top 50 Engineers for innovation. Her research team collaborated with industry to provide pragmatic, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable solutions to a diverse range of issues, with the aim of improving human wellbeing. After completion of her PhD degree at UNSW, she received the prestigious Australian Research Council Postdoctoral fellowship and continued working at UNSW as a senior research fellow and senior lecturer. She played a major role in the establishment of a R&D Company with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facility and developed technologies and products that were sub-licensed to industries. Since joining the University of Sydney in 2006, she established a state-of-the-art bioengineering laboratory enabling multidisciplinary research collaboration. She promotes entrepreneurial engagement, resulting in four start-up companies being established by her research members. The focus of her current research is on developing biomaterials for medical devices, biosensors and nutraceuticals and food for promoting human health and environmental sustainability.

He has more than 50 publications, 4 patents and his H-index is 18 reflecting work on multi-disciplinary projects involving therapeutic proteins, natural bioactive compounds, tissue scaffolds and drug delivery devices. Peter has more than 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and clinical diagnostics industry.

and commercialisation of products and start-ups. Highlights of his career include working as Chief Executive Officer of AgriGen Biotech where he expanded the business operations throughout Asia including sites in India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and China. AgriGen has experienced rapid expansion of its off-shore due to demand of its unique analytical testing platform and the systems. Ross holds a Bachelor of Science from Monash University (Biochemistry & Pharma- cology) and a Master of Business Administration from Victoria University. He is an APEC Card holder, Member of the Melbourne Cricket Club Member.

at the Nippon Roche Research Center (Kamakurra, Japan) before joining Biotech Australia in Sydney, Australia. In his role at Biotech Australia Dr. Richardson engineered bacterial, yeast, insect and mammalian cell systems to produce recombinant and non-recombinant proteins for ‘in-vitro’, animal and human trials of potential therapeutic treatments. As Director of Science at Isolagen Australia Dr. Richardson was involved in the production, QC, QA, and release for sale of a TGA licensed product (under the TGA cGMP code for ‘Human Blood and Tissue). At NuSep (Sydney, Australia), Dr. Richardson developed In vitro diagnostic (IVD) reagents (for the detection of Lupus and von Willebrand diseases) for sale in the Australian market. Later, as Operations Manager, he was responsible for the production of pre-cast polyacrylamide gels sold worldwide

heterogeneous catalytic systems. His innovative research that he has pioneered is utilized by industries to remove sulfur from organosulfur compounds present in petroleum-based feedstock which is crucial both environmentally and commercially. More recently, Prof. Kabir, in collaboration with Khan’s group of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, has focused his attention towards developing natural and synthetic polymer blend composites. These elegant studies proved that the eco-friendly bio-degradable packaging material based on natural and synthetic polymers may be a good replacement of conventional synthetic packaging material. Prof. Kabir has built an active research group in organometallic cluster chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry in the department of chemistry at Jahangirnagar University. So far twenty-five Ph. D. and three M. Phil. students successfully obtained respective degrees under his supervision. Currently, fifteen M. Sc., M. Phil. and Ph. D. students are working on the various aspects of cluster chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry. Prof. Kabir presently holds and has held many strong administrative positions: Member Bangladesh Public Service Commission (2012- 2017); Vice-Chancellor (2009-2012), Treasurer (1998-2001), Chairman (2007-2009), Senate member (1998-present), and Syndicate member (2015-present) at Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh He has maintained academic appointment, positions and research collaboration with number of universities worldwide includes University College London, UK; California State University Northridge, USA; University of Montana, USA; Freiburg University, Germany and Lund University, Sweden. He has published 324 research papers in prestigious Journals and reviewer of reputed International and National Journals. He has also made distinct contributions in mentoring young colleagues and scientists by fostering diversity and developing research facilities. Many students trained in his laboratory are currently working in various research institutions, industries and universities within the country and abroad successfully