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Professor Alessandro Toffoli
Ocean Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne
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Sciences & Technology
The elite athlete training for an extreme Arctic race in a fridge
An ultra-marathon runner is training in a research refrigerator with a team of engineers ahead of a 230-kilometre Arctic race
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Environment
Exploring the birthplace of monster waves
An expedition to the Antarctic explores where rogue waves begin, and what these monsters tell us about the way the ocean behaves and interacts with global climate change