home: University of Louisville
Host: University of Technology Sydney
Field: Design, Architecture and Building
Mary is Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville. She is a participatory researcher who conducts work in school, organization, and community settings. She is the editor, with David Coghlan, of the SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research. Her most recent book with Sarah Banks is Ethics in Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being: Cases and Commentaries. She is currently working on an international middle-school citizen science project focused on global climate change education. She is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Fulbright Scholar Award at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Mary's Fulbright research explores the knowledge, values, and behaviors of young people related to sustainability and climate change action. The research will provide youth aged eleven to fourteen with opportunities to learn about climate change by designing and implementing a projectbased learning experience using an educational action research approach.
DR CAYELAN
CAREY
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Virginia Tech
Host: University of Western Australia
Field: Ecology
Cayelan is an Associate Professor of freshwater ecosystem science at Virginia Tech, where she leads a research lab that integrates ecology, engineering, and data science to study lake and reservoir water quality.
As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Cayelan will collaborate with the Aquatic EcoDynamics research group at the University of Western Australia to develop a water quality forecasting system for Australian reservoirs. Her research aims to improve drinking water management in Australia and the U.S. by providing water utilities with probabilistic forecasts of future water conditions, thereby enabling managers to anticipate and preempt impairment. Cayelan's overarching goal is to create new forecasting tools that will increase freshwater ecosystem resilience and the security of the water supply in the face of increasingly variable environmental conditions.
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"My Fulbright research explores the knowledge, values, and behaviors of young people related to sustainability and climate change action. The research will provide youth ages eleven to fourteen with opportunities to learn about climate change by designing and implementing a project-based learning experience using an educational action research approach."
PROFESSOR H. HARRINGTON “BO” CLEVELAND Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The Pennsylvania State University
Host: Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
Field: Human Development and Psychologiy
Bo is a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He researches the psychological and social processes that contribute to recovery from addiction. He and his collaborators have used Ecological Momentary Assessment strategies (e.g., smartphone data collection) to investigate within and between-day variation in the intra-personal states and social processes that support recovery.
As a Fulbright Scholar, he will work with Dr. Dan Lubman, Professor of Addiction Studies and Services at Monash University. Together with Dr. Lubman and his team, Bo will investigate how technology can be used to better understand and intervene on the daily behavioral and social choices that help build and sustain recovery among substance-dependent individuals.
DR AMANDA DENES Fulbright Scholar Award
Home: University of Connecticut
Host: Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
Field: Communication
Amanda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Connecticut. She specializes in the study of interpersonal, sexual, and health communication, with a focus on communication processes related to maintaining successful relationships and the role of biology in understanding communication behavior. Taken together, her research aims to identify communication practices and processes in close relationships that contribute to people’s physical, psychological, and relational health.
As a Fulbright Scholar at the Translational Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University, Amanda will explore how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (LGBTIQ+), and heterosexual couples, in which one partner is in treatment for cancer, communicate about the effects of cancer on their relationship. The goal of the project is to identify the specific forms of communication that contribute to individual and interpersonal well-being when managing the relational and sexual changes that accompany cancer and its treatment.
Funded by the University of Canberra
Home: Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business City University of New York
Host: Faculty of Law and Faculty of Health, University of Canberra
Field: U.S. and Australian Sports Law
Marc is a tenured professor of law at the City University of New York, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business, where he teaches and writes in the areas of sports law, antitrust law, intellectual property law, and fantasy sports / gambling law. Marc is regularly cited by the media about how the Sherman Antitrust Act applies to professional sports leagues, how gaming laws apply to fantasy sports contests, and how both antitrust and labor laws apply to the rights to college athletes. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and cum laude graduate of Michigan Law School, Marc began his professional career by practicing sports and antitrust law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP. Thereafter, he practiced sports and intellectual property law at Dewey Ballantine LLP.
Marc's research as a Fulbright Scholar will focus on a comparative analysis of the regulation of U.S. and Australian sports entities, and best practices for ensuring the physical, mental, and economic wellbeing of commercial athletes.
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MARC EDELMAN Fulbright Scholar Award
PROFESSOR LEVON T. ESTERS
Fulbright Scholar Award
Funded by the Regional Universities Network of Australia
Home: Purdue University
Host: University of Southern Queensland
Field: Agricultural Sciences Education
Levon is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication at Purdue University. Levon also serves as the Director of the Mentoring@Purdue (M@P) program which is designed to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities (URMs) receiving advanced post-secondary STEM-based agricultural and life sciences degrees in Purdue University’s College of Agriculture. Levon’s research focuses broadly on issues of educational equity and access of underrepresented minorities with a concentration on the mentoring of graduate students of color. As a Fulbright Scholar, Levon will examine the role and potentiality of Agricultural Career Education as a strategy to enhance the tertiary and career prospects of youth and adults in the regional, rural, and remote (RRR) areas of Australia. During Levon’s Fulbright experience, he will be collaborating with the Australian Collaboratory for Career, Employability, and Learning for Living (ACCELL) at the University of Southern Queensland.
PREETY GADHOKE
Fulbright Scholar Award
Funded by the University of Technology Sydney
Home: St. John's University
Host: University of Technology Sydney
Field: Global Health
Preety is passionate about achieving global health equity through structural interventions by applying social justice and human rights lenses for marginalized, underserved populations. As a tenured Associate Professor of Public Health at St. John’s University, she works at the intersectionality of social determinants of health, food and nutrition, and sustainable development.
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires, she will use her Fulbright Scholarship in Global Health to work on a food access research project at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Over the course of four months, she will establish new research collaborations with ISF partners to inform policy action for sustainable urban food systems and chronic disease prevention in Sydney, Australia. As a Fulbright Scholar, Preety’s goal is to build expertise that supports work on structural dimensions of nutrition and health outcomes, and be a leader in emergent global health issues.
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"...It is the task of education, more than any other instrument of foreign policy to help close the dangerous gap between the economic and technological interdependence of the people of the world and their psychological, political and spiritual alienation."
- Senator J. William Fulbright
From Prospects for the West
DR HEATHER A. HOLMES
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of Utah
Host: University of Melbourne
Field: Engineering
Heather is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah and has an interdisciplinary background that includes mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, and atmospheric science. Her research group uses ground-based sensors, atmospheric models, and satellite remote sensing to investigate atmospheric physics, air pollution sources, transport and dispersion, and provide data for human health and public policy assessments.
She will spend her Fulbright Scholarship in the School of Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne and will collaborate with faculty in atmospheric and environmental sciences. Heather is interested in working with scientists in Australia to improve wildfire smoke transport modeling, with a focus on developing new atmospheric turbulence models that are used in models to forecast wildfire smoke transport. Her goal is to establish long-term collaborations with the aim of improving models used in air quality warning systems that protect people living in fire prone areas.
PROFESSOR DR ZHIHUA JIANG
Fulbright Scholar Award
Funded by the Regional Universities Network of Australia
Home: Washington State University
Host: University of New England
Field: Animal Genetics and Genomics
Zhihua is a full professor of genome biology in the Animal Sciences Department at Washington State University. He also serves as the Hatch Program Chair to promote research and education in Animal Biology and Biomedicine. Zhihua’s current research focuses on how genes use alternative transcripts in response to internal, external and universal environments, thus improving functional annotation of animal genomes. The ultimate goal of these studies is to understand how a finite genome coordinates an infinite phenome to benefit an animal’s performance, health and wellbeing.
As a Fulbright Scholar to Australia, Zhihua will learn new knowledge and skills about big data sciences from colleagues at University of New England. The proposed research aims to explore the central dogmas of quantitative and molecular genetics and thus advance genomic selection and design to the next level.
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"My Fulbright research aims to explore the central dogmas of quantitative and molecular genetics and thus advance genomic selection and design to the next level."
NEGAR KATIRAI Fulbright Scholar Award
Funded by the University of Technology Sydney
Home: University of Arizona
Host: University of Technology Sydney
Field: Law & Domestic Violence
Negar directs a Domestic Violence Law Clinic where she supervises law students in providing legal representation to survivors of intimate partner violence. She also teaches Family Law and often guest lectures in other courses on related topics, including trauma-informed legal representation. Her scholarship investigates questions in intimate partner violence law, and seeks to promote conversation between practitioners and academics. While in Australia, Negar will be conducting a comparative study of the approach of Australia and the United States to domestic violence fatality reviews, which involve the analysis of homicides related to domestic violence for the purpose of preventing future fatalities.
DR MATTHEW KLEINHENZ Fulbright Scholar Award
Funded by CQUniversity Australia
Home: The Ohio State University
Host: CQUniversity Australia
Field: Minerals and Energy Resources
Matthew is a professor and extension specialist at The Ohio State University and a contributor to efforts aligning plant, human, and other resources, specifically for vegetable farming but, overall, for greater prosperity and quality of life. His peopleand planet-focused research and outreach activities emphasize accountability to present and emerging concerns and draw from diverse disciplines, talents, and capacities.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Matthew will partner with Central Queensland University, community leaders, and representatives of the solar energy and farming sectors to better understand agrivoltaics, a promising but challenging integration of farming and solar energy production. Dr. Kleinhenz and partners will study the optimism and hesitation surrounding agrivoltaics in Australia, a process essential to ensuring its responsible utilization.
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"My Fulbright research aims to improve our knowledge of intimate partner violence and effective methods for preventing fatalities."
PROFESSOR ADAM SETH LITWIN Fulbright Scholar Award
Home: Cornell University
Host: University of Sydney
Field: Industrial and Labor Relations
DR SANDRA MCLELLAN Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Host: University of Technology Sydney
Field: Environmental Microbiology/Bacterial Genetics
DR COURTNEY MEYERS Fulbright Scholar Award
Funded by the Regional Universities Network of Australia
Home: Texas Tech University
Host: Charles Sturt University
Field: Agricultural Communications
Adam’s research, anchored in industrial relations, spans the intersection of work & employment and technological change. He investigates the ways digital technologies, in particular, are developed and deployed and how they ultimately influence work structures and worker and organizational outcomes. In general, this has pointed to the benefits of workcentered over technology-centered design and deployment. A technologist, he also conducts mixedmethod, industry studies analyzing the interplay of technological change and frontline work in the healthcare sector.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Adam plans to work with his colleagues in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney to begin researching a monograph examining the ways employers leverage labor market power and new technologies to displace downside economic risk. His approach responds to more deterministic approaches that either view the relative power of economic actors as the sole driver of labor market outcomes or that ignore the relationship between power, risk, and technological change altogether.
Sandra is a Professor in the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For her Fulbright Future Scholarship, Sandra will work with Dr. Justin Seymour at the University of Technology Sydney to study how microbial life in urban environments can improve city sustainability and promote clean water. While microorganisms are responsible for important biogeochemical cycles in nature, their role in metabolism of nutrients and waste products in city water infrastructure is relatively unexplored. Additionally, the unique collection of microbes found within city sewer and stormwater pipe systems can serve as sensitive tracers of discharges to natural waters including beaches that have a high recreational value.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Sandra hopes to launch a long term collaboration with researchers in Australia to determine how to engineer urban water microbiomes to make cities more sustainable and to devise better methods for assessing negative impacts to coasts and beaches.
Courtney, a professor in agricultural communications at Texas Tech University, is dedicated to improving communication efforts about agriculture. As a Fulbright Scholar, Courtney will research how agricultural issues are being communicated in Australia. Insights gained from her research will be used to create teaching case studies to help students develop critical thinking and communication skills. She will also collaborate with colleagues at Charles Sturt University to facilitate the curriculum development process for agricultural communications.
As a recipient of the inaugural Fulbright Scholar Award funded by the Regional Universities Network of Australia (RUN), Courtney will visit other universities in the RUN group to explore the potential for creating agricultural communications as a disciplinary concentration. Her goal is to provide the foundation and motivation to establish a new curricular focus that will serve to strengthen regional communities and the Australian agriculture industry.
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TESS M.S. NEAL Fulbright Scholar Award
Home: Arizona State University
Host: University of New South Wales
Field: Psychology & Law
GARY REGER Fulbright Scholar Award
Home: Trinity College
Host: University of Western Australia
Field: History
Tess is an associate professor of psychology, a founding faculty member of Arizona State University's Law and Behavioral Science Initiative, and inaugural director of ASU’s Future of Forensic Science Initiative. She is a scientist; a clinical psychologist trained to assess, diagnose, and treat mental and behavioral disorders; and a forensic psychologist trained to bring psychology into legal contexts. She studies the nature and limits of expertise. Her basic work focuses on understanding and improving human judgment processes –especially among trained experts, and her more applied work focuses on improving forensic experts’ judgments in particular.
Tess' Fulbright project will advance both basic and applied science in these areas.
Gary's research has focused on the economic history of the Greek and Roman world, which led -- through the rich documentary and archaeological evidence of the Eastern Desert in Egypt -- to a passion for the history of human interaction with desert environments. Going beyond the classical Mediterranean world, this new research project has led to articles on the history and literature of the southwestern deserts of the United States. The centerpiece of his time in Australia will be the organization of a conference that will bring humanities scholars and desert specialists together to share work and perspectives on the western deserts. The planned publication of the papers from this conference will, it is hoped, be an important contribution to interdisciplinary work on the Australia desert world. Gary also plans to take advantage of his residence in Perth to travel as much as possible in the western Australian deserts.
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"My Fulbright project will yield comparative data about how the different evidence laws of the U.S. and Australia lead to similar and different patterns of judicial decision making about psychological evidence, with the potential to inform revisions to laws governing the admissibility of expert evidence in both countries."
DR SANDRA SHEFELBINE
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Northeastern University
Host: University of Melbourne
Field: Mechanical Engineering
Sandra is a professor at Northeastern University with appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering. Her research examines the mechanical properties of bone and the ability of bone to adapt to mechanical loads. She uses lab experiments, computer models, and clinical observation to understand how mechanical forces affect the musculoskeletal system in health and disease.
As a Fulbright Future Scholar, she will work with collaborators at University of Melbourne to assess human motion, specifically in athletes, to detect people at risk of developing a muscle injury or altered bone morphology. She will also explore novel methods for measuring the mechanical changes to cartilage in arthritis and understanding cartilage cell sensitivity to mechanical load. Understanding the fundamental basis for musculoskeletal problems, such as bone deformities, muscle injuries, or arthritis may lead to improved diagnosis and treatment.
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LINDSAY SQUEGLIA
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Medical University of South Carolina
Host: University of Sydney
Field: Neuropsychology
Lindsay is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She received a Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of California San Diego and San Diego State University. In 2014, she returned to her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, for a faculty position at MUSC. Her research focuses on understanding the effects of alcohol and cannabis use on adolescent brain development, as well as creating effective treatment options for substanceusing youth. She has a strong interest in community outreach and education efforts and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Lindsay aspires to minimize the long-term negative effects of teen substance use by creating more effective prevention and intervention programs.
This Fulbright award provides the opportunity for cross-national collaboration between the United States and Australia to improve health outcomes globally for youth struggling with substance use problems.
PROFESSOR MILLICENT SULLIVAN Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of Delaware
Host: University of Melbourne
Field: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering/ Biomedical Engineering
Millie is the Alvin B. and Julie O. Stiles Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Professor in Biomedical Engineering at University of Delaware. Her work has identified new biomaterials that deliver drug and gene therapies with increased efficacy, specificity, and control. She also investigates new synthetic cell design strategies as a principal investigator in the NSF ProteoCell Project, and she serves as Core Director in UD’s new NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE): the Delaware Center for Musculoskeletal Research. For her Fulbright project, Millie will develop topical biomaterials that improve wound healing by delivering gene therapies. She will combine new strategies to create collagen-binding DNA nanoparticles, developed in her labs at University of Delaware, with new strategies to produce bioactive wound dressings, developed in collaborating labs at University of Melbourne. Combining these two strategies provides a route to create low-cost yet highly active biomaterials, with long-term potential to improve clinical outcomes.
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PROFESSOR KENNETH W. TATE
Fulbright Scholar Award
Funded by CQUniversity Australia
Home: University of California, Davis
Host: Central Queensland University
Field: Rangeland Management
Ken is a Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He holds the Russell L. Rustici Endowed Chair in Rangeland Watershed Sciences. In collaboration with a diverse stakeholder base, Ken leads a participatory research program focused on developing ecologically, socially, and economically sustainable livestock production systems in rangeland ecosystems. He has completed a substantial body of research on strategies to mitigate livestock impacts on wetlands, water quality, and soil health in western North America. Due to these efforts, Ken has received the Rangeland Conservation Impact Award, and the Bradford – Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leadership Award.
For his Fulbright Scholarship, Ken will spend four months developing partnerships with scientists and stakeholders at Central Queensland University in Australia to initiate novel research to address livestock related water quality impairments that are contributing to the decline of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem.
PROFESSOR ZHIQUN ZHU
Fulbright 75th Anniversary Alliance Award
Funded by the U.S. Embassy, Canberra
Home: Bucknell University
Host: Griffith University
Field: International Relations, Foreign Policy
Zhiqun is a professor of political science and international relations at Bucknell University. His teaching and research interests include U.S.-China relations, Chinese politics and foreign policy, East Asian political economy, and Indo-Pacific security.
Dr. Zhu is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including A Critical Decade: China’s Foreign Policy 2008-2018; China’s New Diplomacy: Rationale, Strategies and Significance; New Dynamics in East Asian Politics: Security, Political Economy, and Society; and US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Power Transition and Peace.
As a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Zhiqun will work on a project about how China’s rise challenges the alliance between the United States and Australia and how they should respond. He hopes to gain some insight on this issue from meeting with scholars, business executives, opinion leaders, government officials, and others in Australia.
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"My Fulbright project aims to deepen our understanding of the U.S.-Australia alliance in the context of China's rise and challenges."
Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australia-U.S. Alliance Studies (AUSMIN Quad Scholarship)
Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Home: RMIT University
Host: George Washington University
Field: International Security
Adam is a specialist in U.S. foreign policy and regional Indo-Pacific security. He is the author of two manuscripts examining U.S. foreign policy and China and has contributed to articles examining whole of government applications to Indo-Pacific strategy in the United States. He is a Non-resident Lloyd and Lilian Vasey Fellow, Pacific Forum, and a lecturer and regional foreign relations specialist at RMIT University. Dr Bartley also speaks fluent Mandarin. For his project, Adam will examine how ASEAN members can cooperate with emerging security programs in the Indo-Pacific at a time when the regional spatial configurations of security, where the “zones of war" "zones of peace” have become increasingly blurred. American and Australian efforts are expanding to meet the threat of socalled grey zone activities. The extent that these nations can contribute to a more inclusive regional pushback against such threats will rely on an acute understanding of ASEAN’s threat perceptions and the implications of intersecting systems effects. In undertaking his project, Adam will be situated at the Sigur Center for Asian Affairs, George Washington University, and in collaboration with the Elliot School for International Affairs, Washington DC.
RACHEL COGHLAN
Fulbright Scholarship in Non-Profit Leadership
Funded by Perpetual Ltd. and supported by the Australian Scholarships Foundation
Home: Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, Deakin University
Host: Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins University
Field: Non-Profit Leadership
Rachel is a palliative care physiotherapist, an international public health researcher and advocate, and an occasional writer. She is completing a PhD at the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, Deakin University, exploring the place of palliative care in humanitarian crises with a focus on armed conflict settings. Rachel is a Director at Palliative Care Australia. She is passionate about drawing on her clinical and real world experiences in palliative care to shape future research and policy. Care of those who are seriously ill or dying has been an overlooked aspect of formal humanitarian response.
As a Fulbright Scholar in Non-Profit Leadership, Rachel will work with Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Humanitarian Health to build the foundation for future research on palliative care in humanitarian emergencies; and consider ways to engage and advocate to a wider humanitarian audience on palliative care. The scholarship offers a unique opportunity to foster dialogue and deliberate ideas on palliative care with leading humanitarian health researchers and practitioners, and to strengthen collaborations between humanitarian scholars in the USA and Australia.
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DR ADAM BARTLEY
Australian Professional
Awards PROFESSIONAL
KATE GOLEBIOWSKA
Fulbright Professional Coral Sea Scholarship (Business/Industry)
Home: Charles Darwin University
Host: Emory University
Field: Migration Studies, Entrepreneurship
Kate is an international migration scholar with research interests in immigrants’ social and economic inclusion. The micro-entrepreneurship of immigrant women is an area that is awaiting new insights and provides opportunities for informing social justice advancements.
As a Fulbright scholar, Kate will explore and experience the Emory University Goizueta Business School’s business accelerator for immigrant and minority micro-entrepreneurs, most of whom are women. This program is delivered in partnership with place-based organisations. Kate will leverage the insights from Goizueta’s business accelerator model to design a framework for establishing a similar initiative for immigrant women micro-entrepreneurs in Darwin. She will develop new collaborative research networks that will advance our mutual understanding of immigrant women’s entrepreneurship. Kate plans to utilise her newly acquired knowledge to contribute to conversations in Australia about how university-led partnerships in acceleration can promote immigrant women’s empowerment and inclusion through microenterprise and positively impact communities.
PHILIPP IVANOV
Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australia-U.S. Alliance Studies
Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Home: Asia Society Australia
Host: Georgetown University
Field: Foreign Policy
Philipp is the CEO of Asia Society Australia, the nation’s leading business and policy think-tank dedicated to the Indo-Pacific region. Philipp is a China specialist with extensive experience in strategy, organisational renewal, policy and research across government, education and non-profit sectors. He is passionate about strengthening Australia’s credentials as an inclusive society and an active international player deeply connected with Asia and committed to finding solutions to shared regional and global challenges. He studied and worked in China, Russia and across Asia and the Middle East, and speaks fluent Chinese and Russian.
Philipp's Fulbright project will map out new thinking on digital and global impact strategies by leading U.S. foreign policy think tanks and build a platform for collaboration between U.S. and Australian institutions and their peers in Asia.
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"To be relevant and impactful, foreign policy communities in Australia and the U.S. will need to engage strategically and actively with their peers and audiences in Asia, while harnessing the power of digital technologies to amplify their policy impact at home and abroad."
GEORGIE SKIPPER
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Quantum Medical Innovation Fund/Atlassian
Host: MIT Sloan School of Management
Field: Migration Studies, Entrepreneurship
Georgie is adviser to the Quantum Medical Innovation Fund and currently the Director of Global Public Policy at Atlassian. Most recently Georgie was the Senior Adviser and principal adviser on the United States to the Foreign Minister of Australia, the Honourable Julie Bishop, for five years from 2013-2018. She will use her Fulbright Future Scholarship to enhance the momentum in Australia around private sector investment in social good projects, with a particular emphasis in the Indo-Pacific region.
Georgie plans to specialise in developing a strategic approach and framework to driving investment into the Indo-Pacific region, to address critical needs focussing on technology. Georgie will actively work to leverage this framework to develop partnerships between Australia and the US providing a clearer pathway for strategic investments that have a positive impact while also delivering returns.
Georgie will spend her time in the U.S. developing her professional networks in the areas of international relations, impact investing and economics, to bring together her expertise and strengthen Australia’s leadership capability in this area.
PROFESSOR LISA TOOHEY
Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australia-U.S. Alliance Studies (AUSMIN Indo-Pacific Scholarship)
Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Home: The University of Newcastle
Host: University of Texas at Austin
Field: Law and International Relations
Lisa is a Professor of Law and Assistant Dean (Equity Diversity & Inclusion) with research and teaching expertise in international trade law, and dispute resolution. Lisa holds dual qualifications in Law and International Relations.
Lisa's Fulbright research project focusses on the changing political dynamics in the Asia-Pacific Region and their impact on the Australia-U.S. relationship. It includes examination of trade and non-trade concerns at both a global and regional level and changing attitudes towards the use of multilateral mechanisms for the resolution of disputes. The objective of the project is to enhance U.S.-Australian relations by strengthening the mutual understanding of the political context in which trade currently operates for each country.
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"Our future is not in the stars but in our own minds and hearts. Creative leadership and liberal education, which in fact go together, are the first requirements for a hopeful future for humankind."
- Senator J. William Fulbright Remarks from the 30th anniversary of the Fulbright Program, 1976
DR KELLY ATKINS Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Melbourne
Host: Weill Cornell Medicine
Field: Neuropsychology
Kelly is a researcher and clinical neuropsychologist. She is determined to work at the intersection of research and clinical care to improve the lives of people living with neurodegenerative disease. On completing her doctorate, Kelly joined St Vincent's Hospital and Melbourne Medical School at the University of Melbourne to co-develop a behavioural intervention to prevent delirium amongst older Australian’s undergoing surgery and anaesthesia. Delirium is the most common complication after surgery for older people and greatly increases the risk of dementia in the community. There are no pharmacological treatments for delirium and prevention is the best available strategy.
Kelly’s Fulbright Future Scholarship at Weill Cornell Medicine will enable her to adapt a delirium prevention program, targeting modifiable risk factors, to the American context. By collaborating with delirium experts in the U.S., Kelly will have the necessary resources to translate her findings into a large Melbourne tertiary hospital, to ultimately improve perioperative healthcare in Australia.
DR NATALIE LOUISE BENBOW Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia
Host: Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
Field: Physical Chemistry
Natalie currently works in the Science Division of the Environment Protection Authority Victoria. As a Fulbright Scholar, Natalie will use sumfrequency generation spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy to investigate the effect of surface roughness of medical implants on the adsorption of protein and platelets in blood. The interactions of fibrinogen and platelets with the surface of an implant can contribute to blood-clot formation and implant failure. This project aims to improve patient outcomes by informing the design of medical implants such as cardiovascular stents. This project links to her prior PhD and postdoctoral research at the University of South Australia.
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DR TRAVIS BRITTON
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of Tasmania
Host: University of California, Santa Barbara
Field: Plant Ecophysiology
Travis is a plant eco-physiologist researching how ecological interactions influence tree growth and survival. His work is largely focused on how ecological interactions among neighbouring plants modify the direct effects of environmental change in forest communities. He is particularly interested in whether integrating broad-scale climatic conditions with localscale ecological interactions increases our ability to accurately predict tree performance.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Travis will seek to improve our understanding of how plant physiology and various ecological interactions determine drought-driven tree mortality. The outcomes of his Fulbright research will inform models predicting future drought impacts on forest ecosystems and assist in maximising the success of future conservation efforts.
DR LUKE CARROLL
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Sydney
Host: Wake Forrest University
Field: Medical Science
Luke is a postdoctoral researcher at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, The University of Sydney. With his Fulbright Scholarship, Luke will visit a leading endocrinology group at Wake Forest University and learn cutting edge research techniques to investigate mitochondrial function in individuals with Diabetes. This project aims to provide new insights into the mitochondrial function, quality and quantity in individuals with Diabetes and lay the groundwork for therapeutic interventions. In addition, Luke's time at Wake Forest University will allow him to build valuable networks while enhancing his knowledge of critical cellular processes and therapeutic targets.
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"My Fulbright research focuses on identifying individuals at risk of developing diabetes complications and investigates potential treatment targets.
Specifically, I will be studying the role and function of mitochondria
(often referred to as the cell's powerhouse) in individuals with Diabetes."
ALI ENTEZARI Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Sydney
Host: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Field: Biomedical Engineering
Ali is an early career researcher within the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the design and optimization of synthetic tissue scaffolds to repair diseased or damaged tissues such as bone defects.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Ali will undertake research for 10 months at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he will use state-ofthe-art bioprinting technologies to develop novel hydrogel-based scaffolds for the reconstruction of damaged tissues.
DR JASON ESHRAGIAN Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Western Australia
Host: University of Michigan
Field: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
DR HANNAH ETCHELLS Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Western Australia
Host: University of California, Davis
Field: Wildlife & Wildland Management
Jason is a Forrest Fellow with the Schools of Medicine and Computer Science at the University of Western Australia, merging the seemingly disparate fields of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and chip design in the pursuit of developing brain-inspired processors. He is the developer of snnTorch, an open-source Python package that merges state of the art deep learning techniques with neural encoding mechanisms. He is the recipient of several highly competitive IEEE best paper and live demonstration awards for his contributions to neuromorphic engineering.
Jason's Fulbright Scholarship will take him to the University of Michigan, where he will use nanoelectronics in a way that naturally emulate biological neurons. In doing so, he will work towards developing the next generation of AI guided by the principles underlying the brain.
Hannah earned her BSc in Botany and Conservation Biology and first class honours in Botany at the University of Western Australia. She is currently completing PhD research, focussing on the ecological impacts of large-scale, catastrophic wildfire events in southwest Australia. Hannah recently spent six months on a Fulbright Scholarship working in the laboratory of Professor Scott Stephens at University of California Berkeley, researching wildfire impacts and prescribed burning in California. Hannah’s PhD research investigates the ecological impacts of catastrophic wildfire. The forested regions of Australia and North America have both witnessed unprecedented large-scale wildfire events over the last decade, and wildfire in both regions is projected increase in frequency and severity over the next century. However, the ecological impacts of such events and consequences for future management are poorly understood.
Hannah’s research will promote the sharing of knowledge between Australia and the U.S., forging research ties and developing collaborative projects to understand catastrophic wildfire events in a global context.
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DR SAMIRA GARSHASBI
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of New South Wales
Host: University of South Florida
Field: Built Environment
Samira is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Her research area includes the development, testing, and implementation of advanced heat mitigation technologies for urban heat mitigation application. Samira has extensive experience on the development of novel urban heat mitigation technologies as well as large-scale urban heat mitigation projects in Australian cities.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Samira will collaborate with experts at University of South Florida to develop cutting-edge fluorescent evaporative and insulating building materials to mitigate the serious issue of urban overheating in big cities. Her project will develop innovative fluorescent evaporative/fluorescent insulating materials to overcome fluorescence quenching, and improve fluorescent cooling and increase the overall cooling potential using evaporative cooling and insulation as additional non-optical cooling mechanisms. This project will be a major step towards improving the current cooling potential of existing heatrejecting building material technologies for urban heat mitigation application.
DR JOSEPH GIORGIO
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Newcastle
Host: University of California, Berkeley
Field: Neuroscience
Joseph recently completed his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK where he developed machine learning tools to predict patient trajectories in preclinical and prodromal Alzheimer's Disease. On returning to Australia he joined the University of Newcastle as a research associate investigating the dynamic activity of the brain in the presence of Alzheimer's pathology, teasing apart how dysfunction in the brain leads to cognitive impairment.
Joseph's Fulbright research will use innovative multivariate approaches to explore the relationships between the genome, brain pathology and cognition in Alzheimer's Disease.
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"My Fulbright program aims to understand how the human genome drives Alzheimer's pathology. Calling on the stateof-the-art biomarker research at the University of California, Berkeley I aim to derive sensitive genetic markers for Alzheimer’s pathology. In doing so I hope to develop timely and accessible diagnostics and guide novel interventions."
DR THOMAS GUY MD PHD Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI)
Host: Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard University
Field: Immunology
Tom is a clinician researcher training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. His long term interest lies in immunotherapy treatments for cancer. He wants to understand why some cancers are cured by immunotherapy but not others, with the ultimate goal to improve cancer treatments and the lives of patients with cancer.
Building on his PhD work and clinical research, Tom will join Professor Pillai’s group at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard. Tom will learn state of the art technologies at this NIH-funded Autoimmune Center of Excellence and bring these skills back to further his IHMRI based cancer research.
DR TROY HEFFERNAN Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship
Home: La Trobe University
Host: Columbia University
Field: Education
Troy is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership at La Trobe University. His work focuses on higher education where his research objective is to support universities as their role in the community continues to grow, and to help ensure that diverse and marginalised groups are represented and treated equitably throughout the sector.
Troy will use his Fulbright Scholarship to create enhanced support services for marginalised university students by examining current support practices across the United States and Australian universities, to create best-practice policy advice for the global higher education sector.
JOHANNES JANSSENS
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of Melbourne
Host: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Field: Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
Johannes aspires to be a leader in the field of heart disease diagnostics and therapy development. His strength as a problem solver is to think unconventionally and creatively to find new solutions. He is completing his PhD in the laboratory of Professor Lea Delbridge at the University of Melbourne. His research focus is understanding how defects in sugar metabolism can damage the heart muscle of people living with diabetes.
The Fulbright Future Scholarship provides the ideal opportunity for Johannes to immerse himself in the academic and commercial research environment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, under the direction of the world-renowned proteomics expert Professor Jennifer Van Eyk. His goal is to identify the precise molecular defects involved in diabetic heart damage as a starting point for developing precision diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
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DR LACHLAN JONES
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Queensland
Host: North Carolina State University
Field: Environmental Ecology
MANINDER KAUR
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Murdoch University
Host: Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University
Field: Plant Pathology
MAHYAR KHORASANI
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: RMIT University
Host: The University of Texas at El Paso
Field: Manufacturing Engineering
Lachlan is an insect-plant ecologist interested in behaviour and environmental interactions. He completed his PhD on host searching in a generalist pest insect at the University of Queensland in 2020 and subsequently worked in weed biocontrol at CSIRO.
Lachlan's Fulbright reseach at North Carolina State University and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laborotory will use long term climate, flower cover and specimen records to evaluate impacts of extreme temperatures and floral abundance on body sizes of Rocky Mountain bees. Smaller bees are often less effective pollinators, and body size may help indicate bee population health and adaptation to warming climates.
Maninder is a PhD student at Murdoch University in Western Australia, currently researching cold plasma technology to treat Fusarium graminearum, a primary fungal pathogen of Fusarium head blight disease in cereals. Her focus is to minimise the agriculture industry's reliance on chemicals while maintaining the product's quality.
As a Fulbright scholar, she will continue her work on cold plasma to understand the pathogen's pathogenicity, defence response, and interaction with cold plasma treatments. This project will help identify the genomic mutations in F. graminearum induced by cold plasma, which could be used to predict the changes in the fungal virulence against the host plant.
Mahyar works at RMIT as Research Officer at the Centre for Additive Manufacturing. He is the coauthor of a leading publication in the field. Mahyar is Associate Editor in Chief of Rapid Prototyping Journal which is the first established journal in this field. Mahyar's Fulbright project aims to identify physical principles to improve a temperature-dependent optical-model in 3D-printing which expects to generate new knowledge using an innovative approach on process temperature estimation. This should provide significant benefits, such as the possibility to predict the quality of the printed components before starting the print jobs, and the potential to grow manufacturing in Australia.
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DR MARIA KOVALEVA
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Curtin University
Host: Brigham Young University (BYU)
Field: Electrical Engineering
Maria graduated with a PhD from Macquarie University in 2019 where her research focused on novel antennas and metasurfaces using evolutionary optimization algorithms. Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Perth, Western Australia. Maria’s research is focused on phased-array receiving antennas that will constitute part of the future largest radio telescope in the world – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
Maria will use her Fulbright Scholarship to visit the Radio Astronomy Systems Research Group at BYU in Utah to collaborate with their experts in phased-array antennas and strengthen a research collaboration between Australia and the U.S. The project aim is to develop novel techniques for largescale phased array electromagnetic analysis that will improve the quality of radio astronomy imaging. The results of this research will contribute to advances in SKA data processing pipelines and ultimately, bring us closer to unveiling the mysteries of the evolution of the universe.
DR EMILY LESTER Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Australian Institute of Marine Science
Host: University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Field: Marine Science
Emily is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, where her research focuses on the role of predators in coral reefs. She is particularly interested in how the presence of sharks alters important behaviours of fishes and developing novel methods to quantify the ecological impacts of these behavioural shifts.
During her Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship, Emily will work with Dr. Elizabeth Madin at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa to examine the influence of predator populations on herbivorous fishes using vegetation patterns on coral reefs called ‘grazing halos’. She will use a combination of satellite imagery and fish survey data to gain a deeper understanding of the impact of fishing on grazing halo size within the context of environmental variation, advancing ecological theory and informing coral reef conservation.
DR WESLEY MOSS Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Western Australia
Host: North Carolina State University
Field: Agricultural Engineering
Wesley is an engineer, researcher and educator who is passionate about leveraging technology to create a sustainable future, particularly in the areas of agriculture and food security. Wesley recently completed a PhD at The University of Western Australia (UWA), developing sustainable approaches for pasture seed harvesting. A founding member of UWA’s Centre for Engineering Innovation: Agriculture and Ecological Restoration, Wesley hopes to positively contribute to food production in his career.
Wesley is excited to continue to address issues facing agriculture during the Fulbright program, where he will investigate innovative and sustainable weed control technologies for Australian and US conditions.
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DR MUHAMMAD TARIQ NAZIR Fulbright Postdoctoral (Vice-Chancellor's Fellowship) Scholarship
Funded by RMIT University
Home: University of New South Wales
Host: The University of Alabama, Huntsville
Field: High Voltage Systems Monitoring
DR SHRUTI NIRANTAR
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: RMIT University
Host: The University of Texas at Austin
Field: Nanoelectronics and Nanofabrication
Muhammad received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney in 2018 and currently works there as a research assistant. His research interests include high voltage systems, electrical insulating materials, condition monitoring of power system equipment, and fire-retardant materials. He also serves as associate editor of High Voltage and Applied Nanoscience journals. He is a Professional Engineer member of Engineers Australia and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advance HE, UK. Moreover, he has been a guest speaker at 22nd International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH-2021).
As a Fulbright Scholar, Muhammad will collaborate with experts at Power Systems Insulation Laboratory at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. The severity of wildfires is increasing with the significant changes in the climate conditions, especially in Australia and America. One of the major contributors to the ignition of wildfires is the catastrophic failure of overhead powerlines and wood poles top fires. In this project, he aims to develop an innovative far-reaching coating solution to protect powerlines from fires.
Shruti is a postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University, Australia. Her work focuses on silicon-free nanoelectronics. The primary interest is the nanoscale air channel devices. For her work on metal-air devices, she was named the Most Innovative Engineers of Australia by Engineers Australia and received Young Scientist Award (2nd place) by the Royal Society of Victoria, Australia, and Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Research Excellence by RMIT University, Australia.
Shruti will be visiting two pioneering and leading research group in the U.S. to expand her work on the air channel devices to address the needs of highperformance space and future electronics.
DR STIRLING ROBERTON
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of Southern Queensland
Host: United States Department of Agriculture
Field: Soil Science
Stirling is currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland. Stirling's area of research is focused on applying Digital Soil Mapping techniques at the sub-field scale to help farmers and advisors better manage their variable soils. He is particularly interested in developing approaches to help farmers spatially identify which of their soils offer the greatest potential for improvement through the implementation of soil amelioration strategies. .
During his Fulbright Scholarship, Stirling will work with Dr Ken Sudduth at The United States Department of Agriculture to identify the impact of soil constraints on the American Agricultural industry.
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DR BEHNAM SADEGHI
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Sydney
Host: Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL)
Field: Geosciences
Behnam is a Geoscientist at the University of Sydney. His research is focused on mathematical and computational geosciences applied to exploration geochemistry through which he integrates GIS, data science, geomathematics, and geostatistics and simulations, to develop new advanced and efficient decision-making models to discover new mineral deposits considering the associated uncertainties.
Benham will be hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL) in Washington, DC, which has close collaborations with NASA. The outcomes of this project could potentially be applied to the exploration of mineral deposits and resources on other planets (e.g., Mars) in the future.
DR ELISE STEPHENSON
Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship
Funded by Monash University
Home: The Australian National University
Host: University of Washington
Field: Gender and International Relations
Elise is a multi award-winning gender and international relations scholar, social entrepreneur, and Research Fellow in the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at the Australian National University. She is a collaborative leader dedicated to excellence and innovation, recognized by Google, Deloitte and Energy Australia as one of Australia's Top 50 Outstanding LGBTIQ+ Leaders, the United Nations Australia Association as a Community Awardee, and as Griffith University’s Overall Outstanding Young Alumni for 2020, with the Chancellor's and University Medal for Excellence in Research.
Elise is a 2022 Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar, focusing on “Women at the Frontier: Diversity in Space”.
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of Technology Sydney
Host: University of California, Los Angeles
Field: Neuroscience
Sarah recently submitted her PhD at the University of Technology Sydney in which she investigated novel mechanisms to target neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s disease. As a Fulbright scholar, Sarah will shift her focus from neuroinflammation to neurodegeneration in which she aims to identify a novel target to promote neuroprotection in Multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease which already has successful immunotherapies but no neuroprotective agents. In addition, Sarah has a passion for increasing diversity in science and advocating for evidence-based health policy and improved health literacy and education through her work with professional, academic and community organisations.
Sarah's Fulbright research aims to reveal a new therapeutic pathway to promote neuroprotection in MS. This aims to address the major limitation of current anti-inflammatory treatments for MS that do not prevent or slow the loss of neurons which is correlated with disease progression and clinical severity.
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DR RUBY J. WRIGHT
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Western Australia
Host: Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Astrophysics
Field: Astrophysics
Ruby is a computational astrophysicist, interested in understanding how galaxies like our own Milky Way form and evolve. To do so, she uses computergenerated "mini-Universes" that can be analysed in ways that the real Universe cannot. These tools form an imperative framework with which astronomers can interpret results from cutting-edge observational facilities.
As a Fulbright scholar, Ruby will work with worldleading experts to understand the differences between state-of-the-art galaxy formation simulations. Her work will maximise the physical insight to be gained from the next generation of telescope facilities, such as the Square Kilometer Array and James Webb Space Telescope.
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SALVADOR ZARCO-PERELLO
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Murdoch University
Host: University of California Santa Barbara/ University of New Hampshire
Field: Marine Ecology/Natural Resource Management
Salvador is a marine biologist interested in understanding the function of marine ecosystems under different environments. Currently Salvador is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Murdoch University researching the trophic networks of marine ecosystems in Western Australia.
As a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar, Salvador will collaborate with the research groups of Professor Jenn Caselle (UCSB) and Dr. Easton White (UNH) to analyze the relationship between trophic dynamics, resource management strategies and ecological services of the giant kelp forests of California in current and future environmental conditions.
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"My Fulbright postdoctoral research aims to further our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve, paving the way for the next generation of telescope facilities (such as the Square Kilometre Array) and cosmological simulations."
LAURA ELIZABETH LILLY PHD
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Host: University of Queensland/UNSW
Field: Oceanography
Laura is an oceaongrapher who recently completed her Ph.D. at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and currently works as a postdoctoral scholar jointly with Oregon State University and the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Her research focuses on zooplankton community shifts in the California Current System in response to El Niño events and the more recent onset of frequent and persistent Marine Heatwaves.
In Australia, Laura will be studying recent outbreaks ("blooms") of an oceanic plankton know as pyrosomes. She will be characterizing the oceanographic conditions that cause pyrosome blooms, comparing them to similar recent blooms in the California Current, and incorporating pyrosomes into food web models to determine potential impacts of blooms on fisheries, coastal human infrastructure, and biological carbon export.
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"My Fulbright research analyzes the oceanographic conditions that cause blooms of pyrosomes, a pelagic tunicate zooplankton, off Australia, with the additional goal of incorporating these blooms into food web models to determine impacts on fisheries and ocean carbon export."
DONNA-MARIE PALAKIKO PHD RN APRN
Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship
Funded by the University of Newcastle
Home: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Host: The University of Newcastle
Field: Indigenous Health Disparities
Donna-Marie is a Native Hawaiian mother, health strategist, community-based researcher, nurse, and Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing. She has over 20 years of community-based participatory research and non-profit experience including health care administration and workforce development. She is committed to addressing social determinants of health among indigenous people through the development of culturally safe health interventions.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Donna-Marie will partner with experts in lung health and indigenous researchers to understand the role and influence culture has on asthma outcomes among indigenous people.
HANNAH M. TWIDDY
Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship
Funded by the University of Newcastle
Home: Old Dominion University
Host: The University of Newcastle
Field: Generational Health and Aging
MELISSA WARD
Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship
Funded by Deakin University
Home: University of California, Davis
Host: Blue Carbon Lab, Deakin University
Field: Marine Science
Hannah is completing her PhD in Human Movement Science and Certificate in Global Health at Old Dominion University. Her research focus lies in investigating tools to properly assess healthy aging. Recently, Hannah compared the perspectives of successful-healthy aging with older adults in Costa Rica and the U.S. She will use this data as a guide to inquire further into extended periods of good health for prevention of age-related or noncommunicable disease across cultures. This exploration into perspectives of healthy aging from multiple countries will expand the concept, experience, and environment of successful-healthy aging.
Hanna's Fulbright research will examine the use of objective health status to define models of successful-healthy aging despite presence of disease; and compare successful-healthy aging across cultures. This scholarship will promote the exchange of knowledge and development of collaborative projects to understand healthy aging on a global level.
Melissa recently graduated from University of California, Davis with her Ph.D. in Marine Ecology, where she studied how coastal habitats can serve to mitigate climate change. In particular, she investigated how seagrass meadows mitigate ocean acidification through photosynthesis – making it easier for oysters and other calcifying organisms to live in or near meadows.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Melissa will conduct related work on climate change solutions with Dr. Peter Macreadie’s Blue Carbon Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne for ten months. Specifically, she will investigate how Australia’s mangroves, seagrass meadows, and tidal marshes sequester and store carbon in their underlying sediment for millennia. By reducing atmospheric CO2, these habitats serve to combat the impacts of climate change on coastal economies and environments. Melissa also plans to use her time in Australia to develop her international network and gain new perspectives on climate policy outside the U.S.
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JAMES R. BEATTIE
Fulbright ACT Scholarship
Funded by the ACT Government
Home: The Australian National University
Host: University of California Santa Cruz
Field: Astronomy & Astrophysics
James is a theoretical astrophysicist and PhD candidate at the Australian National University. He studies many aspects of the turbulent interstellar medium — the birthplace of stars in the modern Universe — by running some of the largest supercomputer simulations in the world and developing analytical, mathematical models involving turbulent, magnetised plasma dynamics. James has broad research interests and has collaborated upon studies in ecology, robotics vision, solar physics, cosmic ray dynamics, magnetic dynamo and interstellar medium physics. He is passionate about inspiring the next generation in STEM and helps run the Young Stars science outreach program in Canberra, which provides inspiring science discussions and activities for kids across Canberra.
As a Fulbright scholar, James will collaborate with Prof. Brant Robertson and Dr Philip Mocz at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, respectively, to understand the connections between local sites of star formation and the large-scale, observable properties of star-forming gas.
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"Using supercomputers and novel mathematical models, my Fulbright research aims to connect the large, lightyear-sized, and small, solar system-sized, scales of the star formation process together."
KATJA BIGNALL-DALY
Fulbright South Australia Scholarship
Funded by the South Australian Government
Home: Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement
Host: TBC
Field: Law and Justice
Katja is a criminal defence lawyer at the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement servicing some of the most remote areas of South Australia. She is committed to exploration of the institutional power abuses which hinder the administration of justice and the protection of human rights, particularly through the lens of Aboriginal affairs within the Australian context.
Katja's Fulbright project seeks to research the potential for law reform to ensure Indigenous Australians, particularly residents in remote communities, will have culturally relevant access to the justice system and equal enjoyment of rights and self-determination.
SAMUEL BOLLAND
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Western Australia
Host: Harvard Medical School/ Northeastern University
Field: Biomedical Engineering
WILLIAM BRUFFEY
Fulbright Sir John Carrick NSW Scholarship
Funded by the New South Wales Government
Home: University of New South Wales
Host: TBC
Field: Law
Sam is a PhD candidate investigating how non-invasive brain stimulation can be used to develop neuroplasticity-based treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Sam will assist Professor Sydney S. Cash and Professor Nian X. Sun and their teams at Harvard Medical School and Northeastern University respectively to develop a novel noninvasive deep brain stimulation device.
In the future, Sam wishes to establish pathways for other professionals to develop new technology and treatments using the vast amount of neuroscience data created by our research institutions in an effort to benefit disadvantaged Australians living with neuropsychiatric disorders.
William is a lawyer at the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He holds a BA/ LLB (Hons 1) from the University of New South Wales, where he was the President of the Student Representative Council. He was a Tipstaff in the Supreme Court of NSW, before working as a criminal defence lawyer at the Aboriginal Legal Service and Legal Aid in Western New South Wales.
As the Fulbright Sir John Carrick NSW Scholar, William will build on his prosecution and defence experience to undertake a Master of Laws, specialising in criminal justice. He will study the causes of and solutions to wrongful convictions and mass-incarceration, and how disadvantaged people can receive a fair trial when charged with serious crimes.
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DR YUN YOUNG (VANESSA) CHO
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Western Australia
Host: The University of Maryland
Field: Paediatric Dentistry
Vanessa is a specialist paediatric dentist and a clinical academic who is passionate about understanding the psychology of young children to respond to their oral health needs and treat them. She has published several scientific papers in high impact factor dentistry journals, a monograph and obtained several awards - the recent one being the first prize from the Australia New Zealand Society of Paediatric Dentistry Colgate postgraduate research competition. To obtain an objective assessment of a child's perspective, she embraced eye-tracking technology for her PhD to conduct Eye Movement Analysis In chiLdren (EMAIL).
The goal of Vanessa's research is to better understand what children see and connect the visual search patterns to common oral health problems affecting children. In turn, the results be translated if visual search can be used as an early predictor for children at risk of common oral health conditions.
JOSHUA CROWE
Fulbright Western Australia Scholarship
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Western Australia
Host: TBC
Field: Real Estate Development
Josh has extensive property industry experience at the executive level, primarily focused on delivering entry-level affordable housing at scale. The building sector currently accounts for 38% of all energyrelated CO2 and housing affordability is at further risk should a carbon price be applied to construction materials and energy use. Josh is focused on driving a technologically progressive development ecosystem with emergent energy-efficient design and engineering practices, and decarbonised construction methodologies. His present experience as co-founder of an automation software company applying emerging research to defence and cyber needs allows him to view property through an uncommonly technological lens.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Josh will complete a Master in Real Estate Development with a focus on decarbonising the construction value chain and improving housing affordability. In doing so, he will learn from and engage experts in emerging design, practices, and technologies that are progressing global property operations, and develop collaborative US-Australian relationships.
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"My Fulbright research aims to obtain an objective assessment of a child's perspective, using eye-tracking technology.
Seeing through the eyes of a child, I aim to contribute to this growing body of evidence to understand children's perception of common dental presentations.
Identifying eye movement patterns will help formulate specific strategies to prevent common oral conditions such as tooth decay."
JENNIFER SARAH DARMODY
Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship
Home: The Australian National University
Host: TBC
Field: Sports Law and Human Rights
As a female athlete and lawyer, Jennifer has witnessed the impact of gender discrimination and abuse in sport and knows that much needs to change. Having graduated from the Australian National University with First Class Honours in Law, she worked as a tipstaff at the NSW Supreme Court before working as a lawyer at a top tier law firm. Struggling to find purpose in her work she resigned to pursue life as an athlete and to teach law at the Australian National University where she excelled. In 2021 she lectured in Equity at Sydney University Law School.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Jennifer will study an LLM to evolve as a lawyer in the civil and human rights movement for women, transgender and minority athletes. She intends to return to Australia to lecture on the intersect between sports law and human rights and to establish the first student-run pro bono program for athletes in Australia.
SARAH DAVIS
Fulbright Northern Territory Scholarship, Funded by Charles Darwin University, NT Government and Blackboard Pty. Ltd.
Home: University of New South Wales
Host: Harvard University
Field: Science Policy
Sarah graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelors of Advanced Science with First Class Honours and Arts with Distinction. During university, Sarah undertook research at the Garvan Institute, then worked and studied in China and Singapore. After this, she was a consultant where her work focused on strategy and reform in the public sector. She is passionate about social equity and currently works in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory where she has created the first high school STEM mentoring program for the NT.
Sarah believes strongly in Australia’s potential as a modern, 21st century scientific society and she will use her Fulbright scholarship to explore public and private sector mechanisms to accelerate the capture and translation of scientific and technological advances from the laboratory to Australian society.
NICHOLAS HARVEY-DOYLE
Fulbright Indigenous Scholarship
Funded by the National Indigenous Australians Agency
Home: The University of Newcastle
Host: TBC
Field: Media, Culture and Communication
Nick is a descendant of the Anaiwan People from the Northern Tablelands of NSW and is passionate about undertaking work that creates a more culturally diverse and inclusive Australia. Since graduating from the University of Newcastle with degrees in Arts and Law, Nick has worked in corporate law, business development, and most recently as an Account Director at First Nations social change and communications agency, Cox Inall Ridgeway. Through this work Nick advises various government, corporate and third sector clients on a range of Indigenous Affairs projects.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Nick will examine the intersection of media, culture and communication through a global lens to understand how these cyclical relationships can be better managed to break down systemic racism in mainstream media.
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KATHLEEN GARLAND
Fulbright Victoria Scholarship
Home: Monash University
Host: University of Michigan-Dearborn
Field: Evolutionary Biology
Kate is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Melbourne. She has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Queensland and a double degree from the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology. Throughout her education in science, Kate became fascinated by growth processes underpinning the evolution of the diverse morphological adaptations across the tree of life. For her PhD, Kate is studying how one such universal model of growth may determine the evolution of bird beak shape.
As a Fulbright Scholar at the University of MichiganDearborn, Kate aims to reveal how the primordial chicken beak shape is formed by a universal model of growth and how that shape is then maintained or altered from embryogenesis to adulthood. This study is unique in its pursuit to understand a growth process across multiple areas of science, including mathematics, genetics and morphology.
PROFESSOR CLARE HEAL
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: James Cook University
Host: TBC
Field: Biostatistics/Epidemiology/Clinical Research Methods
Clare is academic lead in General Practice for James Cook University, based at the Rural Clinical School in Mackay, and a practicing GP. Her research has a strong focus on meeting the needs of rural, remote and tropical populations and she is an International leader in primary care research. She will complete a Masters program in biostatistics, epidemiology and research methods. She plans to return to her community and continue to increase local research capacity by delivery of research training and mentorship, as well as leading the development of regionally based, primary care led, low cost clinical trials.
Clare is passionate about improving health outcomes for underserved communities. Core to this is increasing research capacity in Rural and Regional North Queensland. Her Fulbright scholarship will equip her with the skills required to increase local research expertise, strengthen existing and emerging projects and nurture grass root research ideas.
ADAM HINES
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Queensland
Host: University of Pennsylvania
Field: Neuroscience
Adam is a neuroscience PhD candidate at The University of Queensland, studying the way general anaesthesia allows complex surgeries to proceed safely and painlessly. General anaesthetic drugs have been used for over 150 years, however we still do not completely understand how they work.
Adam’s Fulbright Scholarship will take him to the University of Pennsylvania to work with Professor Roderic Eckenhoff and his team of experts in general anaesthesia to unravel how these drugs affect neurons at the molecular scale. Upon returning from the U.S., Adam will use his new skills to undertake translational, multidisciplinary neuroscience research in Australia.
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KAHLIA HOGG
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Colorado, Boulder
Host: TBC
Field: Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence
YILING LIU
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of New South Wales
Host: Mayo Clinic
Field: Cancer Biology/Materials Chemistry
Kahlia is an engineer and professional women’s footballer. As a student scholar-athlete at the University of Colorado, Kahlia graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering. With a passion for AI-driven social change, Kahlia is now focused on AI engineering and utilising humancentred artificial intelligence to address climate change and inequality. Her passion for equality was instilled from a young age while growing up in the Pacific.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Kahlia will undertake a Master of Computer Science in Artificial Intelligence. By engaging with academic and industry leaders at the forefront of AI innovation, she hopes to contribute to the development of AI for social good and be an active advocate for women in AI.
Yiling is a PhD candidate working in collaboration with the Laboratory for Advanced Biomaterials & Matrix Engineering and the Centre of Macromolecular Design at the University of New South Wales. She has a strong interest in using tissue engineering to improve the understanding of growth and progression in cancer. She believes this will improve the matching of patients to therapeutics with a high probability of being efficacious for their disease subtype. Her doctoral research aims to create tissue engineered melanoma models that replicate patient tumour characteristics for the development of therapies that attenuate resistance and disrupt metastatic processes. As a Fulbright Scholar, Yiling will extend her research at the Cancer Biology and Translational Research Laboratory at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida. She aims to develop a microtumour array with patient derived cells for high-throughput evaluation of novel cancer therapies including nanomedicines, biomedicines, and combinational drug therapies.
Remarks from the 30th anniversary of the Fulbright Program, 1976
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"We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy, and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education."
- Senator J. William Fulbright
DR HONOR MAGON
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Metro South Health/University of Queensland
Host: Stanford University
Field: Clinical Informatics
Honor is a doctor who is passionate about improving the lives of healthcare workers through digital innovation. She has carved her own path by being the first digital health junior doctor for Metro South Health, uncovering frontline clinician needs and translating them to digital solutions. Honor is also working towards specialist qualifications in Occupational and Environmental Medicine through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP). Here, she helps organisations realise the health benefits of good work, through creating physically and psychologically safe workplaces.
For her Fulbright, Honor will be studying a Master of Clinical Informatics Management to be a part of the next wave of Australia’s digital health leaders.
RAMEEN HAYAT MALIK
Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy
Funded by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment
Home: The University of Sydney
Host: TBC
Field: Energy Policy
Rameen graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Laws. She is currently a policy officer at the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources working on the energy transition and electricity market reform in Australia. Rameen is also deeply passionate about creating spaces for diverse communities in STEM, the arts and sports by working closely with community organisations such as the Bankstown Poetry Slam and Swim Sisters.
As a Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholar, Rameen will study a Master of Public Policy, with a specialisation in energy. Rameen aims to cast a multidisciplinary lens on the transition to a low-emissions electricity sector with a focus on energy justice, emerging energy technologies and data driven policy development. Rameen hopes to apply this learning to help shape the future of Australian energy policy and drive equitable and sustainable outcomes. Rameen will also use her time in the US to learn from minority run organisations working to increase diverse representation in STEM and the arts.
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"My studies and research will explore how principles of justice, technological innovation and data driven policy can be integrated in the development of energy policy. This will allow me to help shape and accelerate Australia’s pathway towards a low emissions energy system through policy design."
EAMONN WILLIAM MCKENNA
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Queensland University of Technology
Host: University of Arizona
Field: Tissue Engineering
Eamonn is a tissue engineering PhD candidate at the Queensland University of Technology developing an exciting breakthrough treatment to heal Diabetic Foot Ulcers. In addition to his research, Eamonn works as a business analyst for a MedTech venture capital fund where he evaluates emerging medical technologies for heart and lung diseases. As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Eamonn will undertake a project at the University of Arizona that compares breakthrough treatments for Diabetic Foot Ulcer repair.
The Fulbright Future Scholarship will allow Eamonn to access world-class expertise, networks, and infrastructure, as well as formally establish a partnership for ongoing collaboration.
JANE MILLWARD
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of New South Wales
Host: TBC
Field: Electrical Engineering
Jane recently completed her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with Honours Class I at the University of New South Wales. She is interested in signal processing and stochastic control in defence applications, in particular in radar systems. Jane has interned with cybersecurity company Penten and the Department of Defence.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Jane will pursue a PhD in electrical engineering specialising in signal processing and stochastic control research.
ARIANE MOORE
Fulbright Tasmania Scholarship
Funded by the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Government
Home: The University of Tasmania
Host: The University of Texas at Austin
Field: Philosophy of Religion
Ariane Moore is a PhD candidate in philosophy of religion at the University of Tasmania. Ariane researches the intersection between belief and non-belief, investigating whether secular people can access experiences that are traditionally exclusive to faith. She graduated from Deakin University with first class Honours for her thesis on the coherence of ritual atheism.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Ariane will study in the Philosophy Department of the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Professor Paul B. Woodruff. She aims to contrast a Kantian experience of the sublime with a secular mystical experience.
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BRYCE GEOFFREY MULLENS
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Sydney
Host: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Field: Materials Chemistry
Bryce is completing a PhD in Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Brendan Kennedy. His studies are concerned with the development of materials capable of safely storing radioactive waste, with a focus on understanding how their structure influences their functionality.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Bryce will spend 4 months with Professor Karena Chapman, a renowned materials scientist and expert in disseminating relationships between structure and reactivity in functional energy materials. There, he will develop techniques for understanding the long- and shortrange ordering of various materials to design further nuclear storage media.
DR ALEXANDRA MURPHY
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Austin Hospital
Host: Mount Sinai Medical Centre
Field: Cardio-Oncology
Dr Alexandra Murphy graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2012 with a Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Medical Science. She entered the Cardiology Advanced Training program at the Austin Hospital in 2017 following which she became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP). Alex is currently a Cardiologist at Austin Hospital and is the lead physician in the Cardio-Haematology service where she manages patients with cardiac issues who have cancer. Her other interests include women’s cardiac health and imaging for structural intervention. She has published extensively, and her manuscripts have been featured in the world’s top cardiology journals. She was recently awarded scholarships from the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, the National Health and Medical Research Council, National Heart Foundation and the Epworth Medical Research Foundation to undertake a PhD on “Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Cancer Patients” through the University of Melbourne.
Alex has developed a SmartPhone based cardiovascular risk reduction program called ‘BreastMate’ aimed to care for the cardiac health of women with breast cancer. This has been rolled out in a state-wide randomised controlled trial called SMART-BREAST which is due to continue as an International trial in New York City in 2022 with the support of the Fulbright Future Scholarship.
JULIAN O'SHEA
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Monash University
Host: University of Kansas
Field: Industrial Design
Julian O’Shea is a designer, educator, social innovator and researcher within the Mobility Design Lab at Monash University. His project, Vehicle for Change, explores how sustainable vehicles - from solar tuk tuks to plastic bottle kayaks - can be used in public engagement and outreach.
Julian's Fulbright project will explore the design of e-bikes and scooters, incorporating the use of sustainable materials including bamboo - as well as video outreach and storytelling. Julian creates engaging educational video content for YouTube and TikTok, and was named the YouTube Breakout Creator for 2021 for his Unknown Melbourne series exploring urban design topics.
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CAPTAIN KENT O'SULLIVAN
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The Australian Army Host: TBC
Field: Artificial Intelligence
Kent is a Signals Officer in the Australian Regular Army. He has experience in conventional and special operations, has deployed to the Middle East and is currently posted to the Royal Military College – Duntroon where he oversees the Leadership, Character and Ethics curriculum. He has a Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) from the University of New South Wales and is completing a Master of Data Science from the University of Southern Queensland in early 2022.
Kent’s study interest is in gaining a deep understanding of Artificial Intelligence technologies so he can be an effective, ethical, technical leader within the Australian Defence Force.
JACK RUDRUM
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Western Australia
Host: TBC
Field: Microbiology and Molecular Biology
Jack is a medical research scientist with the predominant goal of improving and saving the lives of others through developing urgently needed therapies that can treat superbugs. He has completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Science with a double major in Microbiology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, as well as a Master of Infectious Diseases, with high distinction, at the University of Western Australia. For completion of his master’s dissertation, he conducted research at the Telethon Kids Institute. Whilst completing his studies, Jack worked part-time as a phlebotomist, diagnostic laboratory technician and a state public health surveillance officer. He also volunteered with St John Ambulance as an advanced event health medic.
In the 6 months prior to beginning his Fulbright Scholarship, Jack will be working as a molecular biologist for a Perth biotechnology company, helping to develop an alternative COVID-19 diagnostic test which is more accurate and high-throughput than existing options. Jack will be working to devise novel treatment options effective against multidrug resistant pathogens. With the guidance of world-leading researchers, he intends to genetically engineer bacteriophages (viruses which naturally infect and kill bacteria) and combine them with existing antibiotics, to increase their effectiveness and delay bacterial resistance occurring.
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"Antimicrobial resistance has been described by the World Health Organisation as a current global crisis, rendering traditional treatment options ineffective. During my time in the U.S., I'm planning to design bacteriophage formulations so that they can be used in clinical trials and be proven as safe and efficacious for routine treatment of bacterial infections."
MICHAEL TRAEGER
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Burnet Institute
Host: The Fenway Institute
Field: HIV Epidemiology
Michael completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the University of Melbourne in 2017 and is currently undertaking a PhD at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne. Michael’s research involves analysing large surveillance data to examine epidemiological trends in infectious diseases and evaluate large-scale public health interventions, with a particular focus on STI epidemiology among gay and bisexual men using the HIV prevention drug PrEP.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Michael will spend 6 months at the Fenway Institute in Boston under the supervision of world-renowned HIV researcher Professor Kenneth Mayer, to undertake a program of epidemiological research to further understand the impact of HIV PrEP on behavioural epidemiology and related health outcomes among sexual and gender minority populations.
CONSTANTINE TSOUNIS
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of New South Wales
Host: A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University
Field: Chemical Engineering/Materials Science
ISAAC TUCKER
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Queensland
Host: MIT/Harvard University
Field: Biotechnology
Constantine is a chemical engineer developing catalysts that can generate sustainable fuels such as hydrogen, supporting our global clean energy transition. He is currently pursuing a PhD in the Particles and Catalysis Research Group, UNSW, and has spent time researching at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), and ETH Zürich. Constantine is a co-founder of switcH2 engineering, a VC-backed start-up developing technologies which can convert industrial wastewater into hydrogen fuel. He is also an elected member of the UNSW Council, with a particular interest in university governance, research impact, and the interface between government, industry, and university.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Constantine will spend time researching a new class of materials known as MXenes, at their birthplace, the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute. The tailorable chemical properties of MXenes have the potential to revolutionise our energy systems. They can act as catalysts for key reactions that produce sustainable chemicals and fuels, accelerating our global net zero ambitions.
Isaac is a biotechnologist developing treatments for previously untreatable conditions. His PhD research focuses on transforming laboratory leads into peptide therapeutics for Irritable Bowel Disease and stroke. Through collaborative work with crucial domestic and international research organisations, he has strengthened his multi-disciplinary expertise in the biotechnology and business sectors.
Over the course of Isaac's Fulbright Future Scholarship, he will investigate novel technologies for the safe and targeted delivery of therapeutics throughout the body. Isaac aims to develop candidates ready for human trials by bringing together leading prowess at both Harvard and MIT, ultimately strengthening ties between leading Australian and US research groups.
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LIAM TURNER
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Monash University
Host: Washington State University
Field: Energy Engineering and Cryogenics
Liam is committed to accelerating the uptake of Hydrogen as a reduced carbon emission fuel for heavy transport. His current research is focussed on the design of liquid Hydrogen storage systems through his PhD studies with the Woodside-Monash Energy Partnership. Storing Hydrogen as a liquid can offer increased density and transportation efficiency compared to storing Hydrogen as a gas. However, liquid Hydrogen currently requires significant energy input for cooling and high capital costs for storage tank materials.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Liam will work with Jacob Leachman in the HYPER Lab at Washington State University to study the behaviour of liquid Hydrogen to inform the optimisation of large scale liquid Hydrogen storage designs.
EMILY WESTWOOD
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: The University of Queensland
Host: University of Colorado, Boulder
Field: Social Science
Emily’s PhD research focuses on the effects of environmental light exposures, including daylight and artificial light throughout the day, on sleep and circadian processes in young children. Her research contributes to growing evidence of the importance of light for children’s development, and lighting modification as a novel way to support sleep and health in children and families.
As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Emily will work with global leaders in the area supervised by Prof. Monique LeBourgeois. This overseas study will see her contribute to ground-breaking experimental research measuring light and sleep for young children in home environments.
YASMIN ZAMAN
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of New South Wales
Host: TBC
Field: Bioastronautics/Human Factors
Yasmin currently works in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer at the Australian Space Agency. She supports the development of technical roadmaps that will help shape the future of the Australian space industry. She graduated from the University of New South Wales with a dual degree in Aerospace Engineering and Science, majoring in Neuroscience. In 2020, Yasmin won the Western Sydney Young Woman of the Year award. Driven by her passion to break boundaries, she aims to create greater spaces for diversity in STEM and advance human space exploration.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Yasmin will be researching wearable neurotechnology to inform and improve the wellbeing of humans in space. She hopes for her work to contribute to and further Australia’s space life sciences capabilities. Yasmin ultimately aspires to become an astronaut, deploy her work in space and travel to Mars.
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KAMEL AWAYDA
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: University of Rochester
Host: The Australian National University
Field: Biology
Kamel Awayda is a graduate of the University of Rochester's Undergraduate Program in Biology and Medicine, having received a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. During his time at the University of Rochester, he became interested in RNA. Kamel’s research focuses on the ability of RNA molecules to be modified by the human protein THUMPD1, and the functional impacts of these modifications.
Kamel will work with Dr. Thomas Preiss, a renowned expert in RNA biochemistry at the Australian National University, to better understand the significance of THUMPD1 in the modification of small RNAs. As THUMPD1 has been identified as a candidate gene for disease, he hopes to uncover the mechanism by which a loss of function of this protein leads to negative outcomes.
ELI SCOTT BIERI
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Northern Michigan University
Host: University of New South Wales
Field: Biology
Eli is an amphibian biologist committed to using data to inform management decisions to produce positive conservation outcomes. While completing a Biology degree at Northern Michigan University, Eli led research projects and conservation initiatives around North and South America. He is currently working on a project that aims to better understand poison frog behavior in Peru.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Eli is studying amphibian responses to Australian bushfires in the context of deadly amphibian disease. He is excited to use this opportunity to learn from both Australian and American researchers about effective fire management and conservation techniques.
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American Student Awards
HAIDYN BULEN
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Arizona State University
Host: Hofer laboratory, University of Sydney
Field: Neuroscience
Haidyn completed a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Psychology at Barrett, the Honors College, at Arizona State University in 2020. Her current research focuses on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive neurodegenerative disease. Currently, no effective treatments exist to combat neurodegenerative diseases, making them a pressing public health issue as well as a devastating burden on both the individual and the family members.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Haidyn will complete a Master of Philosophy (Science) in Dr Markus Hofer’s laboratory at the University of Sydney, where she will investigate the role of two inflammatory factors in a number of neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease. Through the Fulbright Future Scholarship, she hopes to elucidate novel therapeutic drug candidates for debilitating diseases in which neuroinflammation appears to be playing a causative role.
MALLORY BURRELL
Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship
Home: James Madison University
Host: Western Sydney University
Field: Photography
Mallory graduated from Virginia Tech in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in art history and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art. She recently graduated from James Madison University in 2020 with a Master of Fine Arts in intermedia studies. Mallory is an artist that utilizes her camera to record microcosms and finds intrigue in cycles of ecological life.
For her Fulbright Scholarship, Mallory will investigate Sydney’s Badu Mangrove forest in the hopes of promoting mangroves as vital tools to mitigate greenhouse gas effects on the environment. She will primarily work with creative digital strategist Dr Rachel Bentley, and will receive additional support from forestry and drone specialist Dr Sebastian Pfautsch. Her research will culminate in an interactive website where users can experience life in the Badu mangrove forest, from the micro to the macro. Mallory's art practice can be further investigated at malloryburrell.com
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"My Fulbright research aims to determine how Australian frogs respond to bushfires across a diverse landscape. I will assess population persistence following both low-intensity and highintensity bushfire.
My degree at the University of New South Wales will offer me the skills I need to improve amphibian conservation around the world."
UNA CORBETT
Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship
Funded by Western Sydney University
Home: Harvard University
Host: Western Sydney University
Field: History and Literature
Una is a senior at the Harvard Kennedy School studying History and Literature on the American Studies track with a citation in Spanish. Her studies focus on American women’s and feminist history. She is from the New York suburbs and currently studying abroad at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland in the English and History departments. On campus, she is a College Fellow with Resistance School, an online activist training platform run by Kennedy School graduates, and a member of the Harvard College Democrats. She is also involved in feminist advocacy work with the Seneca, Inc. and Strong Women Strong Girls, and works as an HSA tutor and in the Cambridge Queenshead Pub. Una grew her research, writing, and political organizing skills in the office of the Chair of the Democratic National Committee.
TRISTRAM DODGE
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Stanford University
Host: University of Sydney
Field: Biology
Tris is currently a biology PhD candidate at Stanford University. His research focuses on how hybridization impacts the evolution of species. He is particularly interested in using the latest genome sequencing techniques to understand how contemporary populations of plants and animals are adapting to human-driven environmental change.
During his time in Sydney, Tris plans to explore hybridization as a strategy to introduce ancestral immune-gene diversity into endangered species. As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Tris is excited to work with some of University of Sydney’s leading conservation researchers. His goal is to learn and apply new genomic techniques to help conserve biodiversity in Australia and beyond.
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"...the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs, and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship."
- Senator J. William Fulbright
From the Foreword of The Fulbright Program: A History
LUCY MILANI FASANO Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship
Home: Davidson College
Host: Macquarie University
Field: Psychology
Lucy is a J.D. candidate at Duke University School of Law. While at Davidson College, she investigated the impact of popular media on rape myth acceptance using pupil dilation and eye/mouse tracking. Her research demonstrated that a person's bias towards survivors of sexual violence impacts how they watch media depictions of sexual violence.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Lucy will investigate whether embodiment in virtual environments can reduce bias in the context of sexual violence. By placing a man in the avatar of a woman, she hopes to reduce implicit bias by giving male participants the illusion of having a female identity.
SHELLAINA GORDON Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Northeastern University
Host: Sir Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre/ University of Melbourne
Field: Cancer Biology
Shellaina received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Northeastern University in 2021. During her undergraduate career, Shellaina gained a variety of research experiences ranging from antibody discovery to exploring secondary structures in DNA. Additionally, Shellaina is passionate about increasing diversity in the sciences as a means to decrease health disparities.
As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Shellaina aims to understand epigenetic factors that contribute to blood cancer development. While genetic contributors to cancer are well understood, epigenomic factors which alter gene expression and variation have not been well characterized. She hopes that her work can be used to find new therapeutic targets.
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"My Fulbright research aims to develop a method of eliminating implicit bias using embodiment in virtual environments.
Specifically, I plan to use virtual reality to help eliminate specific implicit biases against women that contribute to the victim-blaming of sexual violence survivors."
AUDRÉE GRAND'PIERRE
Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship
Home: Bowdoin College
Host: The University of Queensland
Field: Clinical Psychology
Audrée is a researcher working towards a better understanding of minority experiences in the treatment of mental health to create innovative ways for the psychology community to challenge racial inequalities and promote inclusion and diversity in all aspects of the field. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Visual Arts, and Anthropology from Bowdoin College and has clinical experience from the Maine Medical Research Institute. Blending her Psychology and Anthropology studies, Audrée gained a unique perspective of looking into psychological phenomena through the lens of an anthropologist looking at how cultural and social factors influence the ‘why' of human behavior. As a Fulbright Scholar, Audrée will be beginning her first year of her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Queensland. Specifically, her thesis will look into a lesser-explored, subtler form of prejudice within interracial encounters where minority group members often feel pressure to perform in a certain positive way to appease majority audiences and overcompensate for negative stereotypes about their race. Their emotional labor, she suggests, can lead to debilitating minority burnout, and psychological distress. Long term, Audrée hopes to one day start a coalition of licensed professionals to provide free mental health care to low-income and uninsured minority patients statistically less likely to seek mental health care in mainstream facilities.
LAUREN SUZANNE HELLER
Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy
Funded by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment
Home: Berea College
Host: Western Sydney University
Field: Public Health
In 2018, Lauren graduated from Berea College with a Bachelor of Arts in Health Science and a minor in Business Administration. During her time there, she became interested in the field of genetics and public health. This led Lauren to pursue her current role as a Clinical Translational Research Coordinator at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in the Division of Pediatric Medical Genetics. At Vanderbilt, she works to improve the lives of patients with complex and intriguing genetic disorders, such as Achondroplasia, Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorder, Angelman Syndrome, and Phenylketonuria.
Through her Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship, Lauren will attend Western Sydney University, where she will pursue a Master of Public Health degree. She will focus her studies on Public Health and its impact on marginalized populations in Australia. Lauren will also study Australia’s hybrid healthcare system and its history with Indigenous, migrant, and refugee populations.
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"My Fulbright research aims to further deepen the understanding of minority experiences through the lens of mental health to create innovative ways for the psychology community to challenge racial inequalities and promote inclusion and diversity in all aspects of the field."
JOELLE KIM
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Baylor University
Host: Sir Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Field: Cancer Immunology
Joelle received her Bachelor of Science from Baylor University, concentrating in biochemistry and genetics. Through scientific research at Baylor and beyond, she was amazed by the potential for modern biological technologies to revolutionize healthcare. In particular, she is interested in harnessing the power of the immune system to target cancer, and she aspires to make novel contributions for cancer medicine as a physician scientist.
For her Fulbright project, Joelle will work with Dr Paul Beavis and Professor Phil Darcy at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to engineer T cells that directly engage the host immune system and enhance immune activation against solid cancers, such as breast cancer and melanoma. She is hopeful that this research will contribute valuable insights into clinical applications and benefit Australian and American health in the universal fight against cancer.
ANNA LACHENAUER
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Stanford Medical School
Host: The University of Sydney
Field: Biology
Anna is a M.D. candidate at Stanford Medical School. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a secondary degree in Global Health and Health Policy from Harvard University in 2018. Prior to medical school, Anna developed genomic technologies to detect new and ongoing viral outbreaks, including Ebola and Lassa fever.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Anna will continue her research on pathogenic outbreaks at the University of Sydney. Working with renowned virologist Dr. Edward Holmes, she will use metagenomic techniques to investigate mechanisms by which pathogens emerge in new hosts, focusing on Australian tick-borne disease.
JADZIA LIVINGSTON
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: California Institute of Technology
Host: University of Melbourne
Field: Microbiology
Jadzia is a microbiologist interested in applying microbiological techniques and knowledge to large scale problems facing humanity, such as public health and climate change. For the past four years, she has worked in the Newman Lab at Caltech, developing fluorescence imaging methods to detect gene expression variation in bacterial pathogens in chronic infections. She has also worked at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, helping facilitate the Microbial Diversity course. In her Fulbright project, Jadzia will work with Professor Madeleine van Oppen and Professor Linda Blackall to study coral algae that have been cultivated to survive at higher temperatures. Jadzia plans to study the associated microbiota of the algae to determine whether they are responsible for that increased heat tolerance. She will use her findings to contribute to novel strategies for reef preservation.
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DANIEL MEZA
Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Host: Macquarie University
Field: Design
Daniel is a visual artist focused on exploring the intersection between art, design, and science. Recently, his work has focused on expression of organic growth across varying mediums. This has manifested as both digital simulations of organism growth in 3D space as well as integration of live organic matter (most commonly slime mold) into furniture.
With the Fulbright Future Scholarship, Daniel will work with the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University to continue developing methods for integration and preservation of slime mold into sculptural furniture pieces. The aim of this work is to dissect the current relationship between humans and nature as expressed through product design and art, while also exploring development of new, sustainable materials.
HELEN PELAK
Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship
Funded by Western Sydney University
Home: Kalamazoo College
Host: Western Sydney University
Field: Public Health
Helen completed a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Kalamazoo College in 2021. Her current research focuses on the United States' rate of cesarean section, with particular focus on the factors that contribute to medically unnecessary c-sections through the frameworks of Intersectionality and Reproductive Justice.
For Helen's Fulbright project, she will apply the knowledge that she has garnered from the U.S. system of maternal care in the Australian context, where she plans to complete a Master of Public Health while researching alongside Professor Hannah Dahlen in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
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"My Fulbright research aims to assess the factors that improve maternal and perinatal health outcomes, with particular focus on models of care and place of birth, as well as, to contribute to policy development that promotes natural birth and midwife-led care. This global perspective on maternal health will equip me with the skills I need to help guide maternal health policy in the United States."
STEPHANIE NIU Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship
Home: Stanford University
Host: University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, Shire of Christmas Island
Field: Digital History
Stephanie Niu is a digital storyteller and poet focused on decolonizing historical narratives and understanding ecological systems through digital techniques. Her work includes interactive geographic visualizations of the transcontinental railroad created for the Chinese Railroad Workers’ Project, and “Following the Water,” a podcast on human and animal migrations on Christmas Island.
Stephanie will use her Fulbright to build a series of self-guided, augmented reality walking tours exploring phosphate mine labor and race relations on Christmas Island, centered around physical remnants of 20th-century island mine operations. She hopes to create a model for community-driven archives as a way of resisting colonial narratives.
LUIS QUIJANO Fulbright Future Scholarship
Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation
Home: Liberty University
Host: Queensland University of Technology
Field: Fashion and Biotechnology
Luis is a fashion designer and biotextile researcher embracing interdisciplinary research for a more, sustainable world. Currently, he is an active member of the International Textile & Apparel Association (ITAA) and Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion (UCRF).
As a Fulbright Future Scholarship recipient, Luis will pursue his PhD studies in Fashion and Biotechnology at the Queensland University of Technology. His current research explores bacterial cellulose as an alternative leather for the textile and apparel industry at the intersection of design and biotechnology. Utilizing experimental methods in synthetic biology and genetic engineering, as well as design methods such as creative-based practice, his thesis focuses on improving and modifying bacterial cellulose so that it can become a commercial, eco-friendly fabric that involves minimal waste in comparison to natural and synthetic fabrics. Luis’ goal is that biomaterials can be developed to create sustainable pathways not only in fashion, but in any industry.
ELIZABETH
SCHMIDT
Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy
Funded by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment
Home: Kent State University
Host: Western Sydney University
Field: Public Policy
Elizabeth (Liz) earned her Bachelor of Arts in Applied Conflict Management from Kent State University's School of Peace and Conflict Studies. Liz's work and research have centered around immigration, grassroots peacebuilding, and narrative in identitybased conflict. With experience at the International Organization for Migration, the International Institute of Akron, Lighthouse Relief, and Kent State University's Center for Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services, Liz is dedicated to promoting migrants' rights, safety, and stories and the inclusion of diverse voices within communities.
For her Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship, Liz will conduct a policy and media analysis of global and Australian discourses concerning LGBTQ refugees for a Master of Research at Western Sydney University. Through her research, Liz aims to promote dialogue and further research on the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ people in displacement. She hopes that by bringing these challenges to awareness, stronger human rights protections can be developed to include LGBTQ people.
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SRIMAYI TENALI
Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy
Funded by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment
Home: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: University of Sydney
Field: Sustainability
Srimayi earned her Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2020, where she minored in Energy Studies. Srimayi’s work and interests have centered around sustainable development and the clean energy transition. Her experiences range from directing the annual MIT Energy Conference to developing curriculum for refugee education to sustainability advocacy work in her hometown. Most recently, she worked as a Solar Design Engineer at Nexamp, where she designed large-scale solar arrays and built energy models for grid-connected systems.
Through her Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship, Srimayi is pursuing the interdisciplinary Master of Sustainability degree at the University of Sydney. Srimayi is keen to combine her engineering experience with a broader approach to sustainability and hopes that the Fulbright experience will equip her to work on multinational transformations towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
GRACE WRIGHT
Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy
Funded by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment
Home: George Washington University
Host: University of Melbourne
Field: Public Policy
Grace is a public policy and international development practitioner committed to disability inclusive policy development. At World Education in Vientiane, Laos, she supported program implementation and monitoring for disability inclusion and rehabilitation, mine risk education, unexploded ordnance victims’ assistance, and entrepreneurship projects. While working on a social and behavior change communication campaign on access to services and employment for disabled people, she discovered the U.S. and Australia’s shared focus on disability inclusion. Most recently, she developed proposals for U.S. Agency for International Development projects in Asia. Grace earned her Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies and Political Science from the George Washington University.
Through her Fulbright Scholarship, Grace will pursue a Master of Public Policy and Management from the University of Melbourne and research the barriers disabled people face in disaster preparedness. She will use this experience to create, implement, and evaluate social, disaster response, and international development policy with a disability inclusive focus.
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"My Master of Public Policy and Management from the University of Melbourne will prepare me to create, implement, and evaluate social, disaster response, and international development policy with a disability inclusive focus."
Fulbright Scholarship Sponsors
The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, funded by the Australian National University is open to distinguished U.S. academics at the level of Associate Professor and Professor, the Distinguished Chair position aims to promote collaborative research between faculty in Australia and the United States in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian National University.
The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Science, Technology & Innovation, funded by CSIRO enables a U.S. senior academic to conduct innovative scientific research related to critical challenges facing the U.S. and Australia. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia’s leading multidisciplinary research organisation with a mission to deliver impact for the benefit of industry, society and the environment.
The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy, funded by Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon University-Australia allows distinguished academics to conduct collaborative research at both Flinders and CMU-A. The position is designed to increase the awareness of the field of applied public policy in Australia, and to promote comparative and collaborative research between Australia and the United States.
The Fulbright Distinguished Chair and and the Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship, funded by The University of Newcastle (UON) were established to support the development of research within UON’s areas of priority (known as Priority Research Centres). Awardees will contribute to various research areas, and assist the building of bilateral links between Australia and the U.S.
The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and the Fulbright Postdoctoral (Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow) Scholarship funded by RMIT University enable exceptional Australian and American scholars to undertake research and/or practice of importance to RMIT. The linking of the RMIT University Fellowship is aimed at solidifying the relationship between RMIT University and the host U.S. institution.
The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Advanced (Defence) Science and Technology, funded by the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) aims to attract outstanding U.S. researchers to creating ongoing bilateral collaborations and develop skills and capabilities in emerging fields of science and technology.
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The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Agriculture and Life Sciences and Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by Kansas State University provide unparalleled support to the development of key research areas. These scholarship opportunities allow senior academics to undertake diverse programs of research at Kansas State, leading to ongoing bilateral collaborations and partnerships.
The Fulbright Scholar Award in Resources & Energy, funded by Curtin University enables exceptional U.S. scholars to undertake research of importance to the bilateral relationship between Australia and the United States in the areas of resources and energy. Curtin University is an internationally recognized leader in research related to geosciences and resource engineering.
The Fulbright Scholar Award and Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship, funded by Florida Polytechnic University allow an Australian postgraduate student to undertake a 1 or 2-year master’s program, and an Australian scholar to conduct 3-4 months of research and teaching at Florida Polytechnic University. The University specialises in engineering, science, technology and mathematics.
The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by the University of Canberra enables exceptional U.S. scholars to undertake research in areas including environment, governance, health, sport, education and communication. The University of Canberra has a strong commitment to integrated learning and specializes in professional education and applied research.
The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by Central Queensland University Australia allows one American professional or academic to conduct 3-4 months research at one of CQUniversity Australia’s regional or metro campuses.
The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by the University of Wyoming enables one Australian scholar to undertake up to 6 months research and teaching at the University of Wyoming. Focus areas include public policy, political science and environmental science.
The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in AustralianAmerican Alliance Studies, funded by the Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was established in 2001 to recognise the 50th anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty. The award aims to contribute in a practical way to contemporary Australian scholarship on the Australia-United States Alliance.
The Fulbright Professional Coral Sea Scholarship (Business/ Industry) was originally established in 1992 by the Coral Sea Commemorative Council to recognise the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea. This scholarship supports bilateral acacdemic or professional opportunities relevant to Australian industry or business.
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The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by University of Technology Sydney will promote the development of key research areas important to the bilateral relationship between the United States and Australia, including data science, sustainability, and health. UTS is a world-class research-intensive institution with a rapidly growing reputation for its research quality and impact across a wide range of fields.
The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Vocational Education and Training, funded by the Australian Government, Department of Education, Skills and Employment, is for professionals within the vocational education and training sector or training leaders in business and industry. It provides skills and knowledge for work through a national training system.
The Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship, funded by Monash University is awarded to the most outstanding applicants and projects which directly address the grand challenges of our age, regardless of disciplinary background. In addition to academic merit, the projects must help strengthen the Australian bilateral relationship with the U.S.
The Fulbright Future Scholarships, funded by The Kinghorn Foundation are our most generous scholarships ever, offering fully-funded opportunities to Australian students, scholars and professionals. This unique, transformational opportunity is available to applicants whose projects have the potential to have a positive impact on the lives, livelihoods, health, well-being or prosperity of Australians.
The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Non-Profit Leadership, sponsored by Perpetual Ltd. and supported by the Australian Scholarships Foundation, is specifically focused on the Not-for-Profit (NFP) sector in Australia. The scholarship provides an enrichment opportunity for an emerging leader in the charitable NFP sector.
The Fulbright Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies, funded by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and the U.S. State Department was announced by Australian Government Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and the U.S. State Department in 2018 as part of the 'First 100 years of Mateship campaign', marking a century of the Australia-U.S. partnership.
The Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy is funded by the Australian Government, Department of Education, Skills and Employment. The award was established in 2009 to recognise the many contributions by Mrs Anne Wexler for her role in fostering Australian-American relations, supports public policyrelated study in a number of key areas.
The Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship, funded by Western Sydney University enables exceptional Postgraduate students from the United States to undertake research of importance to the bilateral relationship in areas of focus for Western Sydney University including environment, public health, and creative/ performing arts.
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The Fulbright Indigenous Scholarship, sponsored by the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) was established to recognise indigenous leaders of any academic or professional background, providing opportunities to gain international perspectives and collaboration through study and research.
The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by the University of Wollongong enables outstanding academics from the United States to undertake research with University of Wollongong academic teams on areas of mutual benefit to Australia and the United States. The award recipient will spend up to four months working in Wollongong, one of Australia's most picturesque university locations, conveniently located 60 minutes from Sydney.
The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by the Regional Universities Network of Australia (RUN) allows one American academic to conduct a 3-4 month research project at any of the network’s seven member institutions.
The Regional Universities Network (RUN) is a network of seven universities with headquarters in regional/rural Australia and a shared commitment to playing a transformative role in their regions.
The Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship, funded by Deakin University enables postdoctoral candidates from the U.S to undertake research that is strategically aligned with Deakin’s research strengths. This Scholarship will be awarded to the most outstanding applicants with projects that align directly with Deakin’s aim to make a difference to the community and/or industry. This scholarship supports a 3-10 month position.
The Fulbright WG Walker Scholarship is awarded to the top-ranked Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar annually. The WG Walker Scholarship Fund is the proud legacy of the Australian Fulbright Alumni Association (AFAA). This fund is held and administered by the Commission and is open for donations by all alumni. Professor Bill Walker, a twotime Fulbright winner, was instrumental in launching AFAA during Australia’s 40th Anniversary Fulbright celebrations and served as the Association’s first president. Following Prof. Walker’s passing, at the 1992 AFAA Annual General Meeting it was decided that an annual Fulbright Scholarship would be offered in his name. Named the W G Walker Memorial Fulbright Scholarship, it was to be funded in part from annual member subscriptions and in part from the AustralianAmerican Fulbright Commission. The first WG Walker Fulbright Scholarship was awarded in 1993 and has since been an annual award.
Fulbright State/Territory Scholarships have been established for each State and Territory in Australia.These scholarships are supported by State/ Territory governments, companies, universities, and private donors. Their aim is to encourage research relevant to the State, and assist the building of international research links between each State and U.S. research institutions.
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2022 Fulbright Gala Sponsors
"Perhaps the greatest power of such intellectual exchange is to convert nations into peoples and to translate ideologies into human aspirations.
To continue to build more weapons, especially more exotic and unpredictable machines of war, will not build trust and confidence.
The most sensible way to do that is to engage the parties in joint ventures for mutually constructive and beneficial purposes, such as trade, medical research, and development of cheaper energy sources.
To formulate and negotiate agreements of this kind requires well-educated people leading or advising our government.
To this purpose the Fulbright program is dedicated."
- Senator J. William Fulbright
Remarks from the 30th anniversary of the Fulbright Program, 1976
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“I have thought of everything I can think of, and the one thing that gives me some hope is the ethos that underlies the educational exchange program. That ethos, in sum, is the belief that international relations can be improved, and the danger of war significantly reduced, by producing generations of leaders, especially in the big countries, who through the experience of educational exchange, will have acquired some feeling and understanding of other peoples’ cultures--why they operate as they do, why they think as they do, why they react as they do--and of the differences among these cultures. It is possible-not very probable, but possible--that people can find in themselves, through intercultural education, the ways and means of living together in peace. ....Man’s struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for understanding among all peoples and all cultures--a search that can only be effective when learning is pursued on a worldwide basis.” --
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Senator J. William Fulbright, The Fulbright Program: A History
Fulbright Australia
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