
Dr Svetlana Tkachenko
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Mechanical engineering, Photovoltaic power systems, Photovoltaic devices (solar cells), Building
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Mechanical engineering, Photovoltaic power systems, Photovoltaic devices (solar cells), Building
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Dr Svetlana Tkachenko graduated with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at UNSW in 2018.

Associate Professor Claudia Hillenbrand
Faculty: Research & Enterprise
Fields of Research (FoR): Biomedical imaging, Neurosciences, Image processing, Radiology and organ imaging, Medical physics, Biomedical instrumentation, Deep learning, Artificial intelligence
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Faculty: Research & Enterprise
Fields of Research (FoR): Biomedical imaging, Neurosciences, Image processing, Radiology and organ imaging, Medical physics, Biomedical instrumentation, Deep learning, Artificial intelligence
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Associate Professor Claudia Hillenbrand (PhD, MBA) is the inaugural Direc

Associate Professor Stephen Bremner
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells, Compound Semiconductors, Elemental Semiconductors, Nanofabrication, Growth and Self Assembly
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells, Compound Semiconductors, Elemental Semiconductors, Nanofabrication, Growth and Self Assembly
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Dr. Stephen Bremner is an Associate Professor in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
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Dr Hendra I Nurdin
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Calculus of Variations, Systems Theory and Control Theory, Stochastic Analysis and Modelling, Mathematical Aspects of Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory, Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Calculus of Variations, Systems Theory and Control Theory, Stochastic Analysis and Modelling, Mathematical Aspects of Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory, Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
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Professor Megan Lord
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Biomedical engineering, Nanomaterials, Biomaterials, Nanomedicine
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Biomedical engineering, Nanomaterials, Biomaterials, Nanomedicine
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Megan Lord is a Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow in the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Engineering, UNSW Sydne

Dr Methma Rajamuni
Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Mechanical engineering, Applied mathematics, Fluid-structure interaction and aeroacoustics
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Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Mechanical engineering, Applied mathematics, Fluid-structure interaction and aeroacoustics
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I am a passionate research scientist, applied mathematician, and mechanical engineer dedicated to exploring dynamic systems.

Dr Michael Stevens
Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Biomedical engineering, Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified, Medical devices, Cardiovascular medicine and haematology not elsewhere classified, Process control and simulation, Modelling and simulation
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Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Biomedical engineering, Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified, Medical devices, Cardiovascular medicine and haematology not elsewhere classified, Process control and simulation, Modelling and simulation
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I am an advanced manufacturing researcher specializing in digital manufacturing for SMEs.

Associate Professor Shaghik Atakaramians
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Terahertz physics, Wireless communication systems and technologies (incl. microwave and millimetrewave), Engineering electromagnetics, Antennas and propagation
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Terahertz physics, Wireless communication systems and technologies (incl. microwave and millimetrewave), Engineering electromagnetics, Antennas and propagation
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Dr Shaghik Atakaramians is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunicat

Dr Daniel Wathanyu Eggler
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Acoustics and Noise Control (excl. Architectural Acoustics)
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Acoustics and Noise Control (excl. Architectural Acoustics)
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Daniel Eggler is an early career education focused academic within the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. His research fields are in acoustics, vibration and active control.

Dr Kurt John Douglas
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Geotechnical Engineering
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Geotechnical Engineering
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Pells Sullivan Meynink Senior Lecturer of Rock Mechanics,
Associate Head (Engagement)
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Dr Matthew Pelletier
Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Biomechanical engineering, Medical devices, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Haematology, Biomaterials, Materials engineering, Biochemistry and cell biology, Medical biotechnology
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Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Biomechanical engineering, Medical devices, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Haematology, Biomaterials, Materials engineering, Biochemistry and cell biology, Medical biotechnology
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Dr Charitha de Silva
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Turbulent flows, Aerodynamics (excl. hypersonic aerodynamics)
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Turbulent flows, Aerodynamics (excl. hypersonic aerodynamics)
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Dr Charitha de Silva is the Associate Head of School (Education) and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of New South Wales. His parti

Dr Richard Terrett
Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Theoretical and computational chemistry, Software engineering, Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation, Aerospace engineering
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Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Theoretical and computational chemistry, Software engineering, Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation, Aerospace engineering
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I am a researcher at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, working with the Canberra Kinetics Group under the direction of Professor Terry Frankcombe.

Dr Felix Aplin
Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Neurosciences, Biomedical engineering, Neural engineering, Sensory systems
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Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Neurosciences, Biomedical engineering, Neural engineering, Sensory systems
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Felix Aplin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Translational Neuroscience Facility, Faculty of Medicine & Health at UNSW Sydney.

Dr Sonit Singh
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Natural language processing, Machine learning, Deep learning, Image processing, Pattern recognition, Biomedical imaging, Intelligent robotics, Medical robotics, Computing education, Engineering education
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Natural language processing, Machine learning, Deep learning, Image processing, Pattern recognition, Biomedical imaging, Intelligent robotics, Medical robotics, Computing education, Engineering education
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Sonit Singh is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.

Associate Professor Melrose Brown
Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aerospace Engineering, Mesospheric, Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Physics, Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design
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Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aerospace Engineering, Mesospheric, Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Physics, Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design
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Associate Professor Henry Yang
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Quantum engineering systems (incl. computing and communications), Quantum information, computation and communication, Quantum technologies, Quantum physics, Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter; superconductivity, Condensed matter physics, Quantum computation, Mathematical aspects of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and quantum information theory
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Quantum engineering systems (incl. computing and communications), Quantum information, computation and communication, Quantum technologies, Quantum physics, Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter; superconductivity, Condensed matter physics, Quantum computation, Mathematical aspects of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and quantum information theory
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Dr Jennifer Helen Stansby
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Nuclear engineering (incl. fuel enrichment and waste processing and storage), Solid state chemistry, Structural properties of condensed matter, Ceramics
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Nuclear engineering (incl. fuel enrichment and waste processing and storage), Solid state chemistry, Structural properties of condensed matter, Ceramics
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Jennifer completed her PhD on energy storage materials at UNSW and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), before joining the UNSW Nuclear Engineering team, fi

Dr Felipe Arrano Vargas
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Electrical engineering, Electrical circuits and systems, Electrical energy transmission, networks and systems
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Electrical engineering, Electrical circuits and systems, Electrical energy transmission, networks and systems
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I am an Engineering Early Career Academic Fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications and a Research Fellow with the Real-Time Simulations Laboratory (

Dr Peter Neal
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Chemical Engineering, Environment and Resource Economics, Chemical Engineering Design, Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering, Water Treatment Processes, Education Studies not elsewhere classified
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Chemical Engineering, Environment and Resource Economics, Chemical Engineering Design, Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering, Water Treatment Processes, Education Studies not elsewhere classified
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Peter Neal is an Education Focused senior lecturer and Academic Governance Coordinator with UNSW Chemical Engineering.

Associate Professor Jinling Wang
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Navigation and position fixing, Geodesy, Satellite-based positioning, Navigation and Position Fixing
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Navigation and position fixing, Geodesy, Satellite-based positioning, Navigation and Position Fixing
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Professor Bing-Jie Ni
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Chemical engineering, Environmental engineering, Environmental biotechnology, Wastewater treatment processes, Microbiology, Electrochemical energy storage and conversion, Electrochemistry, Fermentation
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Chemical engineering, Environmental engineering, Environmental biotechnology, Wastewater treatment processes, Microbiology, Electrochemical energy storage and conversion, Electrochemistry, Fermentation
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Professor Bing-Jie (Bruce) Ni received his PhD degree in environmental engineering in June 2009. He currently is an ARC Future Fellow and full professor at UNSW Sydney.

Dr Daniel O'Shea
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Solid Mechanics, Biomechanics, Structural Engineering, Composite Materials, Civil Engineering
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Solid Mechanics, Biomechanics, Structural Engineering, Composite Materials, Civil Engineering
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Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Professor Tracie Barber
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Biomedical fluid mechanics, Fundamental and theoretical fluid dynamics, Bio-fluids, Experimental methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer , Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics) , Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering, Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering not elsewhere classified
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Biomedical fluid mechanics, Fundamental and theoretical fluid dynamics, Bio-fluids, Experimental methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer , Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics) , Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering, Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering not elsewhere classified
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TRACIE BARBER

Dr Kok Wai Chan
Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information, Computation and Communication, Quantum Physics, Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits, Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits, Nanoelectronics, Nanoelectronics
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Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information, Computation and Communication, Quantum Physics, Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits, Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits, Nanoelectronics, Nanoelectronics
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Australian Research Council Industry Fellow (July 2023 – current)