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Stockyard Industries expands its team and welcomes Tin Phung
Early career scientists reveal research with a difference
TIN Phung will take on the role of terri- tory sales representa- tive for Stockyard.
Tin has come from more than 20 years’ experience in the poul- try industry.
After graduating from an Agricultural Sci- ence degree at the Uni- versity of Melbourne in 1998, Tin then worked with broiler breeders for eight years.
Tin Phung
In 2007 he switched to the layer industry, working for Hy-Line Australia.
Tin joined Hy-Line International in 2013 as technical service manager for South- East Asia covering 12 countries.
Tin will be based in Bendigo, Victoria but will travel extensively throughout Australia to service Stockyard Industries’ customer base.
Tin can be contacted on 0400 075 193 or tin@stockyardindus tries.com
Tin has always en- joyed working in the poultry industry and is eager to start his next chapter in his career and meet our poultry and pig customers to discuss equipment and project needs.
DYNAMIC, innovative and enthusiastic best de- scribes the five talented early career researchers who presented at ‘Col- laborate Innovate 2019’, the annual conference of the Cooperative Research Centres Association at the Adelaide Hilton, May 28- 30.
They delivered five- minute oral pitches on their research, covering low-carbon housing, re- newable energy, brain dis- orders, outer space and ulcers as the finalists in an outstanding field of 41 video entries.
CRCA CEO Dr Tony Peacock said entrants sub- mitted 30-second videos demonstrating they could convey the aim of their research clearly and ef- fectively.
“Judges then looked for entrants who demonstrat- ed excellent oral presenta- tion skills and most fa- vourably those who could best articulate research likely to make a differ- ence,” he said.
“In Australia’s competi- tive research landscape, young scientists often face uncertainty in fund- ing and job security.
“The awards, sponsored
by CQ University, rec- ognise and support early career researchers who’ve demonstrated excellence not only in the laboratory but in communicating their science.”
The finalists are Tan- ya Babaeff and Lio He- bert, both of the CRC for Low Carbon Living; Ricardo Mesquita, Edith Cowan University; Joseph O’Leary, Space Environ- ment Management CRC; and Christina Parker, Queensland University of Technology.
Ms Babaeff, in her pres- entation ‘Mainstreaming low carbon housing pre- cincts’ said cities were major contributors to cli- mate change.
“So, changing the way we develop our neigh- bourhoods is critical to survival, yet contempo- rary planning and devel- opment practices fail to meet this challenge, still producing unsustainable housing precincts,” she said.
“To assist urban plan- ners and developers to better facilitate insti- tutional change, my re- search identifies how a recent residential develop- ment project, which began
with a business-as-usual approach, ended up trans- forming towards innova- tion.”
Mr Hebert, in his pres- entation ‘New approach to integrate renewable ener- gy into our network’ said renewable energy and par- ticularly customer-owned rooftop solar greatly helped countries reduce their carbon footprint and customers reduce their electricity bills.
“However, utilities struggle with the way re- newables are integrated into our grid and the latter might either collapse or limit the amount of re- newable,” he said.
“I’ve taken a new ap- proach, developing a busi- ness model for solar and battery to optimise the grid, reduce our electric- ity bills and unleash the potential for a zero-car- bon future.”
Mr Mesquita, in his presentation ‘These nerve cells are on fire – are they?” said the mecha- nisms from the brain to the muscle that underpin fatigue were not yet fully described.
“Your brain does not directly command your muscles to move,” he said.
“Halfway, we have amazing nerve cells that speed up the information that is sent to the muscles.
“I aim to find if this increase in signal speed is impaired during exercise.
“The techniques I use will potentially be used in the clinic to assess people with neurological disor- ders.”
Mr O’Leary, in his pres- entation ‘General relativ- istic and post-Newtonian dynamics for near-earth objects and solar system bodies’ said classical the- ories of gravity were not sufficient for describing the motion of near-earth objects such as GPS satel- lites.
“Small departures from Newtonian gravity re- quire that general relativ- istic effects be taken into account for accurate time- keeping and satellite orbit prediction,” he said.
“My PhD focuses on the mechanics of near-earth objects in a relativistic framework, simulating satellite orbits and com- paring with classical mod- els.”
Dr Parker, in her pres- entation ‘Predicting the likelihood of non-healing: A venous leg ulcer risk assessment tool’ said her research had identified early predictors of non- healing in venous leg ul- cers that had contributed to an innovative tool for their early detection of these ulcers.
“This tool has shown good results for reliability and validity and is being tested internationally,” she said.
“Identifying risk factors for delayed healing is an opportunity to implement adjuvant interventions and routine care at an early stage and determine real- istic outcomes for patients and guide decisions on tailoring treatment.”
The annual conference of the CRCA at the Ad- elaide Hilton from May 28-30 joined researchers, educators and industry with a diverse community of CRCA members.
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