Be guided by Griffith’s leading environmental and scientific specialists
The school's research and teaching staff are acknowledged as world industry leaders, working across planning, environmental disciplines and science. This broad-based expertise ensures an overriding enterprise and initiative in study program development and delivery.
Academic staff
Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
- Associate Professor Eric Cavalcanti (Academic Lead)
- Dr Travis Baker
- Dr Diego Bernal Garcia
- Dr Nathan Garland
- Dr Farzad Ghafari Jouneghani
- Associate Professor Tim Gould
- Professor Evan Gray
- Dr David Harman
- Mr Jason Hay
- Dr Ryan Heneghan
- Dr Owen Jepps
- Dr Tsendsuren Khurelbaatar
- Dr Ardra Kooderi Suresh
- Professor Igor Litvinyuk
- Dr Patrick Marchisella
- Mr James McBroom
- Dr Lucas Ostrowski
- Dr Emanuele Polino
- Dr Juan Carlos Ponce Campuzano
- Professor Geoff Pryde
- Dr Melanie Roberts
- Dr Drew Sheppard
- Dr Sergei Slussarenko
- Dr Nora Tischler
- Professor Joan Vaccaro
- Dr Sarah Walden
- Professor Howard Wiseman
- Dr Maryam Zeinolabedini Rezaabad
Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution
- Associate Professor Ali Chauvenet (Academic Lead)
- Dr Dan Bock
- Associate Professor Jeremy Brownlie
- Professor Adam Brumm
- Professor Samantha Capon
- Associate Professor Guy Castley
- Dr Mark de Bruyn
- Dr Rebekah Grieger
- Michelle Hobbs
- Dr Natalie Jones
- Professor Mark Kennard
- Dr Douglas Kerlin
- Professor David Lambert
- Associate Professor Michelle Langley
- Professor Julien Louys
- Associate Professor Carney Matheson
- Dr Marcus Michelangeli
- Dr Clare Morrison
- Dr Paul Oliver
- Professor Catherine Pickering
- Professor Fran Sheldon
- Dr Michelle Ward
Biomedical
- Professor Alejandro Lopez (Academic Lead)
- Professor Katherine Andrews
- Distinguished Professor Vicky Avery
- Dr Dan Nana Osei Bonsu
- Dr Stefanie Buchholz
- Dr Mo Chen
- Dr Shuxiong Chen
- Dr Ian Cock
- Dr Alex Cristino
- Associate Professor Rohan Davis
- Dr Mahendiran Dharmasivam
- Dr Jenny Di Trapani
- Associate Professor Yun Feng
- Dr Gill Fisher
- Dr Yady Senayda Garcia Castillo
- Dr Jean Giacomotto
- Dr Tony Greene
- Dr Christopher Hart
- Associate Professor Thomas Haselhorst
- Dr David Hilko
- Associate Professor Todd Houston
- Associate Professor Deanne Hryciw
- Dr Jamila Iqbal
- Dr Abolfazl Jangholi
- Dr Danielle Kamato
- Dr Busra Kaya
- Dr Jack Klose
- Professor Daniel Kolarich
- Dr Miaomiao Liu
- Associate Professor Christopher Love
- Dr Linlin Ma
- Dr Alpesh Malde
- Professor George Mellick
- Professor Sally-Ann Poulsen
- Professor Chamindie Punyadeera
- Professor Bernd Rehm
- Professor Des Richardson
- Dr Tayner Rodriguez Garzon
- Associate Professor Frank Sainsbury
- Dr Gayathri Sam
- Associate Professor Horst Joachim Schirra
- Dr Wayne Schroder
- Dr Audra Shadforth
- Associate Professor Tina Skinner-Adams
- Dr Louise Sternicki
- Dr Brett Stringer
- Dr Alex Sykes
- Dr Melissa Sykes
- Professor Hang Ta
- Professor Joe Tiralongo
- Associate Professor Kathryn Tonissen
- Dr Chameera Weeramange
- Dr Michael Weible
- Alison White
- Dr Xi Zhang
- Dr Bilal Zulfiqar
Environmental Sustainability and Management
- Associate Professor Shahla Hosseini Bai (Academic Lead)
- Associate Professor Maria Fernanda Adame
- Dr Danelle Agnew
- Dr Fawad Ali
- Dr Suhad Al-Khafaji
- Dr Christopher Ambrey
- Dr Ido Bar
- Dr Anna Berka
- Associate Professor Andrew Brooks
- Professor Michele Burford
- Associate Professor Georgette Leah Burns
- Dr Orpheus Butler
- Dr Moutoshi Chakraborty
- Distinguished Professor Chengrong Chen
- Dr Yunying Fang
- Dr Michael Farrar
- Dr Hannah Franklin
- Dr William Goulding
- Dr Wade Hadwen
- Dr Heather Keith
- Dr Justine Kemp
- Dr Zhongming Lan
- Dr Xiangyu Liu
- Dr Jing Lu
- Associate Professor Brian McIntosh
- Associate Professor Johanna Nalau
- Dr Christopher Ndehedehe
- Dr Peta Neale
- Dr Chris Pratt
- Dr Mehran Rezaei Rashti
- Dr Prabhakaran Thanjavur Sambasivam
- Dr Rahat Shabir
- Associate Professor Jim Smart
- Dr Jackson Stockbridge
- Associate Professor Helen Stratton
- Dr Andres Felipe Suarez Castro
- Professor Stephen Trueman
- Dr Rachele Wilson
- Professor Zhihong Xu
- Dr Zhenzhen Yan
- Dr Shima Ziajahromi
Marine Science
- Professor Kylie Pitt (Academic Lead)
- Professor Susan Bengtson Nash
- Associate Professor Will Bennett
- Professor Anthony Carroll
- Professor Rod Connolly
- Dr Jasper De Bie
- Dr Joseph Di Battista
- Professor Guillermo Diaz-Pulido
- Dr Nic Doriean
- Dr Ryan Dunn
- Dr Lukas Folkman
- Professor Chris Frid
- Dr Laura Griffiths
- Dr Cesar Herrera Acosta
- Dr Caitie Kuempel
- Dr Chantal Lanctot
- Dr Raphael Mayaud
- Dr Steve Melvin
- Dr Olaf Meynecke
- Dr Vincent Raoult
- Dr Marina Richardson
- Dr Michael Sievers
- Dr Darrell Strauss
- Dr Jason van de Merwe
- Dr Guilherme Vieira da Silva
Materials and Analytical Chemistry
- Professor Yulin Zhong (Academic Lead)
- Associate Professor Hongjie An
- Dr Munkhbayar Batmunkh
- Dr James Chapman
- Dr Dechao Chen
- Professor Sarah Cresswell
- Dr Venkata Durga Bapayya Chowdary Dasireddy
- Dr Huai Qin Fu
- Dr William Gee
- Dr Sina Jamali
- Dr Steffen Jeschke
- Professor Richard John
- Dr Tak Kim
- Associate Professor Porun Liu
- Professor Wendy Loughlin
- Dr Pradeep Murthy
- Dr Shern Tee
- Dr Liang Wang
- Professor Yun Wang
- Dr William Wen
- Professor Karen Wilson
- Dr Zhenzhen Wu
- Dr Feifei Zhang
- Dr Lei Zhang
- Dr Ming Zhou
HDR Teaching Fellows
- Khai Bordon
- Jordan Holdorf
- Llewyn Randall
- Matilda Houston
- Tewuhibo Sitotaw Mengistie
- Amy McEwen
- Eric Campbell
- Mark Donaldson
- Laiba Saleem
- Cassidy Winter
- Tyler Hofmann
- Joshua Whiley
- Anais Fabre
- Meg Walker
- Rameesha Tanveer
- Anuradhi Jayasinghe
- Lucas Gimenez
Professional staff
Administration
- Hayley Wells - School Manager (Administration Lead)
- Leah Aristidis - Administration Officer, Community Engagement
- Ryan Calder - Centre Coordinator, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution
- Leanne Carpenter - Academic Support Officer
- Lisa Cunningham - Program Support Officer
- Nile de Jonge - Administration Officer
- Jennifer Finigan - Administrative Support Officer
- Nadine Painter - Institute Manager, Australian Rivers Institute
- Jo Papas - Executive Officer
- Dian Riseley - Institute Manager, Griffith Institute for Human and Environmental Resilience
- Andrea Ryan - Program Support Officer
- Kylie Tarrant - Academic Support Officer
- Leah Winslow - Administrative Support Officer
Research
- Dr Arthur Barraza - Research Assistant
- Ann Chuang - Senior Research Assistant
- Melody Christie - Senior Support Officer
- Joyosmita Das - Research Assistant
- Zhao Deng - Research Assistant
- Stephen Faggotter - Senior Research Assistant
- Jasmine Hall - Senior Research Assistant
- Jeremy Harte - Research Assistant
- Olivia Hurren - Research Assistant
- Dora Ling - Research Assistant
- Aaron Lock - Senior Research Assistant
- Zainab Mahdi - Research Assistant
- Alison McNamara - Senior Research Assistant
- Nikolina Nenadic - Research Assistant
- Justin Nicholls - Research Project Manager
- Elissa O'Malley - Research Assistant
- Vera Richardson - Senior Research Assistant
- Daniel Russell - Research Assistant
- Sachita Shrestha - Senior Research Assistant
- John Spencer - Senior Research Assistant
- Nuwan Tharanga Karunathilaka Wicramasingha Arachchilage - Clinical Coordinator
- Jia Xu - Research Assistant
Technical
- Dr David Camp – Technical Manager (Technical Lead)
- Helena Alberts - Laboratory Attendant
- Rad Bak – Senior Scientific Officer
- Jean Barcelon - Senior Research Assistant
- Tim Biddle – Scientific Officer
- Anthony Boyle – Laboratory Manager (Chemistry and Materials Sciences)
- Dr Sarah Brookes – Senior Technical Officer (Chemistry and Materials Sciences)
- Scott Byrnes – Senior Scientific Officer
- James Cameron – Scientific Officer
- Nick Dootson - Research Assistant
- Craig Edwards - Technical Manager (Physics)
- Kaylah Higgins – Scientific Assistant
- Nicole Hogg – Manager/Operator (DNA Sequencing)
- Russell Jarrott - Senior Technical Officer (Biosciences)
- Sarah Keselj Davies - Scientific Officer
- Alicia Kim – Scientific Officer
- Heidi Lehmann - Graduate Technical Officer
- Emily Looke – Scientific Officer
- Thu Nguyen - Scientific Officer
- Kurtis Nisbet – Scientific Officer
- Dr Leisa Osborne – Senior Scientific Officer
- Alex Pepper - Technical Manager (Physics)
- Perry Plummer – Technical Manager (Biosciences)
- Carolyn Polson – Technical Manager (Environmental Sciences)
- Dr Jagadish Roy - Senior Technical Officer
- Dr Ashlee Shipham – Scientific Officer
- Ryan Stewart – Technical Manager (Gold Coast)
- Alan White – Technical and Core Facility Manager (Chemistry)
Emeritus Professors
- Professor Emeritus Angela Arthington
- Professor Emeritus Roger Braddock
- Professor Emeritus Lex Brown
- Professor Emeritus Ralf Buckley
- Professor Emeritus David Burch
- Professor Emeritus Paul Burton
- Professor Emeritus Gillian Bushell
- Professor Emeritus Carla Catterall
- Professor Emeritus Denis Crane
- Professor Emeritus Pat Dale
- Professor Emeritus John Dobson
- Professor Emeritus Dick Drew
- Professor Emeritus Roderick Drew
- Professor Emeritus Brian Fry
- Professor Emeritus Darryl Hawker
- Professor Emeritus Peter Healy
- Professor Emeritus Bill Hogarth
- Professor Emeritus Roger Holmes
- Professor Emeritus Greg Hope
- Professor Emeritus Jane Hughes
- Professor Emeritus Ian Jenkins
- Professor Emeritus Darryl Jones
- Professor Emeritus Roger Kitching
- Professor Emeritus Darryl Low Choy
- Professor Emeritus Ian Lowe
- Professor Emeritus Hamish McCallum
- Professor Emeritus Grant McTainsh
- Professor Emeritus Jon Olley
- Professor Emeritus David Pegg
- Professor Emeritus Ronald Quinn
- Professor Emeritus Roy Rickson
- Professor Emeritus Calvin Rose
- Professor Emeritus Nigel Stork
- Professor Emeritus Rodger Tomlinson
- Professor Emeritus Huijun Zhao
Adjunct and honorary staff
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Joanna Aldridge
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Jenny Allen
- Adjunct Associate Professor Yuri Anissimov
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Louise Ashton
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Mark Bailey
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Duan Biggs
- Adjunct Professor Nicole Boivin
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Chris Boulton
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Michelle Boyle
- Adjunct Associate Professor Chris Brown
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Sioux Campbell
- Adjunct Research Fellow Chris Cannizzaro
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Jim Carter
- Adjunct Associate Professor Sonya Clegg
- Adjunct Associate Professor Janet Chaseling
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Peter Corkeron
- Adjunct Professor Simon Costanzo
- Adjunct Associate Professor Roger Cropp
- Adjunct Associate Professor Peter Culshaw
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr James Daley
- Adjunct Associate Professor Peter Davey
- Adjunct Research Fellow Richard Donaghey
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Mengyang Dong
- Adjunct Professor Christian Engwerda
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Dr Maryam Esfandbod
- Adjunct Associate Professor Alex Forrest
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Amanda Freeman
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr James Furse
- Adjunct Professor Albert Gabric
- Adjunct Professor Adeflor Garcia
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Ali Golshani
- Honorary Professor Hans Gottlieb
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Emma Greenhalgh
- Adjunct Lecturer Chris Grigg
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Laura Grogan
- Adjunct Professor John Hay
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Md. Hafiz Hosen
- Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Howes
- Adjunct Professor Bruce James
- Adjunct Associate Professor Peter Johnston
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Asir Kaya
- Adjunct Associate Professor Derek Kennedy
- Adjunct Professor Andrew Knight
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Michal Krawczyk
- Adjunct Professor Paul Lawrence
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Serena Lee
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Tom Lewis
- Adjunct Associate Professor Wouter Lincklaen Arriens
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Sebastian Lopez-Marcano
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Jeremy Mansfield OAM
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Carmel McDougall
- Adjunct Lecturer Dr Bill Metcalf
- Adjunct Associate Professor John Minnery
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Paulette Oldfield
- Adjunct Research Fellow Niloofar Ordou
- Adjunct Associate Professor Daniela Ottmann
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Alison Peel
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Luis Perez-Mora
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Dr Tim Pietsch
- Adjunct Research Fellow Erik Prochazka
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Jemma Purandare
- Adjunct Associate Professor Allison Rifai
- Adjunct Professor Robert Sang
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Marcello Sano
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Richard Sharpe
- Adjunct Research Fellow Julia Smith
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer Dr Tim Stevens
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Marisa Stone
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Iman Tahmasbian
- Adjunct Associate Professor Andre Taylor
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Jaramar Villarreal Rosas
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Richard Walding
- Adjunct Professor Helen Wallace
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer Dr Jan Warnken
- Adjunct Associate Professor Jeremy Watherston
- Adjunct Associate Professor Dianne Watters
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Courtney Waugh
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Matthew Webb
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Liesbeth Weijs
- Adjunct Associate Professor David Welsh
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer Dr Urs Wermuth
- Adjunct Professor Linzi Wilson-Wilde
- Adjunct Associate Professor Jon Womersley
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Yiping Yan
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Yun Yang
- Adjunct Lecturer Dr Jacinta Zalucki
- Adjunct Lecturer Dr Manyun Zhang
- Adjunct Professor Shanqing Zhang