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Our research
We research across a range of natural science disciplines
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Professor Nathan Hart
Nathan is a world leader in comparative sensory biology and leads the Neurobiology Lab at Macquarie University. His research on ‘early’ vertebrates such as lampreys and sharks has helped to uncover the origin and evolution of vertebrate colour vision. His studies on the bird retina have enabled cruc...
School executives
Dr Ian Jamie, Deputy Director of Education
Associate Professor Katherine Dafforn, Director of Research
Professor Paul Haynes, Director of Research Training
Sharyon O'Donnell, School Operations Manager
Academic staff
Research staff
Daniel Charbonneau
Sinan Özaydin
Honorary staff
Professional staff
Vanessa Almendrades, Communications Specialist
Erin Cheng, Academic Administrator
Iniga George, Senior Research Officer
Sarah Henry, Department Manager
Jenny-Lee Heylen, Chief Operating Officer, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology
Sally-Ann Hodgekiss, Reporting and Communications Manager, CCFS GEMOC
Michelle Kang, Academic Administrator
Caitlin Kordis, Academic Administrator
Sheley Kurniawan, Finance and Staff Administrator
Lisa Laletina, Administration Assistant
Shin Yoong Lim, Administrative Assistant
Dr Amanda Mackie, Biocurator
Julian May, Administration Assistant
Lisa Moore, BioCyc Curator
Sharyon O'Donnell, School Operations Manager
Mary O'Malley, Communications Specialist
Harriet O'Sullivan, Administration Assistant
Veronica Peralta, Finance and Staff Administrator
Dr Robyn Peterson, Senior Research Officer
Mark Rego, Department Manager
Emma Wang, Administration Assistant
Higher degree research students
| Student name | Degree |
|---|---|
| Alfonso Aceves Aparicio | PhD |
| Nusrat Afrin | MRes |
| Shriya Agarwal | PhD |
| Danelle Agnew | PhD |
| Rayan Al omar | PhD |
| Bethany Alexander | PhD |
| Matthew Alfonzetti | MRes |
| Jarrod Algie | MRes |
| Zeshan Ali | MRes |
| Halimulati Ananuer | PhD |
| Amir Mohammad Arash | PhD |
| Ruby Ardren | PhD |
| Nicolette Armansin | PhD |
| Wilbur Ashley | PhD |
| Jeremy Asimus | MRes |
| Payal Barua | PhD |
| Sahareh Bashiribod | MRes |
| Anthony Benn | MRes |
| Flavia Berlinghieri | PhD Cotutelle |
| Georgina Binns | PhD |
| Virginia Brunton | PhD |
| Marti Burcet Rodriguez | PhD |
| Patrick Burke | PhD |
| Bridget Campbell | PhD |
| Bronwyn Campbell | PhD |
| Yueying Cao | PhD |
| Daniele Carlesso | PhD |
| Alexander Carpenter | PhD |
| Benjamin Carter | PhD |
| Natalie Caulfield | PhD |
| TomaševicIvana Cavlina | PhD |
| Renee Cawthorne | MRes |
| Prapti Chakraborty | MRes |
| Jariya Chanachai | MRes |
| Justine Channing | PhD |
| Aditi Chatterjee | MRes |
| The Huong Chau | MRes |
| Anastasia Chernykh | PhD |
| Shubham Sohanlal Chhajed | PhD |
| Heung Ying Janet Chik | PhD Cotutelle |
| Christine Chivas | PhD |
| Hannah Hyunah Cho | PhD |
| Joel Chubb | PhD |
| Ariningsun Cinantya | PhD |
| Joanna Clarke | PhD |
| Gemma Clifton | PhD |
| Thomas Collier | PhD |
| Kellie Cook | PhD |
| Patrick Cooke | PhD |
| Nicole Cormier | PhD |
| Michael Cowled | PhD |
| Patrick da Roza | PhD |
| Sara da Silva Lucas Sousa Vicente | PhD Cotutelle |
| Dayanitha Damodaran | PhD |
| Sourav Das | PhD |
| Alexandra Davidson | PhD |
| Barbara Davis | MRes |
| Kaytlyn Davis | PhD |
| Nicholas Debono | PhD |
| Ananyaa Deepak | MRes |
| Natasha Delgado | PhD |
| Wijayamuni Dewage Sanjaya Chathuranga Dharmarathne | PhD |
| Wenjing Ding | PhD |
| Priya Dipta | PhD |
| Kate Dodds | PhD |
| Garima Dubey | MRes |
| Thibault Dubois | PhD Cotutelle |
| Elisha Duxbury | PhD |
| Ari Edmonds | PhD |
| Alaa El Gendawy | PhD |
| Juan Esquivel Muelbert | PhD |
| Wendy Evans | PhD |
| Brendan Evans | PhD |
| Belinda Fabian | PhD |
| Monica Fahey | PhD |
| Katherine Farrow | PhD |
| Giulia Filippini | PhD |
| Alyssa Fjeld | MRes |
| Jack Flanagan | MRes |
| April Foote | PhD |
| Casey Forster | PhD |
| Thea Fraser | PhD |
| Kara Fry | MRes |
| Nisha Gautam | MRes |
| Jean-Antoine Gazi | PhD |
| Timothy Ghaly | PhD |
| Mina Ghanimi Fard | PhD |
| Megan Gomes | PhD |
| Andrey Giovanni Gomes de Oliveira | PhD |
| Hayley Goodson | MRes |
| Anjali Gopakumar | PhD |
| Lauren Gorojovsky | PhD |
| Bradley Graves | PhD |
| Stephanie Greene | PhD |
| Tristan Guillemin | PhD |
| Fatemeh Habibpourmehraban | PhD |
| Shujun Han | PhD |
| Md Tangigul Haque | MRes |
| Sabrina Haque | PhD |
| Tiarne Harris | MRes |
| Fergus Harrison | PhD |
| Emily Hegarty | MRes |
| Jessica Herbert | MRes |
| Madeleine Holmes | PhD |
| Hafiz Shahid Hussain | PhD |
| Andras Hutvagner | PhD |
| Le Dang Kha Huynh | MRes |
| Carlos Ibañez del Rivero | PhD |
| Jerresa Jabson | MRes |
| Raham Jalil | PhD |
| Wei-Cheng Jiang | PhD |
| Jocelyn Johns | PhD |
| Jack Jones | PhD |
| Julianna Kadar | PhD |
| Shannon Kaiser | MRes |
| Cecilia Kardum Hjort | PhD Cotutelle |
| Michael Kelly | PhD |
| Philip Kelso | MRes |
| Riya Khetan | MRes |
| Andrew King | PhD |
| Samuel King | PhD |
| Brittany Laing | PhD |
| Michelle Lambert | MRes |
| Anthony Lanati | PhD |
| Simona Laukaityte | PhD Cotutelle |
| Ko-Huan Lee | PhD |
| Kiara L’Herpiniere | PhD |
| Zhongxuan Li | PhD |
| Vito Lionetti | PhD |
| Xiaochi Liu | PhD |
| Marcelle Lock | PhD |
| Hannah Lott | MRes |
| Julien Lubeek | PhD |
| Nana Lyu | PhD |
| Polina Lyubyakina | PhD |
| Amy MacIntosh | PhD |
| Srinivasa Maganti | PhD |
| Patrick Manselle | PhD |
| Farhad Masoomi-Aladizgeh | PhD |
| Shiladitya Mazumdar | PhD |
| Callum McDiarmid | PhD |
| Elissa McFarlane | PhD |
| Keith McKenzie | PhD |
| Andrew McLeish | PhD |
| Max McLennan-Gillings | MRes |
| Ena Melvan | PhD Cotutelle |
| Rachael Micklewright | PhD |
| Francesca Mirolo | PhD |
| Arzak Abdeltawab Abdalbaseir Mohamed | PhD |
| Vanessa Morris | PhD |
| Dylan Multari | PhD |
| Stephanie Nagy | PhD |
| Nadine Narayana Samy | MRes |
| TessNelson | PhD |
| Hui Fen Neo | MRes |
| Long Ngo | MRes |
| Ngoc Thuy Tien Nguyen | MRes |
| Casey O’Connor | MRes |
| Jessica O’Hare | PhD |
| Adewale Olamoyesan | PhD |
| Louis O’Neill | PhD Cotutelle |
| Samuel O’Neill | PhD |
| Dameon Osborn | MRes |
| Hector Pacheco Fuentes | PhD |
| Julia Palmer | MRes |
| Paolo Panizzon | PhD Cotutelle |
| Mohammadkazem Papan | PhD |
| Aashi Chetan Parikh | MRes |
| Connie Partalis | MRes |
| Abuduwufu Patiman | PhD |
| Shatabdi Paul | MRes |
| Bhavana Penmetcha | PhD |
| Vanessa Penna Gonçalves | PhD |
| Iestyn Penry-Williams | PhD Cotutelle |
| Bulathsinhalage Sashini Perera | MRes |
| Emma Petrolo | PhD |
| Lachlan Phillips | PhD |
| Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons | PhD |
| Alaska Pokhrel | PhD |
| Loren Pollitt | PhD |
| Megan Powell | PhD |
| Farzana Tasum Prity | MRes |
| Daisy Purdy | PhD |
| Thomas Pyne | PhD |
| Molly Quinn | PhD |
| Florence Ramirez | PhD |
| Lesego Ramokgaba | PhD |
| Giovani Ramon-Cabrera | PhD |
| Pramita Ranjit | PhD |
| Prathiba Ravishankar | PhD |
| Carla Raymond | PhD |
| Joshua Reed | PhD |
| Laura Rey Gomez | MRes |
| Shahrzad Rezvani Baboli | PhD |
| Ana Sabrina Riverón Mato | PhD |
| Danelia Robinson | PhD |
| Yasmin Roustaei | MRes |
| Farshad Salajegheh | PhD |
| Bilqees Sameem | PhD |
| Nusrat Sanzida | MRes |
| Sajida Saqira | PhD |
| Vaishnavi Sathyakumar | MRes |
| Marcel Sayre | PhD Cotutelle |
| Dominic Scopelliti | PhD |
| Olivia Seeger | PhD |
| Neda Sharifi Soltani | PhD |
| Joshua Shea | PhD |
| Sungho Shin | MRes |
| Chutian Shu | PhD |
| Sana Siddiqui | PhD |
| Sanni Silvasti | PhD Cotutelle |
| Minin Sinsona | PhD |
| Daniel Sloane | PhD |
| Nicholas Solomon | PhD |
| Rashika Sood | MRes |
| Ruby Stephens | PhD |
| Heather Stevens | PhD |
| Pradip Subedi | MRes |
| Geraldine Sullivan | PhD |
| Yujie Sun | MRes |
| Lynthener Takenaka de Oliveira | PhD |
| The Anh Than | PhD |
| Pascal Thoya | PhD |
| John Timmins | PhD |
| Carl John Tippler | PhD |
| Nazma Akter Tithi | PhD |
| Marina Tokareva | PhD |
| Louise Tosetto | PhD |
| Ellina Trofimova | MRes |
| Larissa Trompf | PhD |
| Jane Troup | MRes |
| Pamela Tsoumbris | PhD |
| Anastasiia Tukova | PhD |
| Julian Ugonotti | PhD |
| Stefan Valter | MRes |
| Sandhya Verma | PhD |
| Russel Vincent | PhD |
| Adam Wethered | MRes |
| Andrew Wheals | PhD |
| Cassandra Wheeler | MRes |
| Mathilda Whittle | PhD |
| Claire Williams | MRes |
| Hannah Wilson | MRes |
| Brendan Wilson-Mortier | PhD |
| Fengji Wu | PhD |
| Huan Xiao | PhD |
| Tahereh Yazdanparast | PhD |
| Wei Zhang | PhD |
| Shubin Zhou | PhD |
| Hannah Zhu | PhD |