The BTM team warmly congratulates Dr Naomi Paxton who has been awarded her PhD.
Naomi’s PhD focussed on biofabrication approaches to manufacturing personalised surgical implants. She worked closely with Anatomics (industry partner) and research collaborators at the University of Wollongong to 3D print surgical implants for bone tissue replacement. Over the course of her PhD, Naomi has published 6 Q1 papers, presented at 10 conferences, given 22 keynote/invited addresses, sat on 5 society/conference organising committees, and won 13 national and international awards, including a peer-reviewed New Investigator grant to support her research and being announced as QUT’s overall Student Leader of the Year.
Naomi was the national winner of the ATSE Ezio Rizzardo Polymer Scholarship, CSIRO Alumni Scholarship in Physics and awarded the QLD Women in Technology Life Science Young Achiever Award. Alongside her research, Naomi is an enthusiastic science communicator and STEM ambassador with the STEM for Schools (QUT) and Wonder of Science (UQ) programs. She was a national finalist in the AMP Amplify Ignite science pitching competition, as well as runner-up in the SEF 3 Minute Thesis competition. Naomi will be continuing her research at QUT, having already secured an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship commencing in late 2020.
Awards, Grant & Scholarships
2020 Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship
2020 QUT SEF Higher Degree Research Student Award
2019 ATSE Ezio Rizzardo Polymer Scholarship (national winner)
2019 QUT Student Leader of the Year (overall winner)
2019 The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation New Investigator Grant (peer reviewed)
2019 AMP Amplify Ignite PhD Pitch Competition Finalist (national finalist)
2019 QUT SEF 3 Minute Thesis (faculty runner up)
2019 QLD Women in STEM Prize Runner Up
2019 QUT Athena Swan Gender Diversity Award Nominee
2018 International Society for Biofabrication Young Investigator Award Winner
2018 CSIRO Alumni Scholarship in Physics Award (national winner)
2018 QUT SEF Equipment Bid: Cellink BioX Bioprinter (co-investigator)
2018 QLD Women in Technology Life Sciences Young Achiever Award (state winner)
2017 Campus Travel & Virgin Australia National Women in STEM Travel Prize (national winner)
2017 ARC ITTC in Additive Biomanufacturing PhD Scholarship
2017 ASBTE Conference Travel Award
2017 ASBTE Conference Best Oral Presentation Runner Up