Laena D’Alton
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Excellence in Research Leadership Award for Chamindie Punyadeera
Congratulations to MOBIUS’ Deputy Director, Professor Chamindie Punyadeera, for receiving the Griffith University 2025 Vice Chancellor’s Excellence in Research Leadership Award. Chamindie is an outstanding innovator – with a hybrid industry/academia career – and advocate for women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM). Well deserved award, Chamindie, we are very proud!
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Promotions for four of MOBIUS’ outstanding researchers!
A big congratulations to four of MOBIUS’ stellar researchers, Ing Kong, Noushin Nasiri, Steve Petrovski and Saimon M. Silva, who have recently received promotions! Noushin Nasiri (Macquarie University), promoted to Professor. Noushin is an expert in the design, functionalisation and application of nanostructured materials, and translating these into miniaturised sensor technologies and wearables. Ing Kong (School of Computing, Engineering…
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Affiliate PhD Candidate, Vatsala Pithaih, wins microTAS prize
Congratulations to MOBIUS-affiliated PhD candidate, Vatsala Pithaih, who has won microTAS’s ‘Young Researcher Poster Award’, for her poster ‘Duplex DNAse signal amplification allows attomolar electrochemical detection of microRNAs’. Well done, Vatsala!
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Noushin Nasiri awarded ATSE’s David and Valerie Solomon Award
Congratulations to MOBIUS lead researcher, Associate Professor Noushin Nasiri, on being awarded the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering‘s David and Valerie Solomon Award! Professor Nasiri is internationally recognised for her trailblazing engineering of functional nanomaterials. Her research has overturned longstanding limitations in nanosensor design, leading to transformative advances in flexible, high-performance sensors for…
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MOBIUS Webinar – Lighting up sewers: optical fibre sensors for smarter, safer infrastructure
We were pleased to launch the MOBIUS webinar series with ‘Lighting up sewers: optical fibre sensors for smarter, safer infrastructure‘, presented by Dr Martin Ams on Tuesday 25 November, 2-3pm AEDT. Abstract Beneath our feet lies a hidden world of concrete tunnels, pipes, and wastewater networks quietly keeping our cities alive. But as these ageing…
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LIMS/MOBIUS Seminar: At the Interface of Materials and Medicine
La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS)/MOBIUS co-hosted seminar, ‘At the Interface of Materials and Medicine: Technologies for Implants and Point-of-Care Diagnostics’, held on 10 November 2025. We heard about the role that biomedical engineering and materials play in implants and point-of-care diagnostics. The seminar was accessible in-person or online. Chair Professor Conor Hogan, Director,…
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Training and Development Webinar: IP, commercialisation, and confidentiality
We were delighted to hold our second MOBIUS Training and Development Webinar on ‘IP, commercialisation, and confidentiality’ on 13 October, 2025. It was a fantastic event to upskill early- and mid-career researchers on intellectual property (IP) and how to protect it; IP policies; confidentiality; invention disclosures; the commercialisation process; and business development. With thanks to…
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MOBIUS at Biosensors × Space: Vital Monitoring for Earth and Space
MOBIUS was delighted to sponsor the Biosensors x Space Workshop at La Trobe University’s City Campus on 6 October 2025, exploring how biosensors are shaping the future of both terrestrial healthcare and space medicine. The workshop brought together researchers, engineers, clinicians, med-tech, and space industry partners to discuss biosensing innovations across hardware, validation, data pipelines,…
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MOBIUS PhD Confirmation Seminar: Ben McKenzie
Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Ben McKenzie (La Trobe University), who delivered his confirmation seminar on 7 October 2025, on ‘Electrochemical biosensing using smartphones’. qPCR is the gold standard nucleic acid amplification technique used for nucleic acid detection in biosensing. However, with existing technologies, a low-cost, low-burden, point-of-use sensing technology is not available. LAMP is a…
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77th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry
DATE: 6-11 September 2026. LOCATION: Sydney, Australia. The scientific program offers Plenary Lectures, Symposia, Tutorials related to the following fields of electrochemistry: