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Dr Maryam Ghodrat

Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Computational Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Heat and Mass Transfer Operations, Fire Management
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Urban and Industrial Air Quality

Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design

Natural Hazards

Environmental Management Systems

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics

combustion

fire

li-ion battery

heat transfer mechanism

convection heat transport

conjugate heat transfer

smart buildings

design fire

Dr Maryam Ghodrat is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering specialised in Thermal Fluid and Energy System with key focus on fire dynamics and ignition modeling.

Miss Lily Jane Pearson

Faculty: Medicine & Health

Lily is a PhD candidate studying the diversity of inner ear neurons. She works in the Translational Neuroscience Facility in the School of Biomedical Sciences (Physiology).

Dr Ali Najmi

Faculty: Engineering

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Dr Yichao Xu

Faculty: Business

Yichao Xu is a lecturer at the School of Information Systems & Technology Management, UNSW Business School. She received her Ph.D.

Dr Tiffany Leung

Faculty: Medicine & Health

I work on mathematical models of infectious disease transmission to understand the impact of public health interventions such as vaccination.

Professor Lynne Bilston

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Public Health and Health Services, Biomechanical Engineering, Biomechanics, Radiology and Organ Imaging, Respiratory Diseases, Central Nervous System
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Injury Control

Expanding Knowledge

Respiratory System and Diseases (incl. Asthma)

Keywords:

magnetic resonance elastography

road safety

biomechanics

obstructive sleep apnea

injury

spinal cord injury and repair

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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.

Dr Javad Foroughi

Faculty: Engineering
Keywords:

biomedical application

carbon nanotubes

reduced graphene oxide

drug delivery systems

Emeritus Scientia Professor Peter Aggleton

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Sociology, Gender, sexuality and education, Sociology of health, Health promotion, Public health
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Gender and Sexualities

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

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Peter Aggleton is a social scientist with a background in policy studies, educ

Associate Professor Yulei Sui

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Software engineering, Programming languages, Software testing, verification and validation

Professor Xiao Hua Wang

Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Physical Oceanography, Economic Development Policy, Environmental Management, Ecological Impacts of Climate Change, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Climate Change Processes

Professor Xiao (Hua) Wang graduated from Ocean University of China, and holds a PhD in Physical Oceanography from James Cook University in Australia.

Mr Zhaoxi Zheng

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Sociology, Sociology of health
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Dr Zhaoxi Zheng is a sociologist, thanatologist, and an award-winning university educator. Zhaoxi’s works centre around the sociologies of health and illness and contri

Mr Van Duc Le

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Cyberphysical systems and internet of things, Sensory systems, Stream and sensor data, Energy-efficient computing, Mobile computing, Machine learning, Reinforcement learning
Keywords:

ubiquitous sensor network

cyber-physical systems

energy-aware sensing

deep learning

green cloud computing

computer vision

deep learning

Dr Van Duc Le is currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney.

Dr Sultan Mohammad B Alotaibi

Faculty: Medicine & Health

Dr. Sultan Alotaibi is an Assistant Professor and Optometrist at the Optometry Department of King Saud University.

Mr Eh Hau Pan

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Chemical Engineering

Laboratory Manager School of Chemical Engineering EDUCATION

Mr Amir Chiti Zadeh

Faculty: Business
Fields of Research (FoR): International Business
Keywords:

international business

tacit knowledge

global value chain

emerging markets

Associate Professor Noam Peleg

Faculty: Law & Justice
Fields of Research (FoR): International humanitarian and human rights law, Family law, Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation
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Emeritus Professor Seán Cadogan

Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter; superconductivity, Solid state chemistry, Mineralogy and crystallography

Research on the magnetism and crystallography of materials that contain rare-earth elements. Nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials. Meteorites.

Dr Ariella Meltzer

Faculty: Business
Fields of Research (FoR): Social policy, People with disability, Family care, Sociology of family and relationships, Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment, Social change, Social program evaluation
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Ability and Disability

Families and Family Services

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society

Youth/child development and welfare

Keywords:

disability

disability evaluation

young people

interpersonal relationships

mentoring

peer support

siblings

social impact measurement

I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact UNSW, working to help disability-focused social economy organisations (e.g.

Dr Edgar Hoe Hon Wong

Faculty: Engineering

Dr. Edgar Wong is an independent research group leader, ARC Future Fellow and UNSW Scientia Senior Lecturer at the School of Chemical Engineering.

Dr Ismail Mohamed Ismail Ali

Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Keywords:

continuous and combinatorial optimization

evolutionary algorithms

product capability provision

job scheduling

cyber security

I received my undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Computer and Information, Zagazig University, Egypt, in 2010, and my master’s and PhD degrees in computer science from the School of Engineeri

Professor Christy E Newman

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Sociology of health, Sociology of family and relationships, Sexualities, Transgender studies

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Dr Theresa Caruana

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture

Theresa Caruana is a Research Associate/Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health.

Associate Professor Izzy Jayasinghe

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases), Biochemistry and cell biology, Molecular imaging (incl. electron microscopy and neutron diffraction), Human biophysics
Keywords:

cardiac & cardiovascular systems

cell biology

biophotonics

super-resolution fluorescence microscopy

single molecule imaging

3d printing

rapid prototyping

cellular biophysics

cell signalling pathways

Associate Professor Izzy Jayasinghe was recruited to UNSW Sydney in 2023 as Head of the Department of Molecular Medicine in the School of Biomedical Sciences.