Christine Thong

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Associate Professor Christine Thong is the Applied Innovation Theme Leader in the Centre’s Outreach and Media Engagement Folio.

Christine will establish an Innovation Lab using design-inspired approaches to explore new opportunities for commercial application and societal impact of the Centre’s research.

Christine is an accomplished design researcher, facilitator and educator, specialising in design innovation methods to transfer science and technology into products for commercial and societal benefit. She is currently an Innovation Fellow at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), and was previously a visiting scientist/researcher at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

Working closely with colleagues at IdeaSquare CERN (Innovation platform at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research), Christine developed the tertiary education program CBI A3.

Home institution: Design Factory Melbourne, Swinburne University

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