CUAVA congratulates Australian Space Awards 2025 winners, Anita Ho-Baillie and Anne Bettens.
Anita Ho-Baillie, who won the Academic of the Year Award 2025, is the John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience at Sydney Nano in the University of Sydney, and leads EurokaPower, whose perovskite solar cells have been successfully demonstrated on the Waratah Seed-1 mission and are also flying on CUAVA-2.
Dr Anne Bettens won the Rising Star of the Year Award – SME for startup company Deneb Space, co-founded with Dr Xueliang Bai and Professor Iver Cairns from CUAVA and the University of Sydney School of Physics, and Dr Xiaofeng Wu, from the University of Sydney School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering.
Deneb Space designed the ‘E-mag’, innovative technology for rapidly stabilising tumbling satellites and changing satellite orientation, which has also been demonstrated successfully on the Waratah Seed-1 mission.
Tim Parsons, a founding member of the Waratah Seed Consortium, and Expert in Residence for the National Space Industry Hub, won Mentor of the Year, and Nick Manser from SmartSat CRC, won the Engineer Of the Year – Academic/Research award. SmartSat CRC are Foundation Mission Partners of the Waratah Seed-1 mission.
The Waratah Seed Consortium, based at CUAVA in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, was a finalist in Research and Development Project of the Year. CUAVA and Waratah Seed engineers Xueliang Bai and Patrick Oppel were also finalists for Engineer of the Year – Academic / Research, with Patrick Oppel also nominated for Rising Star of the year – Enterprise.
Photo L-R: Award Winners Anne Bettens and Anita Ho-Baillie with CUAVA and Waratah Seed Director, Iver Cairns.
