HRI Launch Event

This breakfast launch will showcase bioinspired solutions to a range of problems, describe the scope and activities of the BioInspiration Research Initiative and provide an opportunity to for researchers and industry practitioners from diverse fields to meet and exchange ideas. Speakers will include:

Professor Mark Elgar (Chair of the BioInspiration Research Initiative): Introduction to the Hallmark Research Initiative in BioInspiration

Enterprise Professor Brendon McNiven: BioInspired Design in Architecture – an industry perspective

Professor Ann Roberts: BioInspiration in Nano-optics and Materials

Dr Wallace Wong (Theme Leader Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science): BioInspired sensing and solar energy harvesting technologies