People

Chief Investigators

• Professor Xungai Wang
  Pro Vice-Chancellor, Future Fibres, Deakin University
• Professor Tong Lin
  ARC Future Fellow (Functional fibrous materials and short fibres), Deakin University
• Professor Bronwyn Fox
  Director, Manufacturing Futures Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
• Professor Russell Varley
  Professor (Composite materials), Deakin University
• Professor Joselito Razal
  Professor (Fibre spinning), Deakin University
• Professor Luke Henderson
  Professor (Materials chemistry), Deakin University
• Associate Professor Jingliang Li
  Associate Professor (Fibres for biomedical applications), Deakin University
• Associate Professor Minoo Naebe
  Associate Professor (Carbon fibre), Deakin University
• Associate Professor Nolene Byrne
  Associate Professor (Materials engineering/Circular economy), Deakin University
• Associate Professor Alessandra Sutti
  Associate Professor (Short fibres), Deakin University
• Associate Professor Rangam Rajkhowa
  Associate Professor (Advanced materials from natural fibres), Deakin University
• Dr Christopher Hurren
  Senior Research Fellow (Fibre science and technology), Deakin University
• Dr Mandy de Souza
  Research Fellow (Carbon fibres)

Partner Investigators

• Dr Murray Height
  Chief Executive Officer, HeiQ
• Dr Ashley Denmead
  Engineering and Design Director, Carbon Revolution
• Krishna Oruganti
  Technology and Engineering Manager, Quickstep Automotive
• Professor Marcus Atlas
  Director, Ear Science Institute Australia
• Dr Tony Pierlot
  Theme Leader, Materials Science and Engineering, CSIRO
• Dr Ian Blanchonette
  Team Leader, Flexible Materials, CSIRO
• Dr Linda Hillbrick
  Experimental Scientist, CSIRO
• Professor Gregory Rutledge
  Lammot du Pont Professor in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Professor Friedrich Vollrath
  Department of Zoology, Oxford University
• Professor Uwe Pieles
  Institute for Chemistry and Bioanalytics, School of Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland
• Dr Rudolf Hufenus
  Research and Development Manager, Polymer & Processing Group, Laboratory for Advanced Fibers, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
• Professor Jeffrey Wiggins
  Director of the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials, The University of Southern Mississippi
• Professor David Kaplan
  Stern Family Professor of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University

Research Fellows/Engineers

• Dr Ben Allardyce
  Research Fellow (Grade 2), High value-added applications
• Dale Atwell
  Research Engineer, Carbon fibre composites
• Mr Peter Herwig
  Technical Officer
• Dr Sima Kashi
  Research Engineer, Carbon fibre composites
• Dr Sahar Naghashian
  Associate Research Fellow, Carbon fibre composites
• Dr Marzieh Parhizkar
  Research Fellow (Grade 2), Short fibres and nanofibres
• Dr Amol Patil
  Research Engineer, Short fibres and nanofibres
• Dr Emma Prime
  Hub Manager
• Dr Julie Sharp
  Senior Research Fellow, Biomaterials
• Dr Surya Subianto
  Associate Research Fellow, Short fibres and nanofibres
• Dr Nathan Thompson
  Research Engineer, Short fibres and nanofibres

PhD Students

• Beini Zeng
  Project title: Development of an up-cycling process for denim waste using ionic liquids (completed)
• Mina Bayattork
  Project title: Creating biomimetic fibrous silk scaffolds from hydrogels by controlling ice formation
• Saman Ghadi
  Project title: Understanding residual stress in composites and its impact upon durability
• Jaehoon Choi
  Project title: Composite structural batteries
• Ken Aldren Usman
  Project title: Novel resin-free high performance multi-functional materials
• Yijun Qian
  Project title: Utilization of two dimensional nanocomposites as membranes for gas separation, water purification and nanogenerators
• Dominic Renggli
  Project title: Stabilisation of natural polymer derived (short) fibres for use in aqueous formulations

Associate Members

• Dr Negin Amini
  Associate Research Fellow (Particle Engineering), Deakin University
• Dr Abhijeet Bapat
  Associate Research Fellow (Adaptive Materials Optimisation), Deakin University
• Dr Claudia Creighton
  Research Fellow (Carbon Fibres), Deakin University
• Dr Dylan Hegh
  Research Engineer (ANFF), Deakin University
• Dr Jasjeet Kaur
  Postdoctoral Fellow (Advanced Fibre Innovation), CSIRO
• Graeme Keating
  Technical Officer (Fibres), Deakin University
• Dr Weiwei Lei
  Senior Research Fellow (Plasma and Nanotechnology), Deakin University
• Dr Dan Liu
  Research Fellow, Deakin University
• Dr Peter Lynch
  Senior Research Fellow (ANFF), Deakin University
• Dr Maryam Naebe
  Senior Research Fellow (Fibre Science & Technology), Deakin University
• Dr Esfandiar Pakdel
  Alfred Deakin Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University
• Associate Professor Fred Pfeffer
  Associate Professor of Chemistry, Deakin University
• Dr Alex Qin
  Associate Research Fellow, Deakin University
• Dr David Rubin de Celis Leal
  Associate Research Fellow (Adaptive Materials Optimisation), Deakin University
• Nishat Sharma
  Research Assistant (Short fibres and nanofibres), Deakin University
• Dr Filippo Valente
  Research Fellow, Ear Science Institute Australia
• Dr Jing Wang
  Research Fellow, Deakin University
• Martina Di Venere
  PhD student (Short fibres and nanofibres), Deakin University
• Nguyen Duc Le
  PhD student (bio-based carbon fibres), Deakin University
• San Seint Seint Aye
  PhD student, Deakin University
• Zhiyu Wang
  PhD student, Deakin University
• Daniel Whyte
  Masters student, Deakin University
• Fangli Yang
  PhD student, Deakin University
• Ya Yao
  PhD student, Deakin University
• Jizhen Zhang
  PhD student, Deakin University
• Jun Zhang
  PhD student, Deakin University