PERSONNEL
The following people were Centre members during 2021. 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 - outgoing)
Tim Garoni, Outreach (MU – incoming)
Kerrie Mengersen, Stakeholder Engagement (QUT)
Scott Sisson, Media & Communications (UNSW)
Chief Operating Officer
Emily Duane (UoM)
Anita Vecchies (UoM) - maternity leave replacement until June
Professional Staff
Helena Beck (UTS)
Angela Dahlke (QUT)
Valentina di Marco (QUT)
Emily Duane (UoM)
Victoria Edwards (UoA)
Ben Hess (UoM)
Sorabh Jain (UTS)
Sarah Keany (UoA)
Tracy Kelly (QUT)
Luna Liu (UoM)
Tim Macuga (QUT)
Kris Mann (QUT)
Minh Nguyen (UoM)
Angelika Nikolov-Arvela (MU)
Anita Ponsaing (UoA)
Anita Vecchies (UoM)
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, they 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)
Tim Garoni (MU)
Rob Hyndman (MU)
Robert Kohn (UNSW)
Dirk Kroese (UQ)
Kerrie Mengersen (QUT)
Lewis Mitchell (UoA)
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.
Petra Kuhnert, CSIRO
Walter Willinger, AT&T
Daniel Elazar, ABS
Anders Holmberg, ABS
Keith Weegburg, VicRoads
Juan Ortiz, AIMS
Kerrin Bleicher, 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.
Elma Akand (UNSW)
Jessica Benitez Mendieta (QUT)
Laura Boyle (UoA)
Stephanie Clark (UTS)
Tian Cong (UNSW)
Stephen Crotty (UoA)
KD Dang (UTS)
Qibin Duan (QUT)
Xuhui Fan (UNSW)
Megan Farquhar (QUT)
Puwasala Gamakumara (MU)
Lachlan Gibson (UQ)
Marcus Hoerger (UQ)
Stuart Lee (MU)
Zhuo Li (MU)
Luca Maestrini (UTS)
Jiadong Mao (UoM)
Clare Anne McGrory (QUT)
Sarat Babu Moka (UQ)
Steven Psaltis (QUT)
Samithree Rajapaksha (MU)
Gajan Suthokumar (UNSW)
Dorota Toczydlowska (UTS)
Chris van der Heide (UQ)
David Warne (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.
Luis Torres Andrade (MU)
Matthew Adams (QUT)
Azam Asanjarani (Auckland)
Peter Ballard (UoA)
Andrew Barbour (UoM)
Adrian Barnett (QUT)
Nigel Bean (UoA)
Tomasz Bednarz (UNSW)
Boris Beranger (UNSW)
Andrew Black (UoA)
Rhys Bowden (UoM)
Peter Braunsteins (UoM)
James Brown (UTS)
Pamela Burrage (QUT)
Julian Caley (QUT)
Jess Cameron (Cancer Council QLD)
Nathan Clisby (Swinburne)
Andrea Collevecchio (MU)
Dianne Cook (MU)
Paul Corry (QUT)
Alysson Costa (UoM)
Susanna Cramb (QUT)
Tiangang Cui (MU)
Aaron Darling (UTS)
Hans De Sterck (Waterloo)
Simon Denman (QUT)
Chris Drovandi (QUT)
Ali Eshragh (Newcastle)
Mark Fackrell (UoM)
Yanan Fan (UNSW)
Megan Farquhar (QUT)
Troy Farrell (QUT)
Denzil G. Fiebig (UNSW)
David Frazier (MU)
Jing Fu (RMIT)
Alexandr Garbali (UoM)
Tim Graham (QUT)
Clara Grazian (UNSW)
Jens C Grimm (Capgemini)
David Gunawan (Wollongong)
Anthony Guttmann (UoM)
Shovanur Haque (QUT)
Sophie Hautphenne (UoM)
Markus Hegland (ANU)
Kate Helmstedt (QUT)
Jacinta Holloway-Brown (QUT)
Wei Huang (UoM)
Mel Humphries (UoA)
Hon Hwang (UNSW)
Jesper Ipsen (UoM)
Wang Jin (UNSW)
Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi (RMIT)
Paul Keeler (UoM)
Jonathan Keith (MU)
Bonsoo Koo (MU)
Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux (UNSW)
Brodie Lawson (QUT)
Catherine Leigh (RMIT)
Zhiyong Li (QUT)
Zhuo Li (MU)
Jess Liebig (CSIRO)
Jaslene Lin (Macquarie)
Benoit Liquet (Macquarie)
Ruben Loaiza-Maya (MU)
Jack Maclean (UoA)
Shev MacNamara (UTS)
Gael Martin (MU)
Anthony Mays (UoM)
James McGree (QUT)
Ross McVinish (UQ)
Patricia Menendez (MU)
Lewis Mitchell (UoA)
Asghar Moeini (Curtin)
Pablo Montero Manso (USyd)
Miranda Mortlock (QUT)
Mario Andres Munoz Acosta (UoM)
Mehwish Nasim (UoA)
Giang Nguyen (UoA)
Malgorzata O'Reilly (UTas)
Oscar Peralta Gutierrez (UoA)
Aiden Price (QUT)
Steven Psaltis (QUT)
Guoqi Qian (UoM)
Thomas Quella (UoM)
Rachael Quill (UoM/Weatherzone)
Matias Quiroz (UTS)
Samithree Rajapaksha (MU)
Nick Read (UoM)
Ben Rohrlach (UoA)
Fred Roosta (UQ)
Joshua Ross (UoA)
Nathan Ross (UoM)
Ben Rubinstein (UoM)
Robert Salomone (QUT)
Kate Saunders (QUT)
Dan Simpson (MU)
Matthew Simpson (QUT)
Nikki Sonenberg (UoM/Alan Turing Institute)
Leah South (QUT)
Laleh Tafakori (RMIT)
Thomas Taimre (UQ)
Priyanga Dilini Talagala (Moratuwa)
Thiyanga Talagala (Sri Jayewardenepura)
Emi Tanaka (MU)
Duncan Taylor (Forensic Science SA)
Nick Tierney (MU/Curtin)
Minh Ngoc Tran (USyd)
Simon Tuke (UoA)
Insha Ullah (QUT)
Radislav Vaisman (UQ)
Julie Vercelloni (QUT)
Mattias Villani (Linköping)
Earo Wang (Auckland)
Michael Wheeler (UoM)
Gentry White (QUT)
Jason Whyte (UoM)
Walter Willinger (NIKSUN)
Stephen Woodcock (UTS)
Alan Woodley (QUT)
Paul Wu (QUT)
Nan Ye (UQ)
Lele (Joyce) 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)
Hossein Alipour (UoM)
William Allan (UoA)
Ben Amiet (MU)
Xingyu An (QUT)
Hugh Andersen (QUT)
Anton Andreacchio (UoA)
Ashley Andrews (MU)
Sahil Balak (MU)
Igor Balnozan (UNSW)
Edward Barker (UoM)
Jasper Barr (UoA)
Cameron Baulderstone (UoA)
Mark Baxendale (QUT)
Joshua Bean (UoA)
Sarah Belet (MU)
Lakshan Bernard (MU)
Anand Bharadwaj (UoM)
Aishwarya Bhaskaran (UTS)
Lingbin Bian (MU)
Joshua Bon (QUT)
Imke Botha (QUT)
Adam Bretherton (QUT)
Lachlan Bridges (UoA)
Nicholas Bridges (UoA)
Alex Browning (QUT)
Raiha Browning (QUT)
Katie Buchhorn (QUT)
Mi-Thao Bui (MU)
Vanessa Buller-Haller (QUT)
Lou Campbell (UoA)
Scott Carnie-Bronca (UoA)
Michael Carr (QUT)
Huan Chen (MU)
Sophie Chen (MU)
Fan Cheng (MU)
Hannah Chesterman (UoM)
Aaron Chong (UoM)
Alex Cooper (MU)
Matthew Cooper (QUT)
James Cormack (UoA)
Rixon Crane (UQ)
Rose Crocker (UoA)
Hung Dao (UNSW)
Neel Date (UoM)
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)
Thamalikha Dissanayake (UoM)
Wala Draidi (QUT)
Kalpani Ishara Duwalage (QUT)
Michael Fairbrother (UoA)
Andrew Feutrill (UoA)
Owen Forbes (QUT)
Jack Ford Morgan (QUT)
Anny Francis (UNSW)
Boxiang Fu (UoM)
Yuhan Gai (UoM)
Trish Gilholm (QUT)
Max Glonek (UoA)
Ethan Goan (QUT)
Thomas Goodwin (UTS)
Patrick Grant (QUT)
Lachlan Griffin (QUT)
Hritika Gupta (UoM)
Sayani Gupta (MU)
Adam Hamilton (UoA)
Bryce Hart (QUT)
Ashley Hasnson (UoM)
Conor Hassan (QUT)
Patrick Hassard (QUT)
Virginia He (UTS)
Samudra Herath (UoA)
Grace Heron (QUT)
Jamie Hogg (QUT)
Jacinta Holloway-Brown (QUT)
Shuwen Hu (QUT)
Farzana Jahan (QUT)
Sarah James (UoA)
Harshanie Jayetileke (QUT)
Chunxi Jiao (USyd)
Calvin Johnson (QUT)
Nicholas Johnson (UQ)
Jun Ju (UQ)
Nehleh Kargarfard (UTS)
Amin Karimi (UoM)
Wathsala Karunarathne (UoM)
Vivek Katiel (UoM)
Xiongwen Ke (UNSW)
Shamika Prasadini Kekulthotuwage Don (QUT)
Ryan Kelly (QUT)
Fiona Kim (UNSW)
Jonah Klowss (QUT)
Miles Koumouris (UoM)
Oliver Krzysik (MU)
Aline Kunnel (UoA)
Anthony Kwong (UoA)
Michael Law (UoM)
Yeming Lei (UQ)
Angus Lewis (UoA)
Dan Li (QUT)
Jiayu Li (MU)
Patrick Li (MU)
Xian Li (UNSW)
Shan Lin (UoA)
Dennis Liu (UoA)
Yang Liu (UQ)
Tiffany Lo (UoM)
Oliver Lountain (UoA)
Zhichong Lu (UoM)
Yiran Ma (UoM)
Achini Madduma Wellalage (UoM)
Jesse Madeley (QUT)
Saka Magsarjav (UoA)
Amalan Mahendran (QUT)
David Maine (UQ)
Aron Malkinson (MU)
Harriet Mason (MU)
Trevor Matthews (UoA)
James McBroom (QUT)
Kyle Mclaren (QUT)
William Mead (UoM)
Somya Mehra (UoM)
Hayden Moffat (QUT)
Abraj Mohomed Haseem Mohomed Amsar (QUT)
Dylan Morris (UoA)
Hayden Morris (MU)
Ryan Moseni (UTS)
Curtis Murray (UoA)
Saleh Naghdi (UoM)
Aby Nasrawi (MU)
Nick Nguyen (UNSW)
Behrooz Niknami (UoM)
Matthew Nitschke (UoA)
Luke O'Loughlin (UoA)
Mitchell O'Sullivan (QUT)
Nuwani Palihawadana (MU)
Antonio Parrella (UoA)
Eric Parsonage (UoA)
Rex Parsons (QUT)
Jon Peppinck (QUT)
Aram Perez (MU)
Doug Phillips (QUT)
Richard Pinter (MU)
Stanislav Polishchuk (MU)
Armin Pourkhanali (MU)
Joshua Price (UoA)
Anas Rahman (UoM)
Prosha Rahman (UNSW)
Jacinta Roberts (QUT)
Ephraim Rogers (UoA)
Matt Ryan (UoA)
Sam Sail (UoM)
Sophie Schiller (UoA)
Dilinie Seimon (MU)
Jesse Sharp (QUT)
Harry Sisley (QUT)
Miriam Slattery (UoA)
Bridget Smart (UoA)
Aaron Snoswell (UQ)
Paula Sobenko Hatum (QUT)
Sean Solari (MU)
Tobin South (UoA)
Angus Southwell (MU)
Nicholas Spyrison (MU)
Amy Stringer (QUT)
Shian Su (UoM)
Christina Tait (UoA)
Ruoxu Tan (UoM)
Jiajun Tang (UoM)
Jack Thatcher (MU)
Jesse Tonkin (UoA)
Thanh Dat Tran (MU)
Allan Trinh (UoM)
Michael Ucci (UoA)
Varsha Ujjinni Vijay Kumar (MU)
Anthony Vine (QUT)
Sarah Vollert (QUT)
James Walker (MU)
Jiesen Wang (UoM)
Joshua Watt (UoA)
Riley Whebell (QUT)
Chaya Nirmani Weerasinghe Wijendra Patabedi Muhamdiramalage (MU)
Kym Wilkins (UoA)
Stella Wiradimulia (UNSW)
John Worrall (QUT)
Jinran Wu (QUT)
Chenchen Xing (UoM)
Yan Yablonovskiy (MU)
Fin Yang (MU)
Yu Yang (UNSW)
Alice Yao (UQ)
Estefania Yap (UoM)
Samantha Young (UoM)
James Yu (UTS)
Baihe Zhang (MU)
Sherry Zhang (MU)
Jiyuan Zhang (UoM)
Lina Zhang (MU)
Ze Yu Zhong (MU)
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.
Glenn Brown (QUT)
Alex Browning (QUT)
Mary Coupland (UTS)
Nicholas Fisher (USyd)
Jack Ford Morgan (QUT)
Sayani Gupta (MU)
Anthony Harradine (Prince Alfred College)
Grace Heron (QUT)
Kate Irwin (QUT)
Mark Lawrence (UoA)
Juan Muriel (Deakin)
Mitchell O'Hara-Wild (MU)
Jacob Priddle (QUT)
Jacinta Roberts (QUT)
Dilinie Seimon (MU)
Jesse Sharp (QUT)
Amy Stringer (QUT)
Varsha Ujjinni Vijay Kumar (MU)
Alan Yu (QUT)
Duoyi Zhang (QUT)