Staff
Director
Laureate Prof John Ralston, BSc(Hons) MSc DipEd PhD Melbourne DIC London, UK,
AO FAA FTSE
Deputy Directors
Prof Hans Griesser, DipChem SciTeachingCert PhD ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof Roger Horn, BSc(Hons) Monash PhD Cambridge, UK
Institute Manager
Terry Wilks, BSc(Hons) MSc PhD Newcastle, UK
Research Professors
Clive Prestidge, BSc(Hons) Loughborough, UK PhD Bristol, UK
Namita Roy Choudhury, BSc(Hons) BTech MTech(Hons) Calcutta, India PhD
Kharagpur, India
Associate Research Professors
Jonas Addai-Mensah, BEng(Hons) UST, Ghana MSc TIIT, Israel PhD Queensland
Daniel Fornasiero, Maitre es Science Grenoble, France PhD Adelaide
Stephen Grano, BMetEng(Hons) Queensland MAppSc SAIT PhD UniSA
Sunil Kumar, BSc(Hons) MSc(Hons) GNDU, India PhD IIT, Delhi, India
Bill Skinner, BSc Melbourne BAppSc PhD RMIT
Senior Research Fellows
David Beattie, BSc(Hons) PhD Edinburgh, UK
Naba Dutta, BSc(Hons) BTech Calcutta, India PhD Kharagpur, India
Dusan Losic, BSc Novi Sad, Serbia PhD Flinders
Hamid Manouchehri, BSc MSc(Hons) Tehran, Iran PhD Lulea, Sweden
Satomi Onishi, BSc Tokyo University of Science, Japan MSc Ibaraki, Japan PhD
Saitama, Japan
Rossen Sedev, MSc Sofia, Bulgaria PhD Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Research Fellows
Igor Ametov, BSc PhD Moscow State, Russia BEng Adelaide
Timothy Barnes, BAppSc(Hons) UniSA GradDipEd Adelaide PhD UniSA
Rick Fabretto, BSc(Hons) Flinders BEd PhD UniSA
Saeed Farrokhpay, BSc MSc Amir Kabir, Iran, PhD UniSA
Colin Hall, BAppSc(Hons) UniSA
Sarah Harmer, BAppSc(Hons) PhD UniSA
Ivan Kempson, BAppSc(Hons)
PhD UniSA
Mihail Popescu, MSc Bucharest, Romania PhD Emory, USA
Benjamin Thierry, BEng INP Grenoble, France MSc Montreal, Canada PhD
McGill, Canada
Catherine Whitby, BSc(Hons) UNSW PhD Melbourne
Vassili Yaminsky, DipSc PhD Moscow State, Russia
Massimiliano Zanin, BEng Trieste, Italy PhD Cagliari, Italy
Research Associates
Artem Borysenko, MSc Kharkiv State, Ukraine, PhD National Academy of
Sciences, Ukraine
Renate Fetzer, Dip Physics Ulm, Germany PhD Saarland, Germany
Sabina Gredelj, BEng(Hons) PhD UniSA
Tatiana Khmeleva, MEng Ural Polytechnic, Russia PhD UniSA
Marta Krasowska, MSc Maria Curie Sklodowska, Poland PhD Polish Academy
of Sciences, Poland
Mahaveer Kurkuri, BSc Karnatak, India MSc Mysore, India PhD Karnatak,
India
Vera Lockett, MSc Ural State, Russia PhD Russian Academy of Science,
Russia
Agnieszka Mierczynska-Vasilev, MSc PhD Lodz, Poland
Chi Ndi, BSc Buea, Cameroon MSc Leiden, The Netherlands PhD UniSA
Craig Priest, BAppSc(Hons) PhD UniSA
Rada Pushkarova, BEng Kiev, Ukraine PhD UniSA
Spomenka Simovic, BSc MSc Belgrade, Yugoslavia PhD UniSA
Surya Subianto, BAppSc(Hons) PhD QUT
Hui Tan, BEng Hunan, China DipChemEng, MSc Stellenbosch, South Africa
PhD Melbourne
Su Nee Tan, BSc Tulane, USA MSc Minnesota, USA PhD UniSA
Research Assistants
Louie del Castillo, BSc Unciano Medical College, Philippines
Maria Sinche Gonzalez, BEng(Hons) Universidad Nacional San Agustin, Peru
MSc Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Peru
Jingfang Zhou, BSc(Hons) Xiamen, China MSc Henan, China
Scientific Services
Scott Abbott, BAppSc(Hons) PhD UniSA
Chris Bassell, BAppSc BEng UniSA
John Denman, BTech BSc(Hons) Flinders PhD UniSA
Liping Ding, BEng(Hons) MEng Northeastern, China, PhD Queensland
Aleksandr Kaplun, BSc Kiev State, Ukraine
Philip Moore, Advanced Chem Plant
Operation Poole Tech College, UK, DipOH&S Management NSC, Adelaide
Ray Newell, BSc MSc UNSW PhD UniSA
Dennis Palms, MSc PhD Johannes-Gutenberg, Germany
Maria Provatas, BSc Flinders BAppSc UniSA
Keith Quast, BAppSc MAppSc SAIT
Andrew C Robinson, BAppSc SAIT
Eric Tavenner, BSc Missouri-Rolla, USA MSc Southwest Missouri State, USA
PhD Queensland
Tosha Tichy, DipAppSc UniSA
Daniel Weissmann, ScTechCert SAIT
Research and Technology Support
Darren Faulkner,
Fitting & Machining App, Adv Cert Engineering TAFE
Peter Gray, Electrical Mechanic App
TAFE
Craig Hackney, ScTechCert SAIT BBus UniSA
Marek Jasieniak, BSc(Hons) Cracow, Poland
Czeslaw Poprawski, DipMechEng TUW, Poland ScTechCert SAIT
Nicola Sleep, BTech BSc(Hons) Flinders
Philip Souter, Post-trade Certificate TAFE
Administration
Paul Byrne, BA(Hons) Adelaide
Julie Freytag
Kim Gauci
Tracy Greeneklee, Cert IV Business (Admin) TAFE Cert IV (Info Tech)
TAFE
Christina Koutlakis
Paul Luppino, AssDipAcc TAFE
Madelene Pierce, BA(Hons) Flinders
Kathryn Prohaska
Sandra Ray, GradDipMgmt MBA UniSA
Baden Smith, AssDipAdvGraphicDes TAFE
Maureen Terry
Paul Wotley, BSc(Hons) Adelaide
Kerry Zweck, Cert IV Business (Admin) Jobs Statewide