PSTA 2024 Programme Booklet

PRESIDENT’S FOREWoRD

Tharman Shanmugaratnam President of The Republic of Singapore

The President’s Science and Technology Awards recognises outstanding achievements in our scienƟfic community, with the potenƟal to tackle the challenges of our Ɵmes and touch many lives.

This year’s awardees once again exemplify the spirit of innovaƟon. From shaping our R&D landscape, to nurturing talent and fostering interdisciplinary collaboraƟons. From transforming the management of cardio-respiratory diseases, to resolving a mystery in organic luminescent materials that have stumped scienƟsts for decades, enabling the design of high-performance materials with important new applicaƟons. Our Young ScienƟst Award recipients themselves reflect the growing depth and diversity of Singapore’s R&D talent pipeline. Their contribuƟons span across advancing arƟficial intelligence, designing green catalysts for sustainable manufacturing, developing computaƟonal methods for ribonucleic acid research, and improving eye health. I look forward to seeing them and other young scienƟsts make even greater impacts in the years to come.

My warmest congratulaƟons to each of this year’s recipients of the President’s Science and Technology Awards!