Rebecca Schacht

Rebecca Schacht has a diverse work experience in the field of mechatronics and robotics. Starting in 2017, they worked as a Social Events Coordinator for UNSW BABS Society (BABSOC). In 2018, they were a Summer Intern at B&R Enclosures, where they contributed to the development of factory procedures for Industry 4.0 goals. As an Undergraduate Student Researcher at the iGEM Competition in 2018, they played a role in the development of a self-assembling enzyme scaffold to improve biocatalytic pathways. In 2019, they became an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology, working on autonomous multi-robot coordination for the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. In 2020, they worked as an Instructor at Young Engineers e2 and as an Honours Student at CSIRO's Data61 Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group. In their role at CSIRO, they assisted in research on multi-agent task allocation for limited communication environments. In 2021, they joined Sydney Water as a Graduate Mechatronics Engineer and later moved to QinetiQ Australia as a Robotics Engineer. In 2023, they started working at SunDrive as a Mechatronics Engineer.

Rebecca Schacht has a diverse education history. From 2016 to 2020, they attended UNSW and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and Immunology. During the same period, they also obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from UNSW. In 2019, they temporarily studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology, focusing on the same field of study. Before their university studies, Rebecca attended St Vincent's College in Potts Point from 2009 to 2015, although no specific degree or field of study information was provided.