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Dr Mark Whitty

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Horticultural crop growth and development, Oenology and viticulture, Automation engineering, Autonomous vehicle systems, Field robotics, Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, Intelligent robotics, Computer vision, Image processing
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Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production

Wine Grapes

Horticultural Crops

Mark is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Mechatronics discipline within the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

Mr Andrew Craig Blyth

Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Educational Administration, Management and Leadership

Dr Georgios Konstantinou

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Renewable Power), Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells), Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering
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Energy

Expanding Knowledge in Engineering

Renewable Energy

I am an Associate Professor in Energy Systems with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney and lead the Real-Time Simulations (RTS@UNSW).

Dr BJ Newton

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Social work, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social work and social justice, Social Policy

Associate Professor Michael John Hooper

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Music, Musicology and ethnomusicology, Music composition and improvisation, Music performance
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Music

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music

history of music

I am currently the Convenor of Music at UNSW. My teaching includes courses on critical theory, musical transformation, music and politics, and music as it relates to other arts and to everyday

Professor kylie valentine

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Social policy, Sociology of inequalities, Sociology and social studies of science and technology, Policy and administration, Gender, policy and administration, Family and household studies
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Law, Politics and Community Services

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society

Evaluation of Health Outcomes

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

kylie valentine is Director of the Social Policy Research Centre and the Centre for Social Research in Health.

Dr Timothy Heffernan

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Anthropology, Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding
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Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society

Studies in human society

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anthropology

disaster risk reduction

I am an anthropologist living and working on Gadigal Country.

Associate Professor Laurie Menviel

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Palaeoclimatology, Climate Change Processes, Chemical Oceanography, Physical Oceanography
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Climate and Climate Change

Global Effects of Climate Change and Variability (excl. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific) (excl. Social Impacts)

My research revolves around three interconnected themes: i) Assessing past changes in oceanic circulation, ii) Understanding the role of oceanic circulation in past and future abrupt clim

Associate Professor Seher Ata

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Mineral processing/beneficiation
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Dr Seher Ata is an Associate Professor in the

Professor David I Warton

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Statistics, Applied statistics, Statistical theory, Statistical data science, Ecological applications
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Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change

Expanding Knowledge

Keywords:

statistics

ecology

I am an ecological statistician who advances methodology for data analysis in ecology, to improve the ability of ecologists to answer important research questions.

Professor Jan Seidel

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Functional Materials, Nanoscale Characterisation, Optical Properties of Materials, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Condensed Matter; Superconductivity

Jan Seidel is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney. He received his doctorate from TU Dresden, Germany in 2005.

Dr Jakub Stoklosa

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Applied Statistics, Ecological Applications

Associate Professor Marc De Leeuw

Faculty: Law & Justice
Fields of Research (FoR): Law in context, History and philosophy of law and justice, Applied ethics, History and philosophy of science, Law and Legal Studies, Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology, Phenomenology, Hermeneutic and Critical Theory, Applied Ethics (incl. Bioethics and Environmental
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Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies

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critical social theory

bioethics

environmental

Dr Rob van Glabbeek

Faculty: Engineering

Rob van Glabbeek has a strong international reputation in the study of the theory of concurrent computation, having made particular co

Dr Blake Vermeer Dickson

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Evolutionary biology, Biomechanics, Palaeontology (incl. palynology)
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adaptive evolution

functional morphology

comparative anatomy

comparative biomechanics

palaeobiology

I grew up in Sydney and studied Biological Sciences at UNSW.

Associate Professor Carsten Schmitz-Peiffer

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Cell Metabolism, Signal Transduction
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Diabetes

Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences

Keywords:

type 2 diabetes

cellular signalling pathways

Carsten Schmitz-Peiffer undertook his PhD with Professor Dick Denton at Bristol University (UK), where he investigated insulin signal transduction and the regulation of fat cell metabolism.

Associate Professor Uros Cvoro

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Art theory, Visual cultures
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Understanding Europe's Past

Understanding the pasts of other societies

Associate Professor in Art Theory and Associate Dean Graduate Research at UNSW Sydney.

Associate Professor Paul Waters

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics), Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches), Genome Structure and Regulation, Developmental Genetics (incl. Sex Determination), Evolutionary Biology
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sex chromosomes

epigenetics

x chromosome inactivation

Dr David Charles Boettiger

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Economics

Professor Irina Voineagu

Faculty: Science

Research Program

Professor Jerry T Parwada

Faculty: Business
Fields of Research (FoR): Banking, Finance and Investment
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Financial Services

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institutional investment

Dr Jerry Parwada is a Professor of Finance at UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia.

Professor Serge Gaspers

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Data structures and algorithms, Theory of computation, Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, Quantum computation
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Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences

I am a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW.

Dr Monika Barthwal-Datta

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): International Relations, Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific

Monika Barthwal-Datta is Senior Lecturer in International Security in the School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney. Monika’s research areas include critical security studies, securitiz