Liu develops ultra-flexible, tissue-scaffold-integrated mesh bioelectronics that become seamlessly incorporated into developing neural tissue, enabling minimally invasive single-cell recording of brain activity with millisecond precision as the brain develops — a bioelectronic sensing platform explicitly aimed at eventual human/clinical translation for understanding neurodevelopmental disease.

Muller designs wireless, miniaturized CMOS integrated circuits for closed-loop neural recording and stimulation (including the WAND platform), pushing implantable bioelectronic sensing toward fully autonomous, battery-free operation.

Prawer is the founding figure of Melbourne diamond science, spanning colour-centre quantum technology, diamond surface chemistry and — unusually — clinical translation. His group developed the nitrogen-doped ultrananocrystalline diamond electrode arrays used in the Australian diamond bionic eye, a hermetically sealed, chronically implantable retinal stimulator that has been through human implantation; that is a rare example of an exotic-materials sensing/stimulation technology carried into human trials. In parallel the group works on diamond surface termination and functionalisation for near-surface NV sensing, nanodiamond bioconjugation, and diamond as a radiation-hard detector material. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — his surface- and materials-engineering work is precisely what sets the standoff distance, and hence the achievable pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity, of near-surface NV ensembles used for DEER and nanoscale NMR. Preferred attribute present: demonstrated human trials with a complex implanted technology.