Faculty of Science
ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
The Academic Procession proceeds to the dais, the Assembly standing. The University Mace is carried by Emeritus Professor Brynn Hibbert AM, BSc PhD London, CChem, FRSC, FRACI, FRSN
NATIONAL ANTHEM
Advance Australia Fair
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are one and free;
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil;
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
In history’s page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.
WELCOME
Pro-Chancellor, Professor Merlin Crossley, BSc Melbourne, DPhil Oxon
ADMISSION TO AWARDS
Associate Professor Alison Beavis, BSc(Hons) PhD UTS, Deputy Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Science requests the Pro-Chancellor, on behalf of the University Council, to admit candidates to awards
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Nick Bartlett
OCCASIONAL ADDRESS
Emeritus Scientia Professor Trevor McDougall AC FRS FAA FAGU FRSN, Head of the School of Social Sciences and Co-Convener of the UNSW Gendered Violence Research Network
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Associate Professor Alison Beavis, BSc(Hons) PhD UTS, Deputy Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Science
Following the Concluding Remarks, the Assembly will stand while the Academic Procession retires.
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS) BAdvSci(Hons)
Honours Class 1
Medical Science
Thi Hoang Lien Phan
Microbiology
Alex Chen Lu
Karishma Thevathasan
Monika Vesse
Physics
Jahanvi Jaiprakash Maheshwari
BACHELOR OF AVIATION BAv
Aviation (Flying)
Anargyros Andy Poulikakos
Distinction
Dennis Kin Chun Cho
Rahul Rajeev Kumar
Jay Sandip Patel
Nathan Jacob Vassallo
Management
Melissa Rose Ardern
Long Jiao
Shing Chak Ng
Fridurik Hylton Nickel
Chloe Amanda North
Jonathan Pan
Kirralee Rose Smith
Kevin Tran
Maurice Tran
Sachiv Raj Verma
Kevin Mo Peng Wang
Cheuk Fung Yeung
Distinction
U Kei Li
BACHELOR OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (HONOURS) BBiotech(Hons)
Honours Class 1
Xinyu Li
BACHELOR OF DATA SCIENCE AND DECISIONS BDataSci
Viraj Srikar Danthurty
Sydney Fiona Hampton
Sarujan Kajendran
Joo Ha Kim
Dharshini Loganathan
Phoebe Michelle Shan Shan Loh
Dharan Ravichander
Oreoluwa Abdulrahman Salami
Harrison Martin Salmon
James Alan Smith
Mengke Yu
Yin Zhu
Distinction
Kai Mike Mashimo
Om Singh
Aileen Huilin Wang
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONOURS) BE(Hons)
Materials Science and Engineering (Ceramic Engineering)
Honours Class 2 Division 2
Jonathan Ren
Materials Science and Engineering (Materials Engineering)
Honours Class 2 Division 2
Tianyou Wang
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Chun King Aaron Manho
John Mok
Honours Class 1
Rebecca Ann Ninan
BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT BEnvMgmt
Cameron Clancy Hutcherson
Distinction
Tali Anne Bloomfield
Kim Boi Dinh
BACHELOR OF LIFE SCIENCES BLS
Jed Thomas Kell Corbett
Benjamin John Di Campli
Leo Thomas Lovesy
Yujie Pan
BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE BPsychSc
Keshia Dorothy Ambosta
Selma Bensaidi
Ethan Mark Bettenay
Victor Christianos
Elizabeth Gruber
Bich San Ho
Nyah Charlotte Kaye
Hannah Asano Lardner
Sherese Joan Lee
Xiaoyang Li
Jxin Ying Lim
Jessica Anne Lynch
Bani Mukker
Chloe Isabelle Obluda
Angela Soh
Eugenia Ka Yee Ta
Laura Grace Waller
Zhong Yao Judie Wang
Wanqing Yi
Distinction
Maggie Rong Chen
Nicoleta Kasselakis
Jasmine Lee
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE AND BUSINESS BSc and Bus
Hannah Patterson Bell
Maddison Alexandra Dario
Zhen Li
Carey Alun Maeder
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BSc
Jackson Edward Armstrong
Sishuo Chen
Dylan James Chircop
Daniel Kyong Ju Cho
Weizhe Diao
Skye Clare Gregory
Ayman Bin Haque
Paboda Barani Hewadewa
Dillys Huang
Caixin Li
Campbell Joshua Maconachie
Yin Ting Leonard Ong
Mia Port
Yuehui Qiu
Jayden Thomas Rothwell
Stephanie Eugenia Skiadopoulos
Ariane Talosig
Vanessa Thanh Vu
Guanshu Wang
Yingjian Wang
Yujia Wang
Ruiyin Xu
Siqi Xu
Distinction
Gabrielle de Vries
Alexandra Elizabeth Gray
Kexin Huang
Kang Liang
Xinyi Qin
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) BSc(Hons)
Aviation
Honours Class 2 Division 2
Nishant Kana Jayaram
Genetics
Honours Class 1
Hoor E Maksura
Materials Science
Honours Class 1
Duoduo Zhao
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS BSc BA
Pang Sean Ho
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Distinction
BACHELOR OF ARTS BSc BA
Bonita Jay Hammond-Brown
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND POLICY BSc BSRP
Sky Si Jia Zhang
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Distinction
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND POLICY BSc BSRP
Distinction
Annabel Jean Tooth
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS)
Honours Class 1
Microbiology
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND POLICY BAdvSci(Hons) BSRP
Distinction
Emma Clare Chapman
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS)
Honours Class 1 and The University Medal
Chemistry
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND POLICY BAdvSci(Hons) BSRP
Distinction
Alan Chen
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS)
Honours Class 1
Chemistry
BACHELOR OF ARTS BAdvSci(Hons) BA
Sophie Alice Booth
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ADVANCED MATHEMATICS) (HONOURS) BSc(AdvMath)(Hons)
Honours Class 1
Pure Mathematics
Kirtik Singh
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Distinction
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ADVANCED MATHEMATICS) (HONOURS) BSc BSc(AdvMath)(Hons)
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Applied Mathematics
Minghao Mo
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN DATA SCIENCE GCDS
Santosh Kumar Choudhary
Conor David Murphy
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN AVIATION MANAGEMENT GradDipAvMgmt
Matthew Robert Briggs
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGY GDPsych
Imogen Frances Blackie
Lucy Frances Donnelly
Kim Mary Theresa Hamilton
Maddison Ella-Louise Hawkins
Gerard Anthony Hord
Nageen Hussain
Madeline Claire Sarich
Yufei Zhong
BACHELOR OF AVIATION
Management
Distinction
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN FLYING BAv GradDip(Flying)
Alexander Ignatius Durham
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONOURS)
Functional Materials
Honours Class 2 Division 2
MASTER OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BE(Hons) MBiomedE
Alvis Jun Wei Leung
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Alex Elie Ajaka
Jason Feng
Daniel Qi-Zhen Lu
MASTER OF AVIATION MANAGEMENT MAvMgmt
Chon Kou
Ka Ho Lai
Tony Alexander Rausseo
Claire Francesca Candado Solano
Excellence
Emma Clare Zeitz
MASTER OF DATA SCIENCE MDS
Ben Behar
Prashanth Bharamasagara Gopinath
Dialah Reyad Rashid A Hamdan El Madi
Chun Yin Bernard Lo
Sreedevi Nandakumar
Ho Yin Joshua Yu
Excellence
Alexander George Bush
Matthew Richard Carter
Phu Minh Dinh
Philip Jan Firns-Seifert
Craig John Hennessy
Vernon Cao Lam
David Rovere
Omair Hassan Shah Syed
Svetlana Temirov
Liam Vincent Walsh
Xiting Yang
MASTER OF DATA SCIENCE AND DECISIONS MDataSci
Wenxi Gao
MASTER OF FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS MFinMath
Baicheng Zhu
MASTER OF MARINE SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT MMarScMgt
Yening Tang
Excellence
Julianto Saut Hamonangan
MASTER OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY MMatTech
Excellence
Vipul Agarwal
MASTER OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY MPhysOc
Ayden Leigh Bauer
MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (FORENSIC) MPsychol(For)
Excellence
Lachlan Bowden Smith
MASTER OF STATISTICS MStats
Jarrod Edward Glinski
Jingyang Wu
Excellence
Yu Xiang
MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY MPhil
Geoscience
Isabelle Carina Greco
Material Science and Engineering
Qiuzhe Hu
Vision Sciences
Leyla Haghzare
MASTER OF SCIENCE (RESEARCH) MSc(Res)
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Grace Lindner
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PhD
Biological Science
Harrison Jeffrey Francis Eyck
Thesis: Molecular and behavioural ecology of nematodes during a biological invasion
Roy Minden Farman
Thesis: Three-dimensional analyses of Australian fossil frogs with implications on taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology
Thomas Le Breton
Thesis: Multiscale changes to fire regimes and consequences for plant conservation
Rebecca Raynal
Thesis: The impact of naturalistic temperatures on ectotherm phenotype
Alexandria Thomsen
Thesis: Shifting fire regime elements and their impacts on plant persistence at multiple scales
Benjamin James Joseph Walker
Thesis: The evolution of extreme acoustic traits: animal source levels and sound propagation
Biotechnology
Sin Yin Wong
Thesis: Mosaics of Windmill Islands, East Antarctica
Chemistry
Claudia Sigourney Cox
Thesis: Enhancing Heavy Metal Removal from Water with the UiO-66 Metal-Organic Framework: Untangling the Synthesis, Structure, and Performance Relationships
Hong Thien Kim Duong
Thesis: Highly Monodispersed Magnetic Nanoparticles for Different Biomedical Applications in Magnetic Particle Imaging
Jason Holland
Thesis: Development of Rare Earth Metal Organic Frameworks as Theranostic Materials
Kevin Mariandry
Thesis: Synthesis and Characterisation of Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Improved Activity in Electrocatalyic Reactions
Zeno Rizqi Ramadhan
Thesis: Controlling Stacking Faults, Surface Facets and Phase Boundaries in Ni and Co as Active Sites for Enhanced Biomass Oxidation and Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Patrick Thomas Ryan
Thesis: Strategies to make and break the carbon-fluorine bond
Maria Ai Kristine Pajulas Tolentino
Thesis: Migration of cytotoxic T lymphocytes in 3D bioprinted PEG-based hydrogels
Juan Camilo Zapata Trujillo
Thesis: Quantum chemistry meets astrobiology: Approximate vibrational spectral data for potential biosignatures
Climate Science
Marzie Naserikia
Thesis: Urban Heat: The role of urban land cover, background climate, and seasonality
Materials Science and Engineering
Pradeep Raja Anandan
Thesis: Tuning the Photoluminescence Properties and Performance of Poly (vinylidene fluoride) Coordinated Hybrid Perovskite Nanocomposites for Photoelectrochemical Cells
Fandi Chen
Thesis: Exploring Solution Processed Nanoionic Materials for Neuromorphic Devices Applications
Dali Ji
Thesis: Angstrom-Confined Electrochemical Synthesis of Sub-Unit-Cell Non-Van Der Waals 2D Metal Oxides and its Applications
Yang Liu
Thesis: Perovskite Oxide for Electrocatalysis and Optoelectronics: From Epitaxial Heterostructure to Freestanding Nanomembrane
Mathematics and Statistics
Daniel Boettger
Thesis: The energetic, kinematic and geometric inception of wave breaking in deep and intermediate water
Molecular Genetics
Allegra Angeloni
Thesis: DNA methylation in evolution, development, and disease
Physics
Kirsten Alexandra Banks
Thesis: The Spectroscopic Disambiguation of the Red Clump from the Red Giant Branch
Giovanni Pierobon
Thesis: Axions and dark matter: from early Universe to present-day distribution
Psychology
Sally Hopwood
Thesis: Cognitive Mechanisms Linking Attachment Style and Posttraumatic Stress
Danielle Matsuo
Thesis: Making sense of a senseless act – Examining similarities and differences in the psychological characteristics and offence pathways of suddenly violent and historically violent homicide offenders
Savannah Brooke Minihan
Thesis: Socio-affective influences on adolescent mental health problems
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Psychology (Clinical)
MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) PhD MPsychol(Clin)
Sophie Champion
Thesis: Excessive Reassurance Seeking in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Expanding the Theoretical Model and Supporting Caregiver Management
Emma Victoria Long
Thesis: Beyond the Plate: Understanding the Social Precilitation of Food Intake