Professor Jason Monty

Head, Mechanical Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Reducing COVID-19 transmission without costing the Earth

While opening windows reduces COVID-19 spread, it also increases buildings’ energy use – new research has tested more efficient alternatives

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Sciences & Technology

Which air cleaners work best to remove aerosols that contain viruses?

Many air cleaners claim to remove SARS-CoV-2 virus particles from our homes, offices and classrooms – so what should you be looking for?

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Sciences & Technology

Six safety tips for hotel quarantine

Even during a pandemic people need to travel the world, so researchers have devised a list of things travellers can do as individuals, to quarantine more safely

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Sciences & Technology

Engineering COVID-19 protection

A collaboration between multi-disciplinary experts has engineered a “ventilation hood” designed to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19. And it could go global

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Sciences & Technology

What pancake ice tells us about the climate

The first fresh-water wave tank of its kind in the world is being used to study how pancake ice forms and melts, and could inform how we better model our global climate