Previous Successful Applicants

Promotion to Professor - Successful Applicants 2012

The University Promotions Committee RECOMMENDS that the following members of staff be promoted to Professor with effect from 1 January 2013:

Associate Professor Jie Bao
 School of Chemical Engineering
Associate Professor Sean Brawley
 School of Humanities
Associate Professor Andrew Brown
 School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
Associate Professor Elizabeth Carson
 School of Accounting
Associate Professor Grant Collins
 School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical  Sciences
Associate Professor Gavin Conibeer
 School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
Associate Professor Jie Du
 School of Mathematics and Statistics
Associate Professor Elizabeth Fernandez
 School of Social Sciences
Associate Professor Bruce Henry
 School of Mathematics and Statistics
Associate Professor Vicki Kirby
 School of Social Sciences
Associate Professor Naresh Kumar
 School of Chemistry
Associate Professor Francois Ladouceur
 School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Associate Professor Greg Leslie
 School of Chemical Engineering
Associate Professor Hodaka Morita
 School of Economics
Associate Professor Michelle Moulds
 School of Psychology
Associate Professor Fethi Rabhi
 School of Computer Science and Engineering
Associate Professor Per Setterlund
 School of Chemical Engineering
Associate Professor Chongmin Song
 School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor Peter White
 School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
Associate Professor Hongyuan Robert Yang
 School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences

Thank you to the members of all Faculty Promotions Committees and the University Promotions Committee for their hard work during this promotion round.

Promotion to Associate Professor - Successful Applicants 2012

The University Promotions Committee RECOMMENDS that the following members of staff be promoted to Associate Professor with effect from 1 January 2013

Dr Susan Best  School of Art History and Art Education
Dr Russell Bonduriansky  School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mr Sean Brennan  School of Law
Dr David Brown  St Vincent’s Hospital Clinical School
Mr Richard Buckland  School of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr Thomas Denson  School of Psychology
Dr Socrates Dokos  Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
Dr Nicholas Doumanis  School of Humanities
Dr Bonita Ely  School of Art
Dr Jason Evans  Climate Change Research Centre
Dr Shayne Gary  School of Management
Dr Andrew Georgiou  Australia Institute of Health Innovation
Dr Rebecca Guy  The Kirby Institute
Dr Mark Holzer  School of Mathematics and Statistics
Dr Twan Huybers  School of Business, UNSW Canberra
Dr Xuchuan Jiang  School of Materials Science and Engineering
Dr Salil Kanhere  School of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr Shawn Laffan  School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr Pierre Le Clech  School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Geoffrey Levey  School of Social Sciences
Dr Kama Maclean  School of Humanities
Dr Michael Maher  School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW Canberra
Dr Matthew McCabe  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr Duncan McDuie-Ra  School of Social Sciences
Dr Elizabeth McMahon  School of Arts and Media
Dr Katrin Meissner  Climate Change Research Centre
Dr Andrea Morello  School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Dr Kristy Muir  Social Policy Research Centre
Dr Valentyn Panchenko  School of Economics
Dr Olivier Piguet  Neuroscience Research Australia
Dr John Pimanda  Prince of Wales Hospital Clinical School
Dr Ronan Powell  School of Banking and Finance
Dr Scott Rice  Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation
Dr Nolan Sharkey  School of Taxation and Business Law
Dr Laura Shepherd  School of Social Sciences
Dr Timothy Slade  National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
Dr Branka Spehar  School of Psychology
Dr Craig Stockings  School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra
Dr Catherine Suter  Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Dr Torsten Thomas  School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
Dr Pall Thordarson  School of Chemistry
Dr Wei Wen  School of Psychiatry
Dr Sarah Williams  School of Law
Ms Liz Williamson  School of Design Studies
Dr Stephen Wroe  School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr Jason Zein  School of Banking and Finance
Dr Wei Zhang  School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

Thank you to the members of all Faculty Promotions Committees and the University Promotions Committee for their hard work during this promotion round.

Human Resources

Promotion to Senior Lecturer - Successful Applicants 2012

The Faculty Promotion Committees recommends that the following members of staff be promoted to Senior Lecturer with effect from 1 July 2012:

Mr Rod Bamford  School of Design Studies
Dr Anthony Billingsley  School of Social Sciences
Dr Catherine Bond  School of Law
Dr Cyrille Boyer  School of Chemical Engineering 
Dr Tania Bucic  School of Marketing
Dr Carlo Caponecchia  School of Aviation
Dr Georgina Chambers  School of Women’s and Children’s Health
Dr Mathew Chylinski  School of Marketing
Dr John Daniels  School of Materials Science and Engineering 
Dr Chris Danta  School of Arts and Media
Dr Daoyi Dong  School of Engineering and Information Technology,  UNSW Canberra
Dr Hazel Easthope  City Futures Research Centre 
Dr Thomas Fath  School of Medical Sciences
Dr Michael Garbutt  School of Design Studies
Dr Sarah Gregson  School of Management
Dr Ben Greiner  School of Economics
Dr Ehab Hamed  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr Jae Yup Jung  School of Education
Dr Angela Kelly  School of Public Health and Community Medicine 
Dr Kersten Koelsch  The Kirby Institute
Mr Volker Kuchelmeister  School of Media Arts
Dr Kevin Laws  School of Materials Science and Engineering 
Dr Trevor Lewis  School of Medical Sciences
Dr Megan Lord  Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
Dr Fabio Luciani  School of Medical Sciences
Dr Josh McCarroll  Children’s Cancer Institute Australia
Dr Alyce McGovern  School of Social Sciences 
Mr Brad Miller  School of Design Studies
Dr Rebecca Mitchell  School of Aviation
Dr Gila Moalem-Taylor  School of Medical Sciences
Dr Renee Morris  School of Medical Sciences
Dr Anthony Newall  School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Dr Nicola Newton  National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
Dr Terrance Ord  School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr Jill Owen  School of Business, UNSW Canberra
Dr John Peterson  School of Arts and Media
Dr Rebekah Puls  The Kirby Institute 
Dr Stephen Redmond  Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
Dr Jenny Richmond  School of Psychology
Dr Russell Rodrigo  Architecture and Design
Dr Scott Sharpe  School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences,  UNSW Canberra
Dr Santosh Shrestha  School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
Dr Lei Zhang  The Kirby Institute

Congratulations to each of the successful applicants and thank you to all the members of all Faculty Promotions Committees for their hard work during this promotion round.
 
 

Promotion to Lecturer - Successful Applicants 2012

The following members of the academic staff were promoted to Lecturer with effect from 1 January 2013:

Dr Tjeerd Boonstra  School of Psychiatry
Dr Graham Doig  School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Dr Kejun Dong  School of Materials Science and Engineering
Dr Zhanhai Gao  School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Dr Myra Hamilton  Social Policy Research Centre
Dr Radzi Jidin  School of Accounting
Dr Karen Mather  School of Psychiatry
Dr Jordana McLoone School of Women’s and Children’s Health
Dr Angela Nickerson  School of Psychology
Dr Peter Roth  School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Fiona Shand  Black Dog Institute
Dr Yansong Shen  School of Materials Science and Engineering
Dr Alishia Williams  School of Psychiatry
Dr Melissa Wong  Social Policy Research Centre 

Thank you to Faculty Offices and the members of the Faculty Promotions Committees for their hard work during this promotion round.

Scientia Professors

Current Scientia Professors  
Term of Appointment from 01/01/07 until 31/12/2012
Professor Michael Cowling  School of Mathematics 
Professor Ian Dawes  School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences 
Professor Gordon Parker  School of Psychiatry 
Professor Ken Trotman  School of Accounting 
Professor Christine Alexander  School of English 
Professor Colin Chesterman  Clinical School, Prince of Wales Hospital (retired January 2009)
Professor Robert Kohn  School of Economics
Professor Ian Petersen  School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, UNSW@ADFA
Professor Peter Saunders  Social Policy Research Centre 
Professor Ian Tyrrell  School of History 
Professor Fred Westbrook  School of Psychology 
Professor Aibing Yu  School of Materials Science and Engineering
   
Term of Appointment from 01/01/09 until 31/12/2014
Professor Victor Flambaum  School of Physics 
Professor Staffan Kjelleberg  School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences 
Professor Stuart Wenham  Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering 
Professor Michelle Simmons  Centre for Quantum Computer Technology 
Professor Rose Amal  School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering 
Professor Alan Woodland  School of Economics 
Professor Veena Sahajwalla  School of Materials Science and Engineering 
Professor Neil Foster  School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering 
Professor Philip Mitchell  School of Psychiatry 
Professor Perminder Sachdev  School of Psychiatry 
 Professor Liangchi Zhang  School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
   
Term of Appointment from 01/01/11 until 31/12/2016
Professor Mark Bradford  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Henry Brodaty  School of Psychiatry
Professor Richard Bryant  School of Psychology (reappointed)
Professor David Cooper  National centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (reappointed)
Professor Jay Pil Choi  School of Economics
Professor Andrew Dzurak  School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Professor Joseph Forgas  School of Psychology (reappointed)
Professor John Gascoigne  School of History and Philosophy
Professor Martin Green  School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Engineering (reappointed)
Professor Justin Gooding  School of Chemistry
Professor Gernot Heiser  School of Computer Science and Engineering
Professor Nigel Lovell  Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
Professor Ronald Masulis  School of Banking and Finance
Professor John Piggott  School of Economics
Professor David Waite  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor George Williams  School of Law
   
Term of Appointment from 01/01/2013 until 31/12/2018
Professor Ross Buckley  School of Law
Professor Alexander Hamilton  School of Physics
Professor Mark Harris  Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity
Professor Robert Kohn  School of Economics (reappointed)
Professor Jane McAdam  School of Law
Professor Trevor McDougall  School of Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Brett Neilan  School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
Professor Gordon Parker  School of Psychiatry (reappointed)
Professor Paul Patton  School of Humanities
Professor George Paxinos  Neuroscience Research Australia
Professor Ian Petersen  School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, UNSW Canberra (reappointed)
Professor Deo Prasad  School of The Built Environment
Professor Roger Simnett  School of Accounting
Professor Ken Trotman  School of Accounting (reappointed)
Professor Fred Westbrook  School of Psychology (reappointed)
Professor Aibing Yu  School of Materials Science and Engineering (reappointed)

Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Teaching Excellence - Recipients 2012

At its meeting held on Wednesday 5 December, the University's Central Committee considered nominations for this year's Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Teaching Excellence and has recommended the following nominees receive a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence for 2012

Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence - General Category
Dr Chinthaka Balasooriya  School of Public Health and Community Medicine
The Japanese Studies Team  School of International Studies
Associate Professor Sami Kara  School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Associate Professor Alistair Poore  School of Biological,Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr Chris Tisdell  School of Mathematics and Statistics
Ms Judith Watson  School of Economics
   
Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence – Postgraduate Research Supervision
Associate Professor Andrew Brown  School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
Associate Professor Emma Johnston  School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor Nagarajan Valanoor  School of Materials Science and Engineering
   
Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence - Sessional Teaching (Tutors and Demonstrators)
Mr Krishna Dermawan  School of Management
Mr Gee Chong Ling  School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
   
Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Initiatives that Enhance Learning
Mr John Cowan  Construction Management, Faculty of The Built Environment
Dr Mark Hill  School of Medical Sciences
Professor Gernot Heiser and Dr Kevin Elphinstone  School of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr Patsie Polly and Ms Gwyn Jones  School of Medical Sciences

Professor Hilmer is very pleased to be able to formally recognise individual contribution to excellence in teaching as an essential and fundamental mission of the University.