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The Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources (ISER) is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 ISER Ingenuity Awards, celebrating another year of research excellence for students working in future energy and resources.

Ingenuity is an annual exhibition that showcases the projects of final year students in the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide. Featuring a range of interactive STEM focused activities, Ingenuity provides an insight into career opportunities available across architecture and the built environment, science, engineering, technology and mathematics for school students, teachers, industry members and the general public.

Over 200 student projects were showcased at Ingenuity 2025, which was held on Wednesday October 29, 2025 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. All projects were categorised under one of six cross-disciplinary themes that demonstrate the relationship between the students’ disciplines of study and their relevance and impact in real world settings. Themed areas included: future energy and resources; healthy society; our built and natural environments; securing our future; space and transforming technologies.

The Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources (ISER) were once again honoured to sponsor the ISER Ingenuity prizes in the future energy and resources theme, in the categories of: hydrogen and alternative fuels; green metals; critical minerals; net zero electricity: and carbon capture, utilisation and storage.

ISER wishes to congratulate all the recipients of the 2025 ISER Ingenuity Prizes as follows:

• Lucy Musolino, Sarah Runnegar-Mullins and Rachel Yin, who won the ISER Prize for Hydrogen and Alternative Fuels, for their project ‘Hydrogen Aircraft Life Cycle Impact’.
• Alex Cursaru , Minh Dai Luong, Abid Ali Syed and Catelyn Turner, who won the ISER Prize for Green Metals, for the project ‘ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Green Steel’.
• Robert Baranik, Samuel Homburg, Luke James, Noys Le Chenadec, Angus Russell and Harry Russell, who won the ISER Prize for Net Zero Electricity, for their project ‘Wave Energy: Power and Protection.
• Nguyen Dac Khoa Huynh and Ahad Kajani, who won the ISER Prize for Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage, for their project ‘Predicting CO2-Brine IFT Using ML’.