Exemplary Energy had the great pleasure of supporting student talent at the recent Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference (APSRC) by supporting three awards to the finest student researchers based on the quality of the extended abstract and the oral presentation or poster:
- boosting the Wal Read Memorial Award for Best Student Poster;
- creating the John Ballinger Award for Best Buildings-related Student Poster or Presentation; and
- sponsoring the Monica Oliphant Prize for Best Female Student Poster.
The Wal Read Memorial Award for Best Student Poster was awarded to Ryan Hall, a PhD candidate at UNSW Sydney, for his research titled “Top Cell Materials Via High-Throughput Materials Screening And Density Functional Theory Calculations”.
Exemplary Energy’s executive director Trevor Lee (fourth from the left) with the recipients of the APSRC 2021 student prizes. Ryan Hall, winner of the APSRC 2021 Wal Read Memorial Award, is second from the right. Milad Mohsenzadeh, recipient of the John Ballinger Award, is on the far left.
The John Ballinger Award for Best Buildings-related Student Presentation was awarded to Milad Mohsenzadeh, a PhD candidate for the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Group at the University of Melbourne for his paper on “An Innovative Cost-effective Floating Solar Still with Integrated Condensation Coils”. Mr Mohsenzadeh’s PhD research project focusses on developing an innovative solar-driven desalination technique for producing drinking water in remote areas. He has published seven papers, and also holds an award-winning patent on innovative concentrated photovoltaic thermal solar collector.
The Monica Oliphant Prize for Best Female Student Poster went to Shukla Poddar, a PhD student in the School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW Sydney, for her work on “Characterization of Solar Ramps across Australia”. Ms Poddar’s PhD research involves estimating future solar PV productivity over Australia at all timescales and understanding the impacts of climate change on future solar PV productivity using high resolution climate models.
Shukla Poddar, the recipient of the APSRC 2021 Monica Oliphant Prize
Exemplary Energy congratulates all the recipients of the APSRC 2021 awards, and wishes them all the very best in their research endeavours.