The QAEHS HDR Student Best Publication Awards (for papers published in 2024) were awarded on Wednesday 2nd July at UQ’s Dutton Park Campus.
The HDR Student Best Publication Awards are maintained by annual funding from QAEHS to encourage and reward HDR students who are the primary authors of high-quality publications. The 1st place winner received $1,000, the 2nd place winner received $500 and the two Commendation winners received $200 each.
1st Place was awarded to Jinglong Li for his Nature Water paper, National survey of the occurrence of antimicrobial agents in Australian wastewater and their socioeconomic correlates.
2nd Place was received by Dhaya Nadarajan for her Analytica Chimica Acta paper, Application of design of experiment for quantification of 71 new psychoactive substances in influent wastewater.
Commendation (tie) awards were presented to Reena Que for her Environmental Science & Technology paper, Trends of benzotriazoles and benzothiazoles in Australian pooled urine samples from 2012 to 2023 and Zeyang Zhao for her Science of the Total Environment paper, Refining the correction factor for a better monitoring of antidepressant use by wastewater-based epidemiology: A case study of amitriptyline.
First place winner Jinglong Li noted that, “I’m deeply honoured to receive this award. It’s a great encouragement for my research journey. I sincerely thank my supervisors and colleagues at QAEHS for their constant support, which made this achievement possible.”
Student Dhaya Nadarajan commented, “I feel honoured to receive this award for my first published work as the first author. I would like to thank my supervisors for giving me the freedom to be innovative in my research and for providing all the necessary support to complete this work during my first year. I was inspired to pursue this project and delve deeply into LC-MS/MS techniques because I couldn't find the answers I needed in the existing literature. Fortunately, QAEHS has the experts, technologies, and software that allowed me to learn and find those answers.”
