Alumni
Alumni Profile | Dr Marcia Amir Abdollahian
14 November 2022
Dr Marcia Amir Abdollahian is a Water Resources Specialist at WaterNSW. As a chartered engineer, she develops tools to manage rivers and dams while providing subject matter expertise in challenging water management issues such as floods and droughts. Read More...
Alumni Profile | Dr Roman Weh
20 September 2022
Dr Roman Weh is a Process Engineer at Hatch, a global multidisciplinary management, engineering and development consultancy. He is also the first minted PhD alumni of the Future Energy Exports Cooperative Research Centre (FEnEx CRC) and the University of Western Australia. Read More...
Alumni Profile | Dr Thomas Ting
29 July 2022
Dr Thomas Ting is an entrepreneur, business leader, engineer, and researcher who has been involved with projects and enterprises internationally. He is the Deputy Director-Commercialisation in the newly formed Enterprise Hub at the University of South Australia and Director of UniSA Ventures and MPI Biotech. Read More...
Alumni Profile | Professor Michael Stewardson
21 June 2022
Professor Michael Stewardson is the interim CEO of the recently established One Basin CRC, which was one of the latest CRCs to be funded in Round 23 of the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program. He is a leader in water research who works at the coalface of industry and government agencies. His journey as an industry-engaged researcher began with his PhD also as part of the CRC Program. Read More...
Alumni Profile | Associate Professor Kathy Evans
24 May 2022
Associate Professor Kathy Evans is an accomplished agricultural scientist and industry-research trailblazer who has grown the innovative capability of farms in Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and other regions. She is currently Director of TASAg Innovation Hub and formerly Head of Research at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tasmania. After an undergraduate degree Read More...
Alumni Profile | Dr Nikki Dumbrell
29 April 2022
Dr Nikki Dumbrell is an environmental and natural resource economist who is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with CSIRO. Read More...
Dr Mayeda Rashid
1 April 2022
Mayeda Rashid is a ‘badass researcher’. These are not her words, but the words of her PhD project participants: schoolchildren in Bangladesh who were deeply involved in the design of her research in disaster risk reduction. Read More...
Alumni Profile | Dr Luigi Vandi
11 February 2022
Luigi Vandi neatly fits the archetype of the academic entrepreneur. He is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland and completed his PhD in the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program. Before his PhD, Luigi lived in Europe. He obtained a master’s degree in Materials Science from the Read More...
Alumni Profile | Dr Jessica Breadsell
15 December 2021
‘I had always said that I was never going to do a PhD, and then I did one,’ chuckled Dr Jessica Breadsell, Industry PhD Program Coordinator at RACE for 2030 CRC. ‘I thought of PhDs as sitting in a library, reading lots of books, and being super smart. Whereas I’m a very people person – Read More...
Alumni Profile | Dr. Michele Akeroyd
29 November 2021
program. “What really stood out and attracted me were the partnerships, the collaboration, and the applied science.” Read More...