Media Expert Guide

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Name	Title	Expertise	Contact
Genevieve Knight	Doctor	Aged care workforce; NDIS workforce; learning and skills; welfare to work programs; labour force participation; workforce retention and recruitment; cost-benefit of programs; vocational education; workforce development; teaching workforce	0490 410 045
Kelsi Dodds	Doctor	Endometriosis; pain sensation; chronic pain; pelvic pain; period pain; uterus physiology; female reproductive tract; neuroscience; glial cells	Media office
Toby Prike	Doctor	misinformation; non-evidence-based beliefs; conspiracy theories; paranormal beliefs; science denial	Media office
Theresa Cole	Doctor	Antarctic ecology, penguin and seabird biology, genomics and evolution, ancient DNA, biodiversity	Media office
Georgina Maja Falster	Doctor	Climate change; weather change; drought; extreme rainfall; global warming; palaeoclimate; Australian climate; ENSO; tropical Pacific climate; water cycle	0438 894 861
Tom Benjamin	Doctor	Multimedia in education; musicology; music learning; community music; educational innovation; education technology; medical consumer issues; health investigation; health economics; preventative health	0432 025 202
Thomas Moran	Doctor	Cinema; literature; philosophy; digital media; cultural studies; Chinese culture; contemporary art; art history; the arts; theatre; Australian literature; Australian film; modernism; experimental art	0494 166 961
Prachi Srivastava	Associate Professor	International education; global education; education policy; education privatisation; international development; global affairs; children and conflict; COVID and education recovery; international aid; Canada, India, G20	Media office
Peter Draper	Professor, and Executive Director, Institute for International Trade	Economic growth, development, and trade; international agreements on trade; international political economy; international trade policy; trade and sustainability	0481 902 474
Christopher Bronk	Professor	Cybersecurity; information policy; international security; US foreign policy; propaganda; Internet issues; technology development	0476 290 946
Priya Chacko	Associate Professor	Indian politics, political economy and foreign policy; Indian diaspora; Australian foreign policy; transnational repression; authoritarian populism	Media office
Georgia Phillips	Doctor	Creative writing; literary fiction; the novel; contemporary fiction; poetry and poetics; literary historical novel; the legacy of literary modernism on contemporary writing; literary aesthetics and women's writing	Media office
Alexander Beare	Doctor	Streaming media; Streaming Audiences; Gender and masculinity; Television; Prestige TV; Storytelling; Apple TV+; HBO; Netflix	Media office
Priestley Habru	PhD Student	Pacific Islands media and public diplomacy	Media office
Patrick Flanery	Professor and Chair in Creative Writing	Creative Writing; Literary fiction; Creative nonfiction	Media office
Adam Graycar	Professor	Integrity and corruption in government; Best practice in public administration	0403 041 131
Andrew van der Vlies	Professor	Humanities and Higher Education; South Africa (politics, culture, literature); contemporary British literature and culture; contemporary American literature; Cultural Studies; Sexuality and contemporary culture	Media office
Michaela Okninski	Doctor	Voluntary assisted dying; End Of Life Law; Health Law; Variations in Sex Characteristics (Restricted Medical Treatment) Law; Tobacco Control Legislation	Media office
Ralf Zurbrugg	Professor	Finance; Business Analytics; Climate Finance	Media office
Samantha Newell	Doctor	Higher Education Teaching and Learning; GenerativeAI; Online Educational Technologies; Students-as-Partners; Pedagogy	Media office
Ella Moeck	Doctor	Emotions; emotion regulation; memory; uncertainty	Media office
Joanne Wallis	Professor	Security in the Pacific Islands region and Australia's Pacific Islands policy	Media office
Timothy Barker	Doctor	Systematic review conduct, guideline development, research integrity methods, predatory publishing, AI models in evidence synthesis	Media office
Jess Marsh	Doctor	Conservation biologist and taxonomist with a focus on invertebrates, primarily spiders: Conservation biology; taxonomy; arachnology; entomology; biodiversity; ecology; fire; caves, island biodiversity; threatened species	0448 678 848
Tak Kee	Associate Professor	Photo-catalysis, lasers, solar cells	Media office
Simon Tuke	Doctor	Statistics; natural language processing; data science	Media office
Andrew Shepherd	Doctor	Urology; robotic surgery; prostate cancer; bladder cancer; renal cancer; testis cancer	Media office
Caitlin Adams	Doctor	Social media; pop culture; fan cultures; YouTube; online storytelling; internet studies	Media office
Jack Hetherington	Mr	Circular economy; circular business models; food loss and waste; agricultural value chains; agricultural development	Media office
Elizabeth Summerell	Doctor	Anger; aggression; alcohol; masculinity	Media office
Amelie Jay Burgess	Doctor	Marketing; social media influencers; brand activism; diversity marketing; inclusive marketing; diversity and inclusion; marketing for social change; consumer vulnerability; ethical marketing; consumer wellbeing; influencer marketing; advertising	0408 680 838
Skye Krichauff	Doctor	South Australian colonial history; Aboriginal/settler relations; frontier violence; positive cross-cultural relations; unique foundations of South Australia; legacies of historical injustices; settler colonialism	Media office
Jonathan David Bartholomaeus	Doctor	The psychology of justice; power; forgiveness; religion; morality	Media office
Yanyan Hong	PhD Candidate	Bollywood; Indian cinema; global media and China; intercultural communication	Media office
Oscar Kenneth Russell	Doctor	Social determinants of health and musculoskeletal health; rheumatoid arthritis; rheumatology	Media office
Czeslaw Tubilewicz	Doctor	Chinese foreign policy; Taiwan's foreign relations; China-Taiwan relations; subnational diplomacy; paradiplomacy; China-US subnational relations; Taiwan-US subnational relations; Taiwan-Europe relations	Media office
Brian Castro	Adjunct Professor	Literature; creative writing; publishing	Media office
Michela Mitchell	Senior Medical Scientist/Adjunct Senior Lecturer	Toxinology; enom evolution; sea anemone taxonomy; museum collections; collection management; venom research; venom bioapplications; clinical toxinology; cnidarian venom; invertebrate biology	Media office
Emily Buddle	Doctor	Social issues in agriculture and farming; agricultural extension; public attitudes to agriculture; public attitudes to science; food values; responsible research and innovation	Media office
Carl Spandler	Professor	Geology; Earth Sciences; Critical Minerals; Mineral Resources; Volcanology	Media office
Marta Khomyn	Doctor	Financial markets, exchange traded funds (ETFs), Behavioural Finance, Market Structure, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, High-Frequency Trading (FT), Financial Markets Regulation	0481 314 349
Kannan Govindan	Chair Professor and Director	Supply chain resilience; green supply chain management; sustainable supply chain management; reverse logistics; digital supply chain; circular economy; circular supply chain; industry 4.0; sustainable and smart manufacturing; SDGs; ESG; Net Zero	0478 269 642
Grace Waye-Harris	Research Fellow	Fashion diplomacy; historical dress; Henry VIII; the Tudors; the Renaissance; courtly politics, spectacle and performance, late medieval Europe, sixteenth-century ceremonial armour	Media office
Isaiah Luc	Mr	Health technology assessment; health economics; cost-effectiveness of health; pharmaceutical benefits scheme; pharmaceutical benefits advisory committee; epidemiology; public health	0411 752 190
Jared Dmello	Senior Lecturer of Criminology	Criminology; Terrorism; Public Policy; LGBTQ+; hate crimes; inequality; gangs; gun violence; international	0430 009 314
Kate Sansome	Research Fellow	Transparency; marketing; branding; circular economy; food waste; fashion and textiles; digital marketing; marketing for social change; corporate social responsibility; consumer wellbeing; ethical marketing	0403 559 894
Abi Thirumanickam	Doctor	Game-based intervention, augmentative and alternative communication, disability and accessibility, technology child and adolescent health and well-being, accessible interventions	Media office
Ori Henderson-Sapir	Doctor	Lasers	Media office
Ania Kotarba	Doctor	Archaeology (Egypt, Middle East, Classical/Mediterranean, Indigenous, Pacific, South Asia, Africa), Cultural anthropology, Museums, Cultural Heritage, Sustainability and Climate Change, Indigenous Heritage	Media office
Katherine Roff	PhD Student	Solutions journalism; constructive journalism; inclusive pedagogy in journalism education; media education	Media office
Lidwien Verdegaal	Doctor	Thermoregulation, heat stress, exertional heat illness, heat stroke, sport horse medicine, equine medicine, horse transportation, equine welfare, Equine Glanders disease	Media office
Christopher Sumby	Professor	Chemistry; Materials Chemistry; Porous Materials; Nanomaterials; Gas Storage and Separation; Clean Energy Technology; Carbon Capture and Utilization; Hydrogen Storage	Media office
Mauida Al Khallawi	Doctor	Tissue Culture Research and Development, Microbiology-including Mycoplasma Research, Antimicrobial Resistance and MIC Testing, Life Science, Biodiversity.	Media office
Charlotte Lassaline	PhD Student	Terrestrial invertebrate trade, exotic invertebrate pet trade	0478 913 000
Jessica Ford	Doctor	Feminism; popular culture; television; musicals; social media; film; digital culture; popular music	0409 566 720
Manjula Dissanayake	Doctor	Technology Innovation; Commercialisation; EdTech; Business Sustainability	Media office
Tiffany De Sousa Machado	Doctor	Leadership; Adaptive Leadership; Wellbeing; Women's Perinatal Health; Social Entrepreneurship	0410 943 873
Carmel Pascale	Doctor	History of twentieth century Australia; South Australian history; commemorative events and national holidays; nationalism, history of imperialism in Australia; ideas of Britishness; Australia's relationship with Britain and the empire; Federation.	Media office
Abbas Zeinijahromi	Associate Professor	Petroleum engineering; Carbon capture and storage; Underground hydrogen storage	Media office
Abel Santos	Associate Professor	Structural engineering of nanoporous materials by electrochemical oxidation (anodisation); photocatalysis and energy; nanophotonics and plasmonics; optical sensing and biosensing	0410 047 490
Benjamin McCann	Associate Professor	France; French life, culture and language; Cinema + film culture	Media office
Chloe Frick	PhD Candidate	Translocations; Australian Wildlife; Mammal trapping; Ecology; Animal monitoring and telemetry.	0422 247 377
Peter Koulizos	Mr	Residential property; property investment; property development; housing	0412 781 236
Adam Loch	Associate Professor	Water economics; environmental economics; agriculture; irrigation; transaction costs; risk and uncertainty; water governance; Murray-Darling Basin issues	0412 178 162
Emma Miller	Associate Professor	Public Health management of COVID-19; alcohol use and cancer; hepatitis C and sexually transmissible infections	Media office
Adam Montagu	Associate Professor	Simulation; nursing; health professions education; health care simulation	Media office
Alan Collins	Professor	Earth sciences; geology; plate tectonics; earthquakes; earth systems science; mountain building; chemistry of the earth; evolution of life; deep time; plate tectonic controls in evolution; Gondwana; flinders Ranges; Australian geology	0408 916 965
Alec Zuo	Associate Professor	Water market; water trading; agricultural economics & policy; environment and resource economics Agricultural product exports to China	Media office
Alexandra Whittaker	Doctor	Animal law; animal welfare; research animals; animal behaviour and cognition	Media office
Ali Pourmousavi Kani	Senior Lecturer	Renewable energy; electricity market; power system transmission and distribution; electric vehicles; battery storage; electrification	Media office
Amanda Josephine Poprzeczny	Doctor	High risk obstetrics, women's health, obstetrics, antenatal care	Media office
Amy Clair	Doctor	Housing; health; social determinants; wellbeing; mental health; social policy	Media office
Amy Dwyer	Doctor	Breast cancer; hormone signalling; androgens; androgen receptor	0450 332 371
Andrew Gardner	Doctor	Mental health nursing; mental health of young people; professional boundaries in health care; boundary violations by health care professionals	0437 910 750
Andrew Lowe	Professor	Biodiversity; environment; climate change; invasive species; ecosystem services; evolution; deforestation; illegal logging; conservation; restoration; benefits from nature; natural capital; genetic diversity	0434 607 705
Andrew Somogyi	Professor	Health; precision medicine; pharmacogenomics; pain; opioids; medicines; drug regulation	0404 498 686
Anne-Lise Chaber	Doctor	Wildlife health; emerging infectious disease; infectious disease prevention; detection; and management at the animal-human interface; public health; biodiversity; prevention and response to the emergence of zoonotic diseases and pandemic	Media office
Anthony Thomas AC FAA	Elder Professor	Nuclear physics; high energy particle physics; quark structure of matter; symmetries; neutron stars; pulsars; Standard Model; dark matter	Media office
Bastien Llamas	Associate Professor	Ancient DNA; paleogenomics; archaeogenomics; human evolution; Indigenous genomics; evolutionary medicine; animal extinction	0411 539 426
Beth Nosworthy	Associate Professor	Corporate law; directors' duties; business structures; corporate governance; corporate social responsibility; Environmental Social and Governance (ESG)	Media office
Brian Ng	Associate Professor	Radars	Media office
Bronwyn Gillanders	Professor	Marine biology/ecology; fisheries science; Environment	0417 036 235
Cambrey Payne	Postgraduate Researcher	Autism; autistic advocacy; autism in education; critical autism studies; autism and culture; autism research; autism and gender; autism and queer identities; disability studies; transgender and gender diversity; queer politics; identity politics	0422 731 957
Cameron Shearer	Doctor	Hydrogen; pollutant remediation; PFAS; renewable energy; nanotechnology	Media office
Carolyn Semmler	Associate Professor	Human interaction with AI; social media and informational influence; cognitive performance and distress; immune challenge and cognition; augmenting human thinking; meat consumption and attitudes towards animals; ethical decision making	Media office
Charlie Hargroves	Doctor	Sustainable development; sustainable transport; renewable energy; energy storage; decentralised energy; applied blockchain; industrial hemp; medicinal Cannabis	Media office
Christina Bursill	Associate Professor	Heart disease; heart attack; atherosclerosis; healthy hearts	Media office
Christopher Graves	Associate Professor	Family business; family enterprise; exit and succession planning; business resilience and recovery	Media office
Christopher Preston	Professor	Weed control; herbicides; herbicide resistance; genetically-modified crops	Media office
Clemence Due	Associate Professor	Refugee and migrant health and wellbeing; grief and loss; bereavement care following stillbirth and perinatal loss; arts and health including performer and audience wellbeing	Media office
Colin Trengove	Doctor	Cattle; sheep and goat health and nutrition; Livestock macro and trace element nutrition / deficiency; farm animal grazing management; soil; plants; water; animal health analysis	0418 808 045
Cornelia Koch	Senior Lecturer	Referendum; First Nations Voice; constitutional change	Media office
Daniel Marc Rossetto	Mr	Carbon markets; energy policy; climate policy; international business; finance; circular economy; ESG; agribusiness; international development; UNFCCC climate negotiations	Media office
Daniel Thomas	Associate Professor	Blood cancer; cancer survivorship; haematology; oncology; immunotherapy; cancer and diet; Myelofibrosis; Acute Myeloid Leukaemia	0458 572 475
Darren Taljaard	Mr	Graphic design; typography; dyslexia; visual communication design; information design	0414 331 449
David Adamson	Doctor	Agricultural economics; biosecurity; water; climate change; international trade	0434 963 038
David Huang	Associate Professor	Theoretical chemistry; computational chemistry; organic semiconductors; organic photovoltaics; nanofluidics	Media office
David Hunter	Doctor	Ethics; bioethics; medical ethics; health care distribution; political philosophy; public health ethics; research ethics; ethics of new technologies; ethics of regulation	0447 040 418
David Kroll	Doctor	Architecture; sustainable design; architectural heritage; housing design	0450 493 365
David Rafferty	Doctor	Ancient history; pre-modern political history; Romans; Ancient Greeks; history of democracy	0430 053 815
Derek Abbott	Professor	Renewables; photonics; forensic genealogy; forensics; space science; biomedical engineering; probability and chance; physics; puzzles; understanding the scientific method; media reporting of science; topical science debates	Media office
Diego Garcia-Bellido	Associate Professor	Fossils; early animals; evolution; invertebrates; arthropods; trilobites; palaeontology; Ediacaran; Cambrian; Ordovician	0404 426 249
Douglas Bardsley	Associate Professor	Climate change adaptation; natural resource and hazard management including bushfires; environmental risk and education; agricultural development; risk and food security; community attitudes towards biodiversity conservation and environmental risk	Media office
Duygu Yengin	Associate Professor	Gender gap, gender equity, women in the economy and business, gender responsive budgeting, women in leadership, compulsory acquisition of land, strata sales, game theory, auctions.	Media office
Elaine Fox	Professor	Resilience; adolescent mental health; mental agility/flexibility; emotions	Media office
Ember Catherine Corpuz	Doctor	Women in leadership; social psychology of leadership; social psychology of wellbeing in the workplace; social identity; gender psychology; social psychology of motivation; industrial and organisational psychology; justice; mental health; culture	Media office
Emily Dollman	Doctor	Music education; instrumental pedagogy; music; health and wellbeing; classical music community engagement; teaching artistry; El Sistema; UK Music Hubs; symphony orchestras; operas and community engagement; regional music	0458 851 670
Emma Sherratt	Associate Professor	Evolutionary biology; amphibians; caecilians; reptiles; rabbits and hares; biodiversity; animal evolution	0423 419 966
Eric Fusil	Professor	Submarines (nuclear or diesel-electric powered); nuclear naval reactor; shipbuilding; naval architecture; maritime engineering; defence	0402 650 946
Esma Dogramaci	Doctor	dentistry; braces; orthodontics; dental trauma; smile improvement; oral health-related quality of life; breastfeeding; non-nutritive sucking; psychosocial outcomes; dental behaviours; dental knowledge; patient-related outcomes; scientometrics	Media office
Evan Smith	Doctor	History of political extremism in Australia and United Kingdom; social movements in Australia and United Kingdom; history of border control and immigration; free speech & activism at universities; the history of national security in Australia & United Kingdom; Australian/British politics	Media office
Firmin Doko Tchatoka	Professor	Causal inference and machine learning; identification of macroeconomic structural shocks; the housing market; model selection; forecasting; Big Data; social networks	0466 400 714
Gabrielle Golding	Doctor	Employment law; labour law; employment contract law; contract law	0400 391 272
Gary Wittert	Professor and Director	Obesity and related chronic disease; men's health including testosterone; erectile dysfunction; lower urinary tract symptoms	0409 411 789
George Mihaylov	Doctor	Household finance; self-managed superannuation funds/SMSFs	Media office
George Torbay	Mr	Musical theatre; music education; actor training	0421 245 665
Giuseppe Tettamanzi	Doctor	Applied superconductivity; nanoelectronics; semiconductor physics; many-body physics; microelectronics and device engineering; thin films and nanotechnology; thin film deposition; device physics; and semiconductor slectronics	Media office
Guy Ludbrook	Professor	Health services improvement, health economics, clinical trials, development of medicines and medical devices, anaesthesia, perioperative medicine	0413 817 901
Guy Maddern	Professor	Surgery; new medical and surgical technologies; rural surgery; surgical training	Media office
Hannah Rose Wardill	Associate Professor	Symptoms and side effects of cancer treatment; supportive cancer care; cancer survivorship / quality of life; gut microbiota / gut microbiome / gut bacteria; gut health; gut-brain communication; faecal microbiota transplantation	0476 870 643
Harriet Gray	PhD Candidate	Marketing; social media influencers; social purpose; business for good; consumer empowerment; social enterprise; branding for social change; marketing for social change	0407 090 759
Hubertus Jersmann	Professor	Lung diseases: Silicosis; Asthma; COPD/endobronchial valves; vaping; bushfire smoke; climate change and health	0408 440 604
Hussain Rammal	Professor	International Business; Belt and Road Initiative; International Services; Knowledge Management; International Market Opportunities and Strategies; International Business & Politics; Pakistan; South Asia; Religiosity and Business; Islamic banking and finance	0402 148 142
Iain Searle	Associate Professor	mRNA; RNA; epigenetics; legumes	Media office
Ian Musgrave	Doctor	Pharmacology; toxicology; herbal medicines	0417 059 532
Ian Olver	Professor	Supportive care in cancer including psycho-oncology; bioethics embracing end of life issues; informed consent	0409 220 026
Ivan Nagelkerken	Professor	Fish biology; climate change effects of marine ecosystems; mangroves; seagrasses; estuaries; coral reefs; ocean acidification	0477 320 551
Jacinta Holloway-Brown	Doctor	Statistics; machine learning; AI; satellite image analysis; data science; environmental monitoring; deforestation; land clearing; global mapping; environment; spatial statistics	Media office
Jack Evans	Doctor	Materials science; gas properties; clean energy; hydrogen storage; carbon dioxide separation; nanomaterials; future chemistry	0409 653 777
Jacqueline Clarke	Doctor	Latin; emotions in Greco-Roman antiquity; Greco-Roman mythology; Roman poetry	Media office
Jamie Wood	Doctor	Environmental DNA; ancient DNA; palaeoecology; extinction	Media office
Jennie Shaw	Professor	Academic learning and teaching; teaching excellence; academic integrity; ATAR alternatives; academic support; tertiary pathways music: music research; music performance and creative practice; national /community arts practice	Media office
Jenny Couper	Professor	Child psychiatry ; evidence-based medicine, psychopharmacology; research ethics; conflict of interest	0418 897 530
Jenny Mortimer	Professor	Plant synthetic biology; biofuels; biomaterials; plants for space; closed environment agriculture	0411 307 686
Jessica Bohorquez	Doctor	Water engineering; water infrastructure projects; water resources; women in STEM; migrant professionals; migrant Engineers; water literacy	Media office
Jessica Stanhope	Doctor	pain; musculoskeletal disorders; green space; musicians' health	Media office
Jim Hancock	Associate Professor	South Australian economy; Australian economy; Commonwealth-State financial issues; GST distribution	Media office
Jodie Avery	Doctor	Endometriosis; polycystic ovary syndrome; women's health; fertility	0410 519 941
Jodie Yuwono	Doctor	Metal and alloys; green chemistry and fuels; electrochemical energy conversion and storage; corrosion; battery; catalysis; intelligent materials design and engineering; quantum mechanics	Media office
John Budarick	Doctor	Media and democracy; media and race; media and whiteness	Media office
John Williams	Professor	Public law; constitutional law; law reform; legal history; federalism; High Court	Media office
Jonathan Baker	Doctor	Business and corporate strategy; business and environmental sustainability/ESG; non-profit/not-for-profit sector; social business; social enterprise; business of performing arts	0493 417 612
Jose Bellido Caceres	Doctor	Astrophysics; cosmic rays; gamma rays; astroparticle detectors; solar storms	0413 897 850
Joseph Simons	Lecturer	Theatre; music theatre; theatre directing; dance; choreography	0432 498 020
Jozef Gecz	Professor	Genomics of neurodevelopmental disability; intellectual disabilities; epilepsies; autisms and cerebral palsies Precision genomic medicine. Rare disease diagnosis.	Media office
Keith James Ransom	Doctor	Social reasoning; online social influence; persuasion; consensus; misinformation; wisdom of the crowds; social media bots; detecting online influence campaigns; explainable reasoning	0439 993 301
Kerry Wilkinson	Professor	wine; wine chemistry; wine sensory; smoke taint (the impact of bushfires on grapes and wine); flavour chemistry; edible insects; entomophaghy	Media office
Kim Barbour	Doctor	Online identity performance; online persona; social media use; everyday social media; identity performance; gender and persona	Media office
Kimberly Charlton	Ms	Wheelchair training; adult rehabilitation; aged care	Media office
Laura Eadie	Doctor	Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; leukaemia; drug resistance; laboratory modelling of leukaemia	Media office
Leonid Turczynowicz (Len)	Senior Research Fellow	Exposure science; human health risk assessment; public health toxicology; occupational and environmental health	Media office
Lewis Mitchell	Professor	Data science; social networks; social media; Twitter; mathematical modelling; network science	Media office
Liliana Ciobanu	Doctor	Cognitive genomics; genetics in psychiatry; neurobiology of cognitive functioning	Media office
Lucie Walters	Professor	Rural medicine; medical workforce; rural medical training pathways; clinical courage	0409 692 359
Lucy Potter	Associate Professor	William Shakespeare; Christopher Marlowe; grammar	Media office
Lukas Gerstweiler	Doctor	Biomanufacturing; vaccine production; precision fermentation	0411 365 685
Lyndsey Collins-Praino	Associate Professor	Parkinson's disease; Alzheimer's disease; dementia; cognition; traumatic brain injury; ageing; biomarkers; neuroanatomy	0423 248 604
Maggie Tonkin	Doctor	Dance, cultural policy, women's writing	0422 220 025
Malcolm Robert Pattinson	Doctor	Cyber security; governance; risks and threats (GRT); human aspects of cyber security	0407 602 782
Manouchehr Haghighi	Associate Professor	Petroleum; natural gas; geo-zero; fracking	0435 460 175
Margaret O'Hea	Doctor	Near Eastern archaeology; ancient glass technology	Media office
Mario Mongiardini	Doctor	Road safety; computer simulations of crash tests; crash tests	Media office
Mark Bunch	Doctor	Geology of sedimentary basins; geological modelling; wireline logging and formation evaluation; reflection seismic survey data acquisition; processing and interpretation	Media office
Mark Giancaspro	Doctor	Contract law; consumer law; blockchain and smart contracts; sports law	Media office
Mark Hutchinson	Professor	neuroscience; immunology; pharmacology; drug development; neuroimmunology; glia; animal welfare; stress; depression; affective state; medical technology; biosecurity; pain; addiction; biomarkers; startups; biophotonics; agtech; human performance	Media office
Martin White	Professor	Particle physics; astrophysics; data science; dark matter; Large Hadron Collider; CERN	Media office
Matthew Tucker	Associate Professor	Barley; crop yield; seeds; genetically modified organisms; gene technology; plant biotechnology	0403 314 740
Megan Brownbill	Mrs	Entrepreneurship; marketing; anagement	0420 390 873
Megan Moskos	Associate Professor	Indigenous housing; cashless debit card; National Disability Insurance Scheme; Indigenous research	Media office
Melissa Humphries	Doctor	Statistics; data science; data visualisation; mathematical psychology; modelling; holistic modelling; decision making	Media office
Michael Goodsite	Professor	Energy; sustainability; mining; hydrogen; supply chains; contaminants; energy systems; future energy systems; infrastructure	0466 923 654
Michael Horowitz	Professor	Diabetes; endocrinology; gastric emptying; GLP-1; postprandial blood pressure; hypoglycaemia	Media office
Michelle Phillipov	Associate Professor	New food trends; food and consumer politics; buying local; food media (including social media)	Media office
Mobo Gao	Professor	Contemporary Chinese politics; Chinese culture and society; Australia-China relations; Chinese language	0404 178 417
Natasha Speight	Doctor	Koala health and disease	Media office
Nelson Tansu	Professor	Quantum engineering; quantum technologies; semiconductor technologies and microchips; power electronics; semiconductor lasers; photonics; biomedical integrated circuits; applied machine learning and AI; sustainability technologies; nanofabrications	0412 688 313
Nicholas Smith	Doctor	Gene therapy; paediatric neurodegenerative disease; childhood dementia; neurometabolic disease; paediatric neurology	Media office
Nicole McPherson	Doctor	Male fertility; infertility; reproductive health and early embryo development	0409 678 095
Nigel Antony Spooner	Professor	Radiation; nuclear science; radiation sensing for mining and mineral processing; materials sensing using novel fluorescence techniques for mining; chemicals; geochronology; optical dating; thermoluminescence dating; environmental evolution	0448 367 101
Nina Wootton	Doctor	Marine conservation; plastic pollution; microplastic; marine protected areas; science education; marine mammals; marine biology; seafood	0488 748 250
Olaide Akinwunmi Akintayo	Mr	Food science; plant-based milk alternatives	0478 354 220
Oliver Frank	Clinical Associate Professor	General practice; primary health care; clinical informatics in general practice; preventive care in general practice; quality care in general practice	0407 181 683
Padric McGee	Doctor	Astronomy; astrophysics; space	0406 125 984
Patrick O'Connor	Professor	Biodiversity conservation; ecosystem service measurement; valuation and markets; environmental stewardship; restoration ecology; carbon sequestration	Media office
Paul Gregory John Moss	Learning Design and Capability Manager	Learning design; student engagement in learning; cognitive science in learning	Media office
Peter Mickan	Visiting Research Fellow	Linguistics; education; literacy; language policy; NAPLAN; National Curriculum; Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority/ACARA; teacher education; academic literacies; teaching and learning; Barossa German; languages	Media office
Peter Veitch	Professor	Lasers; photonics; optics; remote sensing using lasers; adaptive optics; detection of gravitational waves; LIGO project; physics	Media office
Peter Zilm	Associate Professor	Oral microbiology; oral diseases (tooth decay & periodontal disease); oral microbiome	Media office
Paula Moynihan	Professor	Nutrition and healthier eating; sugars; diet and oral health (tooth decay; tooth loss dentures and diet); dietary intake of older people; oral health	Media office
Rachel Ankeny	Professor	Ethics of controversial biotechnologies; ethical/social issues and genetic modification; stem cell research; history of biology; food ethics; consumer/community views on food; agricultural ethics; animal welfare; migrant hostels; responsible research	Media office
Rachel Burton	Professor	Industrial hemp; medicinal cannabis; agave; Plantago (psyllium); chia; gluten-free food; dietary fibre; plant cell wall polysaccharides; GMOs and gene editing; biofuels	0419 769 713
Rachelle Kernen	Doctor	Green Energy and DEI; geological storage of hydrogen and carbon dioxide (Global, USA, Australia); Mineral exploration (Global, USA, Australia); Geoethics related to diversity; equity; inclusion; the environment	0432 776 206
Rajeev Kamineni	Doctor	Movie business; movie entrepreneurship; resilience of movie producers	0431 202 045
Ralph-Christopher Bayer	Professor	General economics; behavioural economics; competition and pricing; economics of climate change; taxation; tax enforcement; political economy; regulation; market design; inequality and redistribution	0408 266 155
Richard Logan	Professor	Dentistry; oral cancer; oral pathology	Media office
Robert Penn Boucaut	Mr	Prestige film; the Academy Awards (the Oscars); film stardom; Hollywood celebrity	Media office
Robin Christina Shaw	Course Coordinator	Wine Tourism; cellar door management; wine industry trends; consumer and travel trends	0419 033 868
Roger Byard	Professor	Forensic pathology; sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); childhood accidents and deaths; trauma; suicide; vehicle accidents; serial killing; murder-suicide; infanticide; child abuse; drowning; asphyxia; disaster victim identification	Media office
Ruidong Chang	Associate Professor	Waste management; building sector; construction industry; construction and demolition waste management; building energy consumption; climate change impacts on built environment; renewable energy in buildings	Media office
Samantha Schulz	Doctor	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education; racial literacy; culturally responsive schooling; gender equity education	0425 033 347
Scott Clark	Associate Professor	Adult and youth psychiatry; psychosis/schizophrenia; major depression; bipolar disorder, clinical trials in mental health; biomarkers and mental health outcome prediction; physical health and medication side effects in mental illness	Media office
Scott Hawken	Associate Professor	Landscape architecture; urban design; cultural landscapes; landscape archaeology; smart cities; urban biodiversity; green and blue infrastructure	Media office
Sherif Haggag	Doctor	Cybersecurity; information technology; human factors; social engineering; computer science; information systems	0426 233 449
Simon Barry	Professor	Immunology (molecular and cellular; incuding mechanisms of disease and therapeutic target discovery); autoimmunity (Type 1 diabetes); cancer immunotherapy (CAR-T); COVID (COVID SA); functional genomics and personalised medicine	Media office
Sophie Dahlenburg	Lecturer	Body image; eating disorders; LGBT+; perfectionism; borderline personality disorder	Media office
Stephen Pyecroft	Senior Lecturer	Animal pathology; veterinary disease diagnostics; fish disease; fish kills; emergency animal diseases and response management; commercial insect production; Black Soldier flies; Tasmanian devils; Devil Facial tumour disease (research and management)	0414 478 630
Steve Cook	Senior Lecturer	Virtual reality/VR; mixed reality; augmented reality; metaverse; shared virtual environments; applied game-based technology; co-located interactive content	Media office
Susan Hazel	Associate Professor	Companion animal welfare; dog attacks; companion animal behaviour	Media office
Sylvia Villios	Associate Professor	Tax; wills and estates; family inheritance, powers of attorney and advance care directives	Media office
Tania Crotti	Associate Professor	Musculo skeletal research; human biology education; higher degree by research thesis structure; wellbeing in higher education	Media office
Tarik Sammour	Associate Professor	Colorectal surgery; bowel cancer	Media office
Tatiana Soares da Costa	Doctor	Agriculture; antibiotics; food security; herbicides; farming; superbugs; weeds	Media office
Taylor Willmott	Doctor	Social marketing; behaviour change; social change; design thinking; participatory design; community involvement and engagement; obesity and chronic disease prevention; violence prevention; young adults; health and wellbeing; sustainability; SDGs	Media office
Tina Bianco-Miotto	Doctor	Developmental origins of health and disease; research investigating what happens early in life (pregnancy and pre-pregnancy) that may impact offspring health later in life (ie you are what your mum or grandmother ate)	0408 833 624
Toby Hughes	Professor	Oral health; genetics; twins; twin studies; early origins of health; biostatistics; physical anthropology; teeth; 3D modelling; child health; dental development	Media office
Tom Michael Lampe Wigley	Adjunct Professor	Climate change; energy technology	0438 662 399
Tony Hooker	Associate Professor and Director	radiation; nuclear; radioactive waste; health effects of radiation; uranium mining	0439 961 018
Tracey Dodd	Doctor	Environmental Social Governance (ESG)	Media office
Tracy Merlin	Professor	Health technology assessment; evaluation and public funding of medical technologies; public health; diagnostic tests; personalised medicine; MBS; PBS; evidence-based medicine; evidence-based policy; systematic reviews and meta-analysis	Media office
Valerie Caines	Doctor	Human resource management; employment; workplace relations; workforce diversity; ageing workforce; retirement; retirement planning; working after aged 50	Media office
Victoria Fielding	Doctor	Media representation on politics, political communication including election campaigning	Media office
Yan Tan	Associate Professor	International migration; diaspora and development; climate change; migration; adaptation in China and Australia; internal migration and urbanisation in China; Environment and development-induced displacement and resettlement; demographic change	Media office
Yassine Souilmi	Doctor	Human evolution; adaptation; natural selection; genomics; indigenous genomics	0466 632 395
Zachary Munn	Professor	Combating misinformation and the importance of using research to inform decisions; making sure policy and practice recommendations are based on high quality research; how we can get research evidence into practice; fraud and error in research	0409 843 732

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