PERSONNEL
The following people were Centre members during 2019. Members appear in multiple categories if their role in the Centre changed during the year.
Director
Peter Taylor (UoM)
Deputy Directors
Nigel Bean, Outreach (UoA)
Kerrie Mengersen, Stakeholder Engagement (QUT)
Scott Sisson, Media & Communications (UNSW)
Chief Operating Officer
Emily Duane (UoM)
Kate Lowry (UoM) – maternity leave replacement until June
Professional Staff
Kay Cheng (UTS)
Claudia Deasy (QUT)
Sam Gaul (UoM)
Kate Hall (UoM)
Ben Hess (UoM)
Sorabh Jain (UTS)
Sarah Keany (UoA)
Tracy Kelly (QUT)
Luna Liu (UoM)
Tim Macuga (QUT)
Minh Nguyen (UoM)
Angelika Nikolov-Arvela (MU)
Cassandra Picot (UNSW)
Anita Ponsaing (UoM)
Jessie Roberts (QUT)
Jodie Schluter (UoA)
Rosanna Verde (UoM)
Zosia Wargocka (UNSW)
Chief Investigators
A Chief Investigator is a member named in Schedule A of the ARC Centre of Excellence Funding Agreement as a Chief Investigator. This person has direct responsibility to the ARC for delivering on ACEMS objectives. Usually, he or she will have overall intellectual responsibility for an ACEMS research project, leading research, providing effective supervision to students and mentoring as required.
Nigel Bean (UoA)
Kevin Burrage (QUT)
Jan de Gier (UoM)
Aurore Delaigle (UoM)
Peter Forrester (UoM)
Timothy Garoni (MU)
Rob Hyndman (MU)
Robert Kohn (UNSW)
Dirk Kroese (UQ)
Kerrie Mengersen (QUT)
Anthony Pettitt (QUT)
Phil Pollett (UQ)
Matthew Roughan (UoA)
Louise Ryan (UTS)
Scott Sisson (UNSW)
Kate Smith-Miles (UoM)
Peter Taylor (UoM)
Ian Turner (QUT)
Matt Wand (UTS)
You-Gan Wang (QUT)
Partner Investigators
A Partner Investigator is a member employed at a Partner Organisation, who is the main contact for that organisation. The person may collaborate with an ACEMS Chief Investigator, act as the main contact for access to in-kind contributions, and contributes to strategic decisions as required.
Tomasz Bednarz, CSIRO
Petra Kuhnert, CSIRO
Walter Willinger, AT&T
Siu-Ming Tam, ABS
Daniel Elazar, ABS
Anders Holmberg, ABS
Arvind Gupta, Mitacs
Keith Weeburg, Vicroads
Patricia Menendez, AIMS
Juan Ortiz, AIMS
Mark Bartlett, SAX Institute
Research Fellows
A Research Fellow is employed by ACEMS to work directly on an ACEMS research project. The person is responsible for contributing to research, helping with mentoring students and other activities as directed by their supervisor.
Matthew Adams (UQ)
Toktam Babaei (QUT)
Laura Boyle (UoA)
Peter Braunsteins (UQ)
Jess Cameron (QUT)
Wilson Chen (UTS)
Stephen Crotty (UoA)
Doan Khue Dung Dang (UTS)
Qibin Duan (QUT)
Earl Duncan (QUT)
Xuhui Fan (UNSW)
Megan Farquhar (QUT)
Mehdi Foumani (UoM)
Alexandr Garbali (UoM)
David Gunawan (UNSW)
Liam Hodgkinson (UQ)
Jesper Ipsen (UoM)
Je Guk Kim (UQ)
Jules Lamers (UoM)
Brodie Lawson (QUT)
Shi-Hao Li (UoM)
Benoit Liquet (QUT)
Luca Maestrini (UTS)
Tarunendu Mapder (QUT)
Clare Anne McGrory (QUT)
Sarat Babu Moka (UQ)
Pablo Montero Manso (MU)
Steven Psaltis (QUT)
Rachael Quill (UoA)
Matias Quiroz (UNSW)
Robert Salomone (UQ/UNSW)
Aminath Shausan (QUT)
Matthieu Simon (UoM)
Dorota Toczydlowska (UTS)
Insha Ullah (QUT)
Chris van der Heide (UQ)
Na Wang (QUT)
Zongzheng Zhou (MU)
Associate Investigators
An Associate Investigator is a member nominated by a Chief Investigator and approved by the Executive Committee, who is employed at an Australian or overseas research institution. An Associate Investigator is not a Chief Investigator but does have significant engagement with ACEMS in some way. For example, this could be by engaging in a significant and ongoing research project in conjunction with an ACEMS Chief Investigator or by being a joint supervisor of an ACEMS student. Associate Investigators are appointed for renewable two-year terms.
Azam Asanjarani (Auckland)
Davaatseren Baatar (MU)
David Balding (UoM)
Peter Ballard (UoA)
Andrew Barbour (UoM)
Adrian Barnett (QUT)
Peter Bartlett (Berkeley)
Nick Beaton (UoM)
Tomasz Bednarz (UNSW)
Hernan Benitez (U Javeriana)
Boris Beranger (UNSW)
Andrew Black (UoA)
Michael Bode (QUT)
Howard Bondell (UoM)
Kostya Borovkov (UoM)
Rhys Bowden (UoM)
Richard Boys (UON)
Peter Braunsteins (UoM)
James Brown (UTS)
Ross Brown (QUT)
Pamela Burrage (QUT)
Julian Caley (QUT)
Jess Cameron (QUT/Cancer Council QLD)
Chris Carter (UNSW)
Nathan Clisby (Swin)
Andrea Collevecchio (MU)
Dianne Cook (MU)
Robert Cope (UoA)
Paul Corry (QUT)
Alysson Costa (UoM)
Susanna Cramb (QUT)
Sally Cripps (USyd)
Tiangang Cui (MU)
Daryl Daley (UoM)
Aaron Darling (UTS)
Hans De Sterck (MU)
Chris Drovandi (QUT)
Ali Eshragh (UON)
Mark Fackrell (UoM)
Yanan Fan (UNSW)
Troy Farrell (QUT)
Frank Feng (UNSW)
Davide Ferrari (UoM)
Denzil Fiebig (UNSW)
Caley Finn (UoM)
David Frazier (MU)
Jing Fu (UoM)
Clara Grazian (UNSW)
Jens C Grimm (Monash)
Anthony Guttmann (UoM)
Sophie Hautphenne (UoM)
Markus Hegland (ANU)
Kate Helmstedt (QUT)
Mojtaba Heydar (UTas)
Wei Huang (UoM)
Mel Humphries (UoA)
Hon Hwang (UNSW)
Iwan Jensen (Flinders)
Wang Jin (QUT)
Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi (UoM)
Paul Keeler (UoM)
Jonathan Keith (MU)
Mohamad Khaled (UQ)
Bonsoo Koo (MU)
Ursula Laa (MU)
Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux (UNSW)
Catherine Leigh (QUT)
Zhiyong Li (QUT)
Jaslene Lin (UoM)
Fawang Liu (QUT)
Ruben Loaiza-Maya (MU)
Shev MacNamara (UTS)
Tarunendu Mapder (QUT)
Gael Martin (MU)
Anthony Mays (UoM)
James McGree (QUT)
Ross McVinish (UQ)
Patricia Menendez (MU)
Lewis Mitchell (UoA) Asghar Moeini (UoM/Curtin)
Matt Moores (QUT)
Mario Andres Munoz Acosta (UoM)
Mehwish Nasim (UoA)
Giang Nguyen (UoA)
Malgorzata O'Reilly (UTas)
John Ormerod (USyd)
Anastasios Panagiotelis (MU)
Oscar Peralta Gutierrez (UoA)
Juan Perez Bernal (U Rosario)
Erin Peterson (QUT)
Guoqi Qian (UoM)
Thomas Quella (UoM)
Rachael Quill (UoA)
Matias Quiroz (UTS)
Charl Ras (UoM)
Nick Read (UoM)
David Ridout (UoM)
Ben Rohrlach (UoA)
Leonardo Rojas-Nandayapa (UQ)
Fred Roosta (UQ)
Joshua Ross (UoA)
Nathan Ross (UoM)
Ben Rubinstein (UoM)
Edgar Santos-Fernandez (QUT)
Kate Saunders (TU Delft)
Matthew Simpson (QUT)
Nikki Sonenberg (UoM)
Laleh Tafakori (RMIT)
Thomas Taimre (UQ)
Priyanga Dilini Talagala (MU)
Nick Tierney (MU)
Ali Tirdad (UoM)
Minh Ngoc Tran (USyd)
Jono Tuke (UoA)
Insha Ullah (QUT)
Radislav Vaisman (UQ)
Julie Vercelloni (QUT)
Mattias Villani (Linköping)
Susan Wei (UoM)
Michael Wheeler (UoM)
Gentry White (QUT)
Nicole White (QUT)
Jason Whyte (UoM)
Walter Willinger (Niksun)
Stephen Woodcock (UTS)
Alan Woodley (QUT)
Paul Wu (QUT)
Hongbo Xie (QUT)
Qianqian Yang (QUT)
Nan Ye (UQ)
Lele (Joyce) Zhang (UoM)
Zhuosong Zhang (UoM)
Paul Zinn-Justin (UoM)
Students
A Student is a member who is either:
- supervised by an ACEMS Chief Investigator;
- a recipient of an ACEMS top-up scholarship; or,
- supervised by an ACEMS Associate Investigator or Research Fellow in a project that forms part of ACEMS activities.
William Abbott (UoA)
Aregawi Abera (UTas)
Pubudu Abeysiri Wickrama Liyanaarachchige (QUT)
Zeke Ahern (QUT)
Punya Alahakoon (UoM)
Fadhah Alanazi (QUT)
Hossein Alipour (UoM)
Nandha Ambalika (QUT)
Ben Amiet (MU)
Ziwen An (QUT)
Hugh Andersen (QUT)
Anton Andreacchio (UoA)
Aswi Aswi (QUT)
Igor Balnozan (UNSW)
Edward Barker (UoM)
Mark Baxendale (QUT)
Joshua Bean (UoA)
Sarah Belet (MU)
Liam Berry (UQ)
Abhishek Bhardwaj (ANU)
Aishwarya Bhaskaran (UTS)
Lingbin Bian (MU)
Joshua Bon (QUT)
Imke Botha (QUT)
Simon Bowly (UoM)
Adam Bretherton (QUT)
Lachlan Bridges (UoA)
Alex Browning (QUT)
Raiha Browning (QUT)
Lou Campbell (UoA)
Scott Carnie-Bronca (UoA)
Robin Carrick (UQ)
Zach Carroll (QUT)
Chuju Chen (UNSW)
Sophie Chen (MU)
Jiaxin Chen (UNSW)
Zeying Chen (UoM)
Fan Cheng (MU)
Vincent Chin (UNSW)
Aaron Chong (UoM)
Matthew Civitarese (QUT)
Brigitte Colin (QUT)
Eamon Conway (QUT)
Alex Cooper (MU)
Matthew Cooper (QUT)
Rixon Crane (UQ)
Rose Crocker (UoA)
Sam Daley (UQ)
Doan Khue Dung Dang (UNSW)
Hung Dao (UNSW)
Laurence Davies (QUT)
Mohammad Davoudabadi (QUT)
Dilishiya De Silva (QUT)
Matthew DeMaere (UTS)
Ashley Dennis-Henderson (UoA)
Vektor Dewanto (UQ)
Hom Nath Dhungana (UTS)
Valentina di Marco (MU)
Zhe Ding (QUT)
Debajit Dutta (UoM)
Kalpani Ishara Duwalage (QUT)
Anthony Ebert (QUT)
Michelle Edwards (UoA)
Steven Edwards (MU)
Libo Feng (QUT)
Yussie Feng (UNSW)
Andrew Feutrill (UoA)
Max Fisher (UNSW)
Jack Ford Morgan (QUT)
Puwasala Gamakumara (MU)
Yang Gao (UNSW)
Trish Gilholm (QUT)
Max Glonek (UoA)
Ethan Goan (QUT)
Morgan Grant (UQ)
Caitlin Gray (UoA)
Lachlan Griffin (QUT)
Yajing Guo (UoM)
Zifeng Guo (MU)
Sayani Gupta (MU)
Vanessa Haller-Bull Haller (QUT)
Adam Hamilton (UoA)
Patrick Hassard (QUT)
Alexander Hasson (QUT)
Samudra Herath (UoA)
Reuben Hill (QUT)
Liam Hodgkinson (UQ)
Jacinta Holloway Brown (QUT)
Shuwen Hu (QUT)
Wei Huang (UoM)
Hon Hwang (UTS)
Tim Hyndman (UoM)
Farzana Jahan (QUT)
Sarah James (UoA)
Brandon Janson (QUT)
Harshanie Jayetileke (QUT)
Jade Jiang (UNSW)
Yueqi Jiang (UNSW)
Nicholas Johnson (UQ)
Scott Jones (QUT)
William Jordan (UoA)
Lachlan Kang (UoA)
Wathsala Karunarathne (UoM)
Xiongwen Ke (UNSW)
Shamika Prasadini Kekulthotuwage Don (QUT)
Daniel Kennedy (QUT)
Fiona Kim (UNSW)
Stephanie Kobakian (QUT)
Oliver Krzysik (MU)
Lachlan Kuhr (QUT)
Ashwani Kumar (UoM)
Aline Kunnel (UoA)
Anthony Kwong (UoA)
Stuart Lee (MU)
Angus Lewis (UoA)
Dan Li (QUT)
Jiaxiong Li (UNSW)
Leo Li (UoM)
Irene Li (UoM)
Shan Shan Lin (UoA)
Bing Liu (UoM)
Dennis Liu (UoA)
Kelvin Liu (UoM)
Jonathon Liu (UoM)
Yang Liu (UQ)
Tiffany Lo (UoM)
Oliver Lountain (UoA)
Achini Madduma Wellalage (UoM)
Amalan Mahendran (QUT)
Alan Malecki (UTS)
Jiadong Mao (UoM)
Trevor Matthews (UoA)
Fenella McAndrew (UoM)
Lachlann McArthur (UoA)
James McBroom (QUT)
Kyle Mclaren (QUT)
William Mead (UoM)
Hayden Moffat (QUT)
Abraj Mohomed Haseem Mohomed Amsar (QUT)
Dylan Morris (UoA)
Ryan Moseni (UTS)
Curtis Murray (UoA)
Kanchana Nadarajah (MU)
Forough Najarbehbahani (UNSW)
Aby Nasrawi (MU)
Nick Nguyen (UNSW)
Tan Nguyen (QUT)
Olina Ngwenya (QUT)
Behrooz Niknami (UoM)
Matthew Nitschke (UoA)
Tui Nolan (UTS)
Mitch O'Sullivan (QUT)
Yichong Pan (UNSW)
Eric Parsonage (UoA)
Brendan Patch (UQ)
Jon Peppinck (QUT)
Doug Phillips (QUT)
Ramethaa Pirathiban (QUT)
Stanislav Polishchuk (MU)
Armin Pourkhanali (MU)
Aiden Price (QUT)
Jacob Priddle (QUT)
Anas Rahman (UoM)
Prosha Rahman (UNSW)
Samithree Rajapaksha (MU)
Alexander Ratcliff (QUT)
Tristan Reddan (QUT)
Si Ren (UoM)
Shabib Rizvi (UNSW)
Cameron Roach (MU)
Jessie Roberts (QUT)
Em Rushworth (QUT)
Matt Ryan (UoA)
Aviva Samuelson (UTas)
Kate Saunders (UoM)
Sophie Schiller (UoA)
Shrupa Shah (UoM)
Jesse Sharp (QUT)
Somayeh Shiri (MU)
Alex Simmons (QUT)
Miriam Slattery (UoA)
Leah South (QUT)
Tobin South (UoA)
Angus Southwell (MU)
Jianing Sun (UQ)
Nat Sundara (UNSW)
Harish Suresh (UoM)
Matt Sutton (QUT)
Priyanga Dilini Talagala (MU)
Thiyanga Talagala (MU)
Ruoxu Tan (UoM)
Jiajun Tang (UoM)
Xu Tang (UNSW)
Michael Toboia (UNSW)
James Totterdell (UNSW)
Jason Tran (UoM)
Ninh Tran (UoM)
Allan Trinh (UoM)
Russell Tsuchida (UQ)
Tea Uggen (UTS)
Abhishek Varghese (QUT)
Aapeli Vuorinen (UoM)
James Walker (UoA)
Bowen Wang (UNSW)
Earo Wang (MU)
Erli Wang (UQ)
Jiesen Wang (UoM)
Itsi Weinstock (UoM)
Riley Whebell (QUT)
Tom Whitaker (UNSW)
Kym Wilkins (UoA)
Fergus Willsmore (UoA)
Jonathan Wilton (UQ)
Lewis Wright (UNSW)
Jianyun Wu (QUT)
Jinran Wu (QUT)
Logan Wu (UoM)
Max Wurm (UoA)
Zhongyuan Xie (UNSW)
Mingda Xu (UNSW)
Mo Xu (UNSW)
Yan Yablonovskiy (MU)
Yu Yang (UNSW)
Alice Yao (UQ)
Estefania Yap (UoM)
James Yu (UTS)
Daiqui Yuan (UNSW)
Jiyuan Zhang (UoM)
Ziwen Zhong (MU)
Ryan Zischke (MU)
Affiliate Members
An Affiliate Member is a person engaged in ACEMS outreach or stakeholder activities, or who contributes to ACEMS via other non-research activities.
Mary Coupland (UTS)
Tanya Dodgen (QUT)
Nicholas Fisher (USyd)
Lawrence Garufi (QUT)
Robyn Grote (QUT)
Anthony Harradine (Prince Alfred College)
Grace Heron (QUT)
Jacinta Holloway Brown (QUT)
Mark Lawrence (UoA)
Miles McBain (QUT)
Mitchell O'Hara-Wild (MU)
Michael O'Shea (QUT)
Alan Pearse (QUT)
Alan Yu (QUT)