This year's Young Tassie Scientists are University of Tasmania scientists who are keen to share their work through interactive talks and hands-on activities in Tasmanian schools and communities during National Science Week.

The Young Tassie Scientist on this road trip are:

• Bharath Dinakaran (He/him), Alternate Pollinators - Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania
• Cassidy Mihalenko (She/her), Astrophysicist - Neutron star collisions
• Emily Garratt (She/her), Neuroscientist - Neuroscience 
• Katy Baker (She/her), Marine Science - IMAS, UTAS
• Kritika Sharma (She/her), Botanist - Plant stress responses
• Niam Askey-Doran (He/him), Geophysicist - Physics 
• Osian Walton (He/him), Medical scientist - Microplastic and the immune system
• Rhiannon Terry (She/her), Chemist - The Chemistry of Smells 
• Samuel Verne (He/Him), Physicist - Dark Matter and the physics of the universe 
• Thomas Verne (he/him), Plant scientist - Plant molecular biology & Microscopy 
• Yuhang Liu (She/her), Marine scientist - Antarctic Oceanography

The Young Tassie Scientists program is made possible by National Science Week funding from the Australian Government and is brought to you by the University of Tasmania.