Board
Fiona Simson Chair
Peter Schutz Director
Carolyn McNally Director
Bob Mullins Director
Maggie Dowling Director
Mark Prendergast Director
Tony Cull Director
Research & Innovation Team
Richard Norton Interim Chief Executive Officer
Satish Nair Chief Operating Officer
Prof. Cordelia Selomulya Research & Commercialisation Director
Prof. Douglas Baker Research Lead Program 1: Planning for growth
Prof. David Tissue Research Lead Program 2: Future farming systems
Prof. Jeremy Nicholson Research Lead Program 3: Future food products and precision nutrition
Prof. Brian Sindel Industry PhD Program Lead
Dr Maria Veronica Chandra-Hioe Research Project Coordinator
Merran White Communications Manager
Anthony Battaglia Digital Assets Manager
William Ngo Digital Design Officer
Emma Hills Executive Support Officer
Project Leaders
Prof. Ian Anderson Protected cropping tech review; Sensing technologies for automated and fast phenotyping review
Prof. Derek Baker NSW Farmer's Survey
Prof. Douglas Baker Global best practice in urban agrifood design and planning
Dr Sean Bellairs Commercialisation of Native rice
Dr Chris Cazzonelli Acoustic pollination
Dr Maria Veronica Chandra-Hioe Food regulation, Product development
Prof. Zhonghua Chen Optimum cooling strategy
Dr Ozgur Dedehayir Understanding the Food Innovation Ecosystem in Coffs Harbour
Prof. Marcus Foth Smart Trade Hubs
Assoc. Prof. Oula Ghannoum Smart Greenhouse Technology – Crop Monitoring
Dr Ahmed W A Hammad Western Sydney Agrifood Mapping and Analytics
Assoc. Prof. Hoon Han Namoi - Smart Agribusiness
Prof. Wen Hu Indoor IoT
Prof. Sami Kara System Design and Configuration for Sprout Stack Production System
Prof. Priti Krishna Blueberry optimisation
Dr Chris Lehnert Identify protected cropping systems for automation; Analysis of a modular vertical growing system; Enabling automation in protected cropping systems
Prof. Greg Leslie Next generation protected cropping facilities: survey of global innovation trends and Southern Hemisphere R&D opportunities
Dr Ruey-Leng Loo Artichoke bioactives, ANPC analytics
Dr Nisha Rakhesh Broccolini pathogen management
Prof. Cordelia Selomulya Nutraceutical Spray Drying; Improving plant based food; 'Art' of grain drying
Craig Shephard National PC Systems Map
Prof. Robert Speight New protein production
Fraser Taylor FoodSwitch Connect
Adam Wilson Truffle cultivation expansion
Dr Gal Winter Tomato rhizobiome
PhD students
Gehan Abdelghany PhD
Mark Cardamis PhD
Eranda Namal Jayasuriya PhD
Terry Lin PhD
Gareema Pandey PhD
Phil Thomas PhD
Andrew Tilley PhD