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
David Eyre 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 Administration Officer
Project Leaders
Prof. Ian Anderson PC phenotyping, PC tech
Prof. Derek Baker Farmer Survey
Prof. Douglas Baker Agrifood clusters
Dr Sean Bellairs Native rice
Dr Maria Veronica Chandra-Hioe Food regulation, Product development
Dr Chris Cazzonelli Acoustic pollination
Dr Ozgur Dedehayir Coffs analytics
Prof. Marcus Foth Smart trade
Assoc. Prof. Oula Ghannoum PC smartglass
Dr Ahmed W A Hammad Western Sydney mapping
Assoc. Prof. Wen Hu Indoor IoT
Prof. Sami Kara Manufacturing facility
Prof. Priti Krishna Blueberry optimisation
Dr Chris Lehnert Modular vertical
Prof. Greg Leslie PC facilities
Dr Ruey Leng Loo Artichoke bioactives
Prof. Cordelia Selomulya Nutraceutical Spray Drying, Improving plant based food
Craig Shephard National PC Systems Map
Prof. Robert Speight New protein production
Fraser Taylor FoodSwitch Connect
Dr Gal Winter Tomato rhizobiome