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Dr David Herrmann

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Cancer Cell Biology, Cellular Interactions (incl. Adhesion, Matrix, Cell Wall), Protein Targeting and Signal Transduction, Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
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Cancer and Related Disorders

Keywords:

cancer

pancreatic cancer

breast cancer

neoplasm invasiveness

cancer metastasis

intravital microscopy

biosensor

3d modeling

genetic mouse model

Professor Tom Denson

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Social and Community Psychology, Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Keywords:

aggression

violence

intimate partner violence

anger

emotion regulation

emotions

I am a Professor in the School of Psychology at UNSW. I am an experimental social-personality psychologist.

Emeritus Professor Paul G Patterson

Faculty: Business

Dr Emma Kate Buxton-Namisnyk

Faculty: Law & Justice
Fields of Research (FoR): International humanitarian and human rights law, Criminology, Criminal law, Gender and crime, Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander criminology
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Criminal Justice

Justice and the Law

Crime Prevention

Keywords:

criminology and criminal justice

international human rights

domestic violence

family violence

indigenous rights

Dr Emma Buxton-Namisnyk is a Senior Lecturer working on unceded Bedegal land at the School of Law, Society and Criminology in the UNSW Faculty of Law.

Dr Yanjun Liu

Faculty: Science
Keywords:

cognitive modeling

decision making

Taking a joint approach of empirical work and computational modeling, I am interested in how people make decisions in the presence of multi-dimensional information, and how decision-making, unfoldi

Professor Branka Spehar

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance, Sensory Systems, Cognitive Science
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

I completed my undergraduate degree and M.Sc.

Associate Professor Patrick John Harris

Faculty: Medicine & Health
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Social Structure and Health

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified

Political science and public policy

Environmental Health

Political science and public policy

Keywords:

healthy public policy

political science

realism

city and urban planning

infrastructure

equity

social determinants of health

urban health

I am Associate Professor and lead at the Centre for Health

Dr Amin Palangi

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Screen media, Cinema studies, Communication and media studies, Film, Television and Digital Media
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Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing

Keywords:

iran cinema exile

Amin Palangi is an Iranian filmmaker, known for his intimate and captivating portrait of people in extreme circumstances.

Dr Peter Robert White

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Communication and media studies, Journalism studies, Linguistics, Corpus linguistics, Computational linguistics, Applied linguistics and educational linguistics, Translation and interpretation studies, Communication and Media Studies, Discourse and Pragmatics, Journalism Studies, Translation and Interpretation Studies, Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics, Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics), Comparative Language Studies, Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy
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Languages and Literacy

Communication Across Languages and Culture

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society

Keywords:

linguistics

discourse analysis

systemic functional linguistics

Dr White is one of the principal architects of the Appraisal framework,an account of the means by which texts convey evaluative and attitudinal meanings.

Professor Raghu Lingam

Faculty: Medicine & Health
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Child Health

Keywords:

community-based intervention

Professor Lingam is a senior clinical academic with expertise in maternal and child health servi

Imaging genetics in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: shared neurocognitive endophenotypes

Field of Research (FoR):

Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

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Mental Health

Inherited Diseases (incl. Gene Therapy)

Nervous System and Disorders

This research investigates shared biological vulnerability for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in terms of genetic association with common neurocognitive dysfunction.

Major Karl Eiolf Vatzlavik

Faculty: UNSW Canberra

Conjoint Associate Professor Gill Schierhout

Faculty: Medicine & Health
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Health

Keywords:

health systems

policy and program evaluation

implementation science

primary care

Qualifications: BSc (Hons) PhD (Public Health/ Epidemiology)

Dr Alex Dela Cruz

Faculty: Law & Justice

Dr Alex P Dela Cruz is an international law academic with an interest in the place of the ocean in a variety of legal projects ranging from post-colonial state-ma

Dr Nima Haghdadi

Faculty: Science

I am currently an Associate Professor in Metallurgy in the Depart

Dr Thomas William Smith

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture

Thomas Smith is an Eora/Sydney based artist, musician, educator and researcher. His practice combines performance, video,

Professor Roland Goecke

Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Affective computing, Human-centred computing, Computer vision, Artificial intelligence, Human-computer interaction, Machine learning, Pattern recognition, Assistive robots and technology
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Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences

Expanding Knowledge in Technology

Mental Health

Keywords:

Affective Computing

Social Signal Processing

Computational Behaviour Analysis

Roland Goecke, Ph.D. is Professor of Affective Computing and Head of School, School of Systems & Computing at the UNSW Canberra campus.

Dr Kay Song

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Materials engineering, Metals and alloy materials, Ceramics, Nanoscale characterisation, Nuclear engineering (incl. fuel enrichment and waste processing and storage)

My research is driven by my deep belief that the world needs nuclear power and technologies to address key issues such as climate change.

Professor James Gareth Wood

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Biological Mathematics, Epidemiology, Simulation and Modelling, Infectious Diseases
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Preventive Medicine

Disease Distribution and Transmission (incl. Surveillance and Response)

Keywords:

mathematical modelling

infectious disease epidemiology

computational biology

economic evaluation

Dr James Wood is an applied mathematician with interests across a broad range from evolutionary and immunological processes to cost-effectiveness evaluations for disease interventions.

Professor Augustine Danso Asante

Faculty: Medicine & Health

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Dr Rahat Masood

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Cybersecurity and privacy, Data and information privacy, Privacy and data rights, Cybercrime, Data security and protection, Software and application security
Keywords:

critical infrastructure security

cyber security

social media analysis

Dr. Rahat Masood is currently working as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), UNSW.

Dr Negin Hesam Shariati

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Neurosciences, Biomedical engineering, Pain
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Dr Negin Hesam-Shariati is a research fellow at the School of Psychology, UNSW and an affiliated scientist in the Centre for Pain IMPACT at Neuroscience Research Australia.

Ms Amy Huynh

Faculty: Medicine & Health

Amy Huynh graduated with a Master’s degree in Orthoptics in 2016. She is a dedicated Orthoptist with a keen interest in paediatrics.

Ms Androniki Nikki Delaveris

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Ophthalmology and optometry

Nikki holds a Master's Degree in Optometry and a Graduate Certificate in Ocular Therapy from UNSW. Since 2011, she has been managing the Stewart House Satellite clinic in Curl Curl.

Professor John Storey

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Astronomical and Space Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Sciences, Tropospheric and Stratospheric Physics
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Expanding Knowledge

Environmentally Sustainable Energy Activities

Environmentally Sustainable Transport

I have an undergraduate degree in physics from La Trobe University and a PhD in chemistry from Monash University. Following a postdoctoral position at UC Berkeley I worked as a staff scientis