Archive for 'People in Science – Presenters'

Nick Bruer

[ By James Byrne on May 7, 2013 ]

Nick developed an interest in wine as a small boy while being dragged around the cellar doors of the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale by his parents in the 1970’s. He completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) at the University of Adelaide in 1985 and then joined the Australian Wine ... Continue Reading »

Louisa Rose

[ By James Byrne on May 1, 2013 ]

Louisa Rose grew up and was educated in Melbourne, Australia, spending weekends in the popular wine region Yarra Valley, helping to establish and run the family vineyard – The Rising Vineyard near Yarra Glen. After completing a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in physics, from Melbourne University, she relocated to ... Continue Reading »

Andrew Dickson

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on April 17, 2013 ]

Andrew Dickson is New Business Manager with Wind Prospect Pty Ltd. For eight years he has worked as a developer of large scale renewable energy projects, including the Snowtown Wind Farm north of Adelaide, which was commissioned in 2008. He has also developed a large scale solar thermal power station ... Continue Reading »

Jeremy Woolley

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Dr Jeremy Woolley has been working as a road safety researcher for over a decade and has been a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Automotive Safety Research (CASR) at the University of Adelaide for seven years. He has conducted research in many areas of road safety and is ... Continue Reading »

Jason Mazanov

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on March 8, 2013 ]

Dr. Jason Mazanov's PhD was in Mathematical/Health Psychology for the examination of nonlinear models in the context of adolescent smoking behaviour. In previous careers, he worked for the Australian Public Service (ATO/CSA and DVA), an Executive Management Consultant and Consultant Psychometrician. Jason's main research interest is looking at the causes and ... Continue Reading »

Robert Robergs

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Prof Robert Robergs' research is multifaceted, spanning topics that assess exercise performance, fatigue, muscle metabolism and sports nutrition. Prof Robergs is most noted for his work on the biochemistry of exercise-induced metabolic acidosis, the kinetics of recovery from metabolic acidosis, and exercise at altitude or during hypoxia. At Charles Sturt ... Continue Reading »

Andrew Baird

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on January 31, 2013 ]

Andrew Baird was born in Melbourne in 1956. As a kid, when asked what he wanted to do when he grew up, his answer would be: "An author or an artist." There was something compelling about the idea of living a life where the main concern was to create new ... Continue Reading »

Andrew Vogler

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on January 30, 2013 ]

Dr Andrew Vogler is an Accredited Sports Scientist (Physiology) and has a PhD in Exercise Physiology. Andrew has previously worked with elite Australian athletes at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and currently operates a sports physiology practice called Adelaide Human Performance. In his current role, Andrew provides advanced exercise ... Continue Reading »

Annette Edmondson

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on January 22, 2013 ]

Annette Edmondson is one of Australia’s brightest young cycling talents. Annette began cycling after she was identified by the SA Institute of Sport as having the physical attributes of a cyclist, and has since risen to be one of the stars of professional cycling. After winning multiple junior national and Oceania ... Continue Reading »

Peter Fairweather

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on October 30, 2012 ]

Peter Fairweather, Professor of Marine Biology at Flinders University, studies ecological processes in aquatic ecosystems, and the proper design, analysis and interpretation of environmental research.  He was President of the Ecological Society of Australia, 2005-2007, and seconded for 4½ years as advisor on marine parks to the South Australian environmental department. ... Continue Reading »

Marita Cheng

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on October 18, 2012 ]

While still a university student, Marita Cheng has demonstrated vision and leadership well beyond her years and is dedicated to encouraging young women to consider a career in engineering. Marita grew up in Cairns in far north Queensland with her single mother and older brother. After attaining an ENTER of 99.80 in her final year ... Continue Reading »

Carole Willman

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on October 2, 2012 ]

Carole Willman is motivated and passionate about food, particularly, cheese. She is an experienced cheesemaker and has studied cheesemaking at the Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture and Food Technology at Victoria University. She co-authored Australia’s most popular cheesemaking book ‘Home Cheesemaking: The Secrets of How to Make Your Own ... Continue Reading »

Paul Morris

[ By bryanharrell on September 14, 2012 ]

Paul Morris is the Executive Director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) the research arm of the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.  Paul has been a public servant working on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and resources for more than 25 years.  He ... Continue Reading »

David Kerr

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on September 4, 2012 ]

David Kerr has a background in visual arts, design and education. He has worked as a teacher, a practicing artist, an art lecturer, an arts administrator and an exhibition designer. He is currently the manager of design and development at the South Australian Museum; and he maintains his practice as ... Continue Reading »

Janice Lally

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Janice Lally has been a gallery director, curator, and independent consultant in the arts, crafts, design and cultural heritage sectors since 1990. Prior to that as a Master of Clinical Biochemistry (1980, Flinders University) she was a researcher in medical science for nearly 20 years. She was awarded a PhD ... Continue Reading »

Phil Mohr

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Dr Phil Mohr is a social psychologist who worked for 19 years at a psychology academic before joining CSIRO as a behavioural scientist in 2005. A key focus of his research at CSIRO is the analysis of how people reason and make decisions about health, products and lifestyle choices. He has a ... Continue Reading »

Vanessa Findlay

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on August 31, 2012 ]

Dr Vanessa Findlay, as the Australian Chief Plant Protection Officer, is the primary representative of, and an advisor to, the Australian Government on all matters relating to the management, maintenance and improvement of Australia’s plant health system. After completing an Honours degree in science at the University of Queensland and ... Continue Reading »

Chris Rapley

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on August 30, 2012 ]

Professor Chris Rapley CBE is a Professor of Climate Science at the University College London. From 1994 to 1998 he was Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, an international climate change study, and Director of the British Antarctic Survey from 1998 to 2007. During his time with the British ... Continue Reading »

Mark Tester

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on August 24, 2012 ]

Mark Tester is Professor of Plant Physiology in the School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide, based in the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics and is Director of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility. Mark led the establishment of the APPF, a $55m organisation that ... Continue Reading »

Russell Smith

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on August 1, 2012 ]

Cheese Consultant and Educator Deputy Chief Judge, Australian Grand Dairy Awards Russell Smith provides cheese sensory training and cheese education for retailers, consumers, chef and restaurateurs, and the list goes on. Through his role as owner/operator of Mart Delicatessen in Canberra for over 8 years, Russell’s experience of cheese and dairy products ... Continue Reading »

Gill Joschke

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on July 26, 2012 ]

Gill's background is in secondary teaching focussing on home economics, technology, food and hospitality, community health, textiles and design. She started a catering business called “Girls with nothing better to do” in 2010 specializing in small corporate functions and private entertaining.  Food workshops and demonstrations for students and special groups are ... Continue Reading »

Renate Nisi

[ By freya on July 6, 2012 ]

Renate Nisi was born in Germany in 1948 and has lived in Australia since 1971, mostly in Adelaide. She has worked as a high school teacher and teacher of ESL, and has spent 15 years co-running a shoemaking business and making bespoke footwear. In 2001 she graduated from Adelaide Central ... Continue Reading »

Niki Sperou

[ By freya ]

Niki Sperou has had a longstanding interest in the nexus between art, culture and science. She has been the artist in residence at the Department of Medical Biotechnology, Flinders University since 2006. Her artwork is primarily to do with human identity and the impact recent technological advancements have had upon ... Continue Reading »

Cheryl Hutchens

[ By freya ]

Cheryl Hutchens is an Adelaide based textile artist with an interest in biology and the human condition. She has always had a passion for making with fabric and stitch and after receiving a Bachelor of Visual Art from the South Australian School of Art in 1999 she studied dressmaking at ... Continue Reading »

Beth Evans

[ By freya on July 5, 2012 ]

Beth Evans is a visual artist with a background as a chiropractor and osteopath. Working from the Tannery Print Studio in Adelaide, Beth creates artwork that takes its inspiration from her former career as a health professional. Her work includes artists books, printmaking and small-scale bronze sculpture. She created her first ... Continue Reading »

Justin Oakley

[ By freya on June 26, 2012 ]

Associate Professor Justin Oakley BA, PhD (Philosophy) is Director of the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics. He is the author of Morality and the Emotions (Routledge, 1993), and Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles (with Dean Cocking) (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and is editor of Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: ... Continue Reading »

Gina Perry

[ By freya ]

Gina Perry is an Australian psychologist, writer and broadcaster. Her feature articles, columns and short fiction have been published in many of Australia’s leading newspapers and literary magazines. Gina's ABC Radio National documentary about obedience experiments, 'Beyond the Shock Machine', won the Silver World Medal for a history ... Continue Reading »

Ian MacLeod

[ By freya on June 22, 2012 ]

Dr Ian MacLeod is Executive Director of Fremantle Museums and Maritime Heritage. Ian has been with the Western Australian Museum since 1978. From a background of specialising in materials conservation and the decay of materials ancient and modern, Ian has applied his electrochemical background to solving complex problems association with preservation of ... Continue Reading »

Alice Potter

[ By freya on June 18, 2012 ]

South Australian contemporary jeweller Alice Potter finished her Bachelor of Visual Communications at UniSA in 2004, and completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts at TAFE SA; Adelaide Centre for the Arts in 2006. She currently holds the title of Program Manager in the Metal Design Studio at the internationally ... Continue Reading »

Samantha Moore

[ By freya ]

Samantha Moore is a maker of animated documentaries with an interest in representing internal brain states through animation.  Originally studying fine art and English literature at Exeter University she continued her study at Central Saint Martins School of Art in fine art film. Her first film was made using oil on ... Continue Reading »

Martin Crowe

[ By freya on June 5, 2012 ]

Martin Crowe is a retired meteorologist with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), where he worked for over 30 years. As well as working out of the BoM’s offices in Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra, Martin has been stationed in Antarctica with the Australian Antarctic Division. As part of this assignment, he ... Continue Reading »

John Kirkwood

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

John Kirkwood is a marine biologist and ecologist from the University of Queensland. John was fortunate enough to start his career as a marine biologist on board Australia’s first dedicated Antarctic marine science expedition. Following from that opportunity, John has spent 30 years in marine and polar research. John has spent ... Continue Reading »

Jim Jago

[ By freya ]

Associate Professor Jim Jago is a geologist and palaeontologist from the University of South Australia. Over a career of nearly 40 years Jim has studied southern Australian geology extensively, including the Kanmantoo region and Port Gawler, as well as the Cambrian period which extends from around 540 million years ago ... Continue Reading »

Emily Jateff

[ By freya on June 4, 2012 ]

Emily Jateff is a Curator at the South Australian Maritime Museum in Port Adelaide. She has worked in universities, private industry and research organisations in Australia and the United States. Emily is an underwater archaeologist and specialist in collections management for archaeological objects. She also holds an adjunct position with ... Continue Reading »

Michelle McCann

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on May 18, 2012 ]

In her most recent position, Dr McCann was the CEO of Spark Solar Australia. Spark is an Australian company seed-funded by a group of German experts in the photovoltaic field with the mission of raising funds to establish a PV manufacturing company in Australia. She worked in the photovoltaic group at the University of Konstanz in Germany, ... Continue Reading »

Alexandra de Blas

[ By freya on May 8, 2012 ]

Alexandra de Blas is the principal of de Blas Communications, a business specialising in social and environmental sustainability. Alexandra is an award winning environmental & science communicator with more than twenty years media experience, including eight as the voice of Earthbeat, ABC Radio National’s specialist environment program. She has received a number of ... Continue Reading »

Tony Owen

[ By freya on May 4, 2012 ]

Tony Owen is a Professor of Energy Economics in the International Energy Policy Institute, UCL Australia. Previously, he was Academic Director of the UCL School of Energy and Resources, Adelaide, Australia, and held the Santos Chair in Energy Resources. Prior to that, he was Professor of Energy Economics in the ... Continue Reading »

Valerie Sitters

[ By freya on April 11, 2012 ]

Valerie Sitters has worked at the State Library of South Australia for many years and over the last 25 has spoken to many groups of all ages about the Library’s treasures and about Australian and Antarctic exploration. In the lead up to 2002 and during that year she was involved in ... Continue Reading »

Nick Lomb

[ By freya on April 10, 2012 ]

After an education that included a year at Woodville Primary School in Adelaide and a PhD from Sydney University, Nick Lomb joined Sydney Observatory in 1979. As Curator of Astronomy he has organised numerous exhibitions at the Observatory and at the Powerhouse Museum with the last one being From Earth ... Continue Reading »

Revital Cohen

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on April 4, 2012 ]

Revital Cohen is a designer who develops critical objects and provocative scenarios exploring the juxtaposition of the natural with the artificial. Her work spans across various mediums and includes collaborations with scientists, bioethicists, animal breeders and physicians. As a research associate within the Design Interactions department at the Royal College ... Continue Reading »

Richard Pell

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Richard Pell is an artist working at the intersections of science, engineering and culture. He is the founder of the Center for PostNatural History (CPNH), a public outreach centre dedicated to the intersection of culture, nature and biotechnology, which collects and exhibits genetically engineered life-forms. The postnatural refers to the life ... Continue Reading »

Deborah Kelly

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Deborah Kelly is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based artist whose works have been shown in streets, skies and galleries around Australia, in the Singapore and Venice Biennales, and elsewhere. Her award-winning collaborative artwork with Tina Fiveash, Hey, hetero! has been shown in public sites from Sydney to Glasgow, and is taught in ... Continue Reading »

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist, designer and writer, using the medium of design to examine the social, ethical and cultural implications of emerging technology and science. Through intensive research into synthetic biology, Daisy is exploring the role of design in a Biotech Revolution. Now Design Fellow on Synthetic Aesthetics, an ... Continue Reading »

Dr Melinda Rackham

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Dr Melinda Rackham is a multi award-winning Network Artist, a widely published writer and Adjunct Professor at the RMIT School of Media and Communications. She has been instrumental in the exhibition of, and dialogue surrounding, networked and distributed art practices in Australia and beyond. Melinda has extensive experience in producing critically ... Continue Reading »

Robert Habel and Cole Larsen

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

In the picture: Robert Habel (L) and Cole Larsen (R) Filmmaker Cole Larsen and painter Robert Habel met in Launceston, Tasmania in the early 1980s. They connected over a shared love of athletics, art, film, punk music and the Collingwood Football Club. They moved to South Australia in December 1988, where ... Continue Reading »

Sam Songailo

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on April 3, 2012 ]

Acrylic and screen print on board. 5.12m x 2.28m x 2.85m Artist's Synopsis This work is an extension of my painting practice. The edge of the canvas is expanded to create an all-encompassing environment. The painting becomes a pattern which is applied to the walls, floor and ceiling. The lighting brings out ... Continue Reading »

Tim Schork (MESNE Design Studio)

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Pricking 1.2 Digital/multi media consisting of an interactive multi-touch table (wood) and custom developed design software. Additional credits: Paul Nicholas, Ian Maxwell and Indae Hwang. Artist's Synopsis Louis Kahn famously asked the brick what it wants to become, with the brick responding, ‘an arch’. This project poses the same question to lace. Pricking is ... Continue Reading »

Kerrie Poliness

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Blue Wall Drawing #1 under construction Image courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery Artist's Synopsis The work at RiAus is a prototype for whoosh: a wall drawing inspired by sound, motion, wave dynamics and time; a set of instructions that describes how to construct infinite variations of a geometric free-form (gestural) wave, within a defined ... Continue Reading »

Natalie McLeod

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova ]

Membrane Layer from the Natural Produce Series 2011 Disperse dyes digitally printed on polyester chiffon. 95cm x 210cm. With thanks to Huntech, Upper Hutt and Massey University, Wellington NZ. Artist's Synopsis Digital textile printing technology has not only revolutionized how printed textiles can be produced, it has also engendered an alternative design approach, ... Continue Reading »

Jon McCormack

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on April 2, 2012 ]

Flicker 2010 Generative software program, computer, monitor. Duration 2:20 minutes. Developed in collaboration with Oliver Brown. Artist's Synopsis I work across the disciplines of art and science. I am interested in developing new modes of creative expression through computation, expression that, in the spirit of Gyorgy Kepes, leads to a “deeper and richer ... Continue Reading »