Researcher Profiles

Dr Steven Anderson is a lecturer in the History Department at The University of Adelaide. As an historian with a speciality in Australia, he engages with issues of frontier violence, legal reform, cultural shifts, the history of emotions, and the sociology of penal change.

I have more than 20 years experience in the research, teaching and pharmaceutical industrial consulting in the field of bioprocess design and optimization for biopharmaceutical product process development, both in fundamental and applied research. About 80 publications and 6 patents have been published. My current research main focus on:

Paola Tine' is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology. After her studies in the Arts & Humanities (BA Human Sciences with a major in Cultural Anthropology, University of Siena), she specialised in Visual Anthropology (MA, University of Siena). During her studies, she has focused on the Ukrainian conflict and on the memory-building process in post-soviet states. Her recent work included a fieldwork among the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese community of Adelaide and her current research is focused on social change in modern Nepal.

Simon Raftery is Research Fellow at the Centre for Automotive Safety Research, where he has worked since 2010. Simon has a background in Psychology and is nearing completion of a PhD concerned with the relationship between drug use function and offending behaviour. Simon is experienced in all aspects of research including design, data collection, and analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data.

Hassen is a PhD student at the Adelaide Medical School under the supervision of Professor Helen Marshall, director of Vaccinology and Immunology Research Trials Unit (VIRTU). His research project is examining infant and mother safety following tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination during pregnancy. His research interests are broadly in the area of the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases. Hassen has a specific research interest in immunization during pregnancy.

Postdoctoral researcher with extensive experience studying and investigating highly complex fluid flows within engineering and biological systems. Strong experience with a large range of cutting edge laser diagnostic tools, including laser induced fluorescence (LIF), laser sheet drop-sizing (LSD), planar nephelometry and time-resolved tomographic particle image velocimetry (tomo-PIV).

Associate Professor Neville Gully
Assistant Dean Graduate Studies, Adelaide Dental School.
Associate Professor of Oral Microbiology, University of Adelaide.

Areas of Research: Oral Microbiology, Human Oral Microbiome, Biofilms.

Nigel Cook is a mineralogist-geologist with research interests in complex ore deposits, sulphide mineralogy, geochemistry and ore processing. He obtained his PhD from the University of London, U.K. in 1988. He has worked in Canada, Germany and Norway before joining The University of Adelaide in 2009. He is Deputy Director of the ARC Research Hub for Australian Copper-Uranium. Nigel is Past President of the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD) and was editor-in-Chief of Ore Geology Reviews between 2003 and 2011.

Lecturer, researcher and consultant in experimental/numerical fluid mechanics and aerodynamics with the application in aerospace engineering, wind engineering and renewable energy.