Enquiries for academic officers and research administration teams
Key faculty research contacts
Each of our Schools has a Responsible Academic Officer (RAO) who is typically the Deputy Head of School for Research. The School RAO acts on behalf of the Head of School for all research-related matters pertaining to the strategic oversight along with the academic and administrative recommendations regarding research in your School.
Each School also has a School Academic Officer (SAO) to provide research support to the RAO and their unit. This includes research-related matters for staff as well as all internal aspects of Higher Degree by Research.
Below are contact details for our School RAOs and SAOs for research-related queries.
School of Biomedical Engineering
- Responsible Academic Officer – A/Prof Wei Deng
- School Research enquiries – be.research@uts.edu.au
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Responsible Academic Officer – Dr. Gayathri Danasamy
- School Academic Officer – Larissa Koroleva
School of Computer Science
- Responsible Academic Officer – Daniel Catchpoole
- School Academic Officer – Jelena Smiljanic and Ann Yan
School of Electrical and Data Engineering
- Responsible Academic Officer – A/Prof Qiang Wu
- School Academic Officer – Tena Carolina
School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
- Responsible Academic Officer – A/Prof Andrea Trianni
- School Academic Officer – Angel Lawah
School of Professional Practice and Leadership
- Responsible Academic Officer – Dr. Camille Dickson-Deane
- School Research enquiries – ppl.research@uts.edu.au
Faculty research team
- Acting Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) – Professor Kaska Musial-Gabrys
- Associate Dean (Research Excellence) – Distinguished Professor Jie Liu
- Research Manager – Lisa Merry
- Faculty Research Engagement Director – Sara Mesgari Hagh
- Executive Officer, Research Excellence – Jing Zhao
- Director, Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Programs – Professor Kaska Musial-Gabrys
Faculty Higher Degree by Research (HDR) team
Provides administrative oversight on HDR matters related to pre-enrolment enquiries such as admission and scholarship opportunities, event coordination and workshops for the development of HDR candidates and their supervisors, along with internal funding opportunities for enrolled research candidates.
- Senior HDR Programs Officer – Christina Oh
- HDR Programs Officer – Adele Zhong
- HDR Programs Officer – May Aung Su
Contact the team at feit.hdr@uts.edu.au
Faculty grants and contracts team
Provides faculty-level administration on research projects (internal/external, grants and contract research).
- Senior Grants and Contracts Officer – Candice Gouck
- Grants and Contracts Officer – James Tan
Contact the team at feitresearch@uts.edu.au
Faculty research engagement team
Provides strategic advice on a broad range of competitive industry-linked funding schemes (including ARC ITRP, ARC Linkage Projects, ARC industry fellowships CRCs and CRC-Ps) and leads the development of strategies and activities that generate an increased volume in research funding from industry, government and grant funding bodies.
- Faculty Research Engagement Director – Sara Mesgari Hagh
- Faculty Research Engagement Associate – Peter Zhao
- Faculty Research Engagement Officer – Lakshmi Krishnan
- ARDC Research Data Specialist – Gnana Bharathy
Contact the team at FEIT.Research.Engagement@uts.edu.au
Faculty research administration
- Research Administration and Communications Officer – Bianca Brymer