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Dr. Stefanie Blain-Moraes named by World Ecocomic Forum as 2017 Young Scientist
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Dr. Stefanie Blain-Moraes was named by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a 2017 Young Scientists. The award recognized 55 young scientists under 40 recently at the WEF conference in Dalian, China. The awardees hailed from 38 academic institutions in 18 countries, and all were invited to attend a special Meeting of the New Champions at the conference. Stefanie’s ground breaking research focuses on developing assistive technologies to enhance the assessment of and interaction with individuals who are behaviourally unresponsive. For more information see: https://goo.gl/4hJQpM