ISEM Awards

Each year ISEM selects outstanding postgraduate students in a number of categories.

In recognition of their research efforts, these students are presented with a Certificate to mark their achievements, together with a cash prize.

2008

Postgraduate Student Excellence Awards - $500 prize

Shulei Chou
In recognition of the excellent performance in his PhD research program.

Wenxian Li
In recognition of the excellent performance in his PhD research program.

Stuart Hargreaves
In recognition of the excellent performance in his PhD research program.

Best Postgraduate Published Paper Award - $200 prize

Rashmi Nigam
In recognition of her significant contribution to the paper published in Physics Review B.

Hao Liu
In recognition of his significant contribution to the papers published in Electrochemistry Communications.

2007

Postgraduate Student Excellence Awards - $500 prize

Sau Yen Chew
In recognition of the excellent performance in her PhD research program.

Xun (Joe) Xu
In recognition of the excellent performance in his PhD research program.

Best Postgraduate Published Paper Award - $250 prize

Olga Shcherbakova
In recognition of her significant contribution to the papers published in Physics Review Letters.

Min Sik Park
In recognition of his significant contribution to the papers published in Angewandte Chemie International Ed (2007).

2006

Postgraduate Student Excellence Awards - $500 prize

Wai Kong Yeoh  
In recognition of his research endeavours and his dedication in pursuing magnesium dibioride research.

See How (Desmond) Ng
In recognition of his research endeavours and his dedication in pursuing research of materials for electrodes in rechargeable Li-ion batteries.

Postgraduate Student Merit Award - $250 prize

Rashmi Nigam
In recognition of her dedication in researching coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnestism in Ru based high temperature superconudctors.

Best Postgraduate Published Paper Award - $250 prize

Germanas Peleckis
In recognition of his significant contribution to papers published in Applied Physics Letters.

2005

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award - $1,000 prize

Serhiy Pysarenko  
In recognition of his research endeavours and his dedication in pursuing multi-layered high temperature superconductors.

Postgraduate Student Merit Award - $250 prize

Min Sik Park
In recognition of his dedication in micro-batteries and semiconducting nanowires research.

2004

Postgraduate Student Excellence Awards - $500 prize

Scott Andrew Needham
In recognition of his research endeavours and his dedication in pursuing battery materials research.

Germanas Peleckis
In recognition of his research endeavours and his dedication in pursuing research of oxide spintronic materials.

Postgraduate Student Merit Awards - $200 prize

Zhenguo (Bernie) Huang
In recognition of his dedication in hydrogen storage materials research.

See How (Desmond) Ng
In recognition of his significant contribution to research on cathode and anode materials for Li-ion batteries.

Olga Shcherbakova
In recognition of her hard work on the magnesium diboride superconductor research.

Mark O'Dwyer
In recognition of his achievements in the research of thermionic cooling and power generation.

Best Postgraduate Published Paper Award - $250 prize

Brad Winton
In recognition of his significant contribution to papers published in Applied Physics Letters.

2003

Postgraduate Student Excellence Awards - $1,000 prize

Y. Zhao
In recognition of his research endeavours and his dedication in pursuing superconducting thin films research.

Postgraduate Student Merit Awards - $200 prize

Q.W. Yao
In regonition of his dedication and hard work on colossal magneto resistance materials research.

M. Roussel
In recognition of her significant contribution to the magneto-optical imaging study in superconducting tapes.

Y. Chen
In recognition of her dedication and hard work on improving anode and cathode materials processing for Li-ion Batteries.

S. Bewlay
In recognition of hisdedication and hard work on improving cathode materials processing for Li-ion Batteries.

Best Postgraduate Published Paper Award - $250 prize

Saeid Soltanian
In recognition of his significant contribution to papers published in Physical Review B.

W.K. Yeoh
In recognition of his significant contribution to papers published in Applied Physics Letters.

2002

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award - $1,000 prize

S. Keshavarzi

Postgraduate Student Merit Awards - $200 prize

S. Bewlay

Matthew Lindsay

Saeid Soltanian

S. Zhou

2001

Outstanding Thesis Award (Faculty Award) - $1,000 prize

Guoxiu Wang

Postgraduate Student Excellence Award - $1,000 prize

Saeid Soltanian
In recognition of his research performance.

Postgraduate Student Merit Awards - $200 prize

Matthew Lindsay
In regonition of his significant contribution to laboratory development  and IT services.

Zaiping Guo
In recognition of her consistent endeavours to improve research outcomes.

Krishna Uprety
In recognition of her excellent performance in research and research collaboration.

Ben Lough
In recognition of excellent theoretical and experiment development in his thesis work.