Staff
Director
Laureate Professor John Ralston, BSc(Hons) MSc DipEd PhD Melbourne DIC London, UK,
AO FAA FTSE
Deputy Director
Professor Hans Griesser, DipChem SciTeachingCert PhD ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Associate Director: Minerals
Professor Jonas Addai-Mensah, BEng(Hons) UST, Ghana MSc TIIT, Israel PhD Queensland
Associate Director: Nanomedicine
Professor Clive Prestidge, BSc(Hons) Loughborough, UK PhD Bristol, UK
Associate Director: Physical Chemistry of Colloids and Nanostructures
Professor Thomas Nann, MSc (Chemistry) PhD Freiburg, Germany
Institute Manager
Terry Wilks, BSc(Hons) MSc PhD Newcastle, UK
Research Professors
Namita Roy Choudhury, BSc(Hons) BTech MTech(Hons) Calcutta, India PhD
Kharagpur, India
Bill Skinner, BSc Melbourne BAppSc PhD RMIT
Dayang Wang, BEng PhD Jilin University, China
Associate Research Professors
David Beattie, BSc(Hons) PhD Edinburgh, UK
Naba Dutta, BSc(Hons) BTech Calcutta, India PhD Kharagpur, India
Daniel Fornasiero, Maitre es Science Grenoble, France PhD Adelaide
Rossen Sedev, MSc Sofia, Bulgaria PhD Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Benjamin Thierry, BEng INP Grenoble, France MSc Montreal, Canada PhD
McGill, Canada
Senior Research Fellows
Jason Connor, BAppSc(Hons) Central Queensland PhD UniSA
Sarah Harmer, BAppSc(Hons) PhD UniSA
Mihail Popescu, MSc Bucharest, Romania PhD Emory, USA
Catherine Whitby, BSc(Hons) UNSW PhD Melbourne
Massimiliano Zanin, BEng Trieste, Italy PhD Cagliari, Italy
Research Fellows
Bryan Coad (joint Wark/Mawson), BSc Simon Fraser, Canada PhD British
Columbia, Canada
Rick Fabretto, BSc(Hons) Flinders BEd PhD UniSA
Marta Krasowska, MSc Maria Curie Sklodowska, Poland PhD Polish Academy
of Sciences, Poland
Agnieszka Mierczynska-Vasilev, MSc PhD Lodz, Poland
Craig Priest, BAppSc(Hons) PhD UniSA
Spomenka Simovic, BSc MSc Belgrade, Yugoslavia PhD UniSA
Research Associates
Lauren Clements,
BSc(Hons)
Lorena Dieguez, Grad Dip Santiago de Compostela, Spain MSc Barcelona,
Spain
Xiaokong Liu, BSc PhD Jilin University, China
Ataollah Nosrati, BSc Petroleum University of Technology, Iran MSc Tarbiat
Modarres, Iran PhD UniSA
Ravindra Potrekar, MSc Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada, India PhD National
Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
Shasha Rao, BAdmin China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing, China
Celine Richard, MSc UPMC, France PhD LPS ENS, France
Angel Tan, BPharm(Hons) PhD UniSA
Danfeng Xu, BSc Northeastern, China MSc Tianjin, China
PhD UniSA
Haolan Xu, BSc Nanjing University of Technology, China PhD Chinese Academy
of Sciences Shanghai, China
Jingfang Zhou, BSc(Hons) Xiamen,
PR China MSc Henan, PR China PhD UniSA
Scientific Services
Scott Abbott, BAppSc(Hons) PhD UniSA
Chris Bassell, BAppSc BEng UniSA
Dipankar Chugh, BTech IIT Guwahati, India MSc Calgary, Canada
John Denman, BTech BSc(Hons) Flinders PhD UniSA
Jeremy Deverell, BSc(Hons)
PhD Tasmania
Simon Doe, BEng Nottingham, UK DipWeldingEng TWI, UK GradCertTechComm
Melbourne
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
Luke Parkinson, BSc Adelaide,
BSc(Hons) Queensland PhD UniSA
Keith Quast, BAppSc MAppSc SAIT
Andrew C Robinson, BAppSc SAIT Cert IV Workplace Training TAFE DipOH&S TAFE
Zofia Swierczek, MSc AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Daniel Weissmann, ScTechCert SAIT
Research and Technology Support
Michael Bottroff, Cert IV Info Tech TAFE
Louie Del Castillo, BSc Unciano Medical College, Philippines
Darren Faulkner,
Fitting & Machining App, Adv Cert Engineering TAFE
Stefani Griesser, BA Iowa, USA GradDipEd(Sec) Monash BBioTech(Medical &
Applied) Charles Sturt
Marek Jasieniak, BSc(Hons) Cracow, Poland
Tom Macdonald, BSc(Hons) Flinders
Czeslaw Poprawski, DipMechEng TUW, Poland ScTechCert SAIT
Philip Souter, Post-trade Certificate TAFE
Administration
Teresa Duncan,
Cert III Business (Admin) TAFE
Julie Freytag
Tracy Greeneklee, Cert IV Business (Admin) TAFE Cert IV Info Tech
TAFE DipBusAdmin TAFE
Craig Hackney, ScTechCert SAIT BBus UniSA
Louise Jennings
Christina Koutlakis
Paul Luppino, AssDipAcc TAFE
Madelene Pierce, BA(Hons) Flinders
Kathryn Prohaska
Sandra Ray, GradDipMgmt MBA UniSA
Maureen Terry
Paul Wotley, BSc(Hons) Adelaide