CHT members

Professor Alaina Ammit is Professor of Respiratory Pharmacology in the School of Life Sciences and Associate Dean (Research Excellence) in the Faculty of Science. These positions are held…

Prof. Adrian N. Bishop is with the School of Biomedical Engineering and the Centre for Health Technologies. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO. Dr. Bishop is supported by the Australian…

Michael Braun is a medical physicist with particular interest in imaging. He has worked in the areas of image registration, segmentation, tomographic reconstruction, motion correction, tissue…

Rifai Chai is an early career researcher exploring the brain-body connections through the applications in biomedical engineering. Also, he has extensive knowledge and experience in designing…

Uphar is a biomechanist with interests in musculoskeletal joints and structures. The overarching goal of his research is to better understand the biomechanics of various musculoskeletal joints and…

Dr Hui Chen is an Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences. She is the Director of China Programs, Faculty of Science and lecturing in human physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology.…

Aaron Coutts is a distinguished professor in sport and exercise science. Aaron teaches in the areas of applied exercise physiology, exercise prescription and research design and statistics. His…

Dr Cranfield has a BSc (Hons) from Monash University and completed his PhD in Biophysics at Swinburne University of Technology in 2002 where he investigated the effects of mobile phone radiation on…

Professor Simon Darcy believes passionately in the rights of all people to fully participate in community life. A Professor in Management at UTS Business School, he specialises in developing…

Richard is employed as an Associate Professor with the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation. He is currently working as the Senior Evaluator for the PBAC Team and as the Project…

Barry Drake is an Industry Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at UTS.  Barry applies his background in computer science and R&D mainly focused on the health system…

David Eager is the Professor of Risk Management and Injury Prevention and the Assistance Student Ombud at UTS. David is an internationally recognised expert on the safety aspects of trampolines and…

Dr Majid E Warkiani is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering at UTS, Sydney, Australia. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (…

Bogdan Gabrys is a Data Scientist, a Professor of Data Science and a Director of Advanced Analytics Institute at the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He…

I am a researcher in Mobile Technologies, Digital Health and Social Innovation. My work is multi-disciplinary and in collaboration with the industry. I teach Design and Innovation to Data and…

Dr Carmine Gentile, PharmD/PhD, FAHA, is a Lecturer within the School of Biomedical Engineering and leads the Cardiovascular Regeneration Group both at UTS and at the Kolling Institute/University of…

Assoc Prof George has been at the University of Technology since its inception as a university in 1989. He has published over 60 papers. He graduated with a PhD degree from the University of Sydney…

Dr. Golzan is an NHMRC dementia fellow with research expertise in ocular imaging techniques, mechanical and structural properties of retinal vessels and modeling dynamic physiological interactions…

Cathy is a member of the Biology and Biotechnology discipline in the School of Life Sciences. Cathy's research interest in neuroscience, in particular in neurotrauma (brain and spinal cord…

Dr Doan Hoang is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Dara Engineering (SEDE), Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He is a Research…

Dr Gyorgy Hutvagner obtained his MSc from Biotechnology and PhD from Biology in Hungary. He has completed his postdoctoral training in The Netherlands (Plant Research International, Wageningen, 1999–…

Education:  2000-2004 BSc in Physics, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russian Federation  2005-2007 MSc in Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation  2008-2012 PhD in…

Professor Kennedy has a PhD (Computing Science) and joined UTS in 1999. He is Director of the Biomedical Data Science Laboratory in the UTS Centre for Artificial Intelligence. This Centre is a…

Peter Leijdekkers received his Master’s degree and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Peter Leijdekkers has been a researcher for more than 20 years in both…

Dr. Jinyan Li is a Professor of Data Science at the Advanced Analytics Institute and a core member at the Centre for Health Technologies, Faculty of Engineering and IT, UTS. He is also the…

Dr Steve S.H. Ling has worked extensively on design and analysis on computational intelligence technologies since 2000.  He has a MPhil and PhD in Electronic and Information Engineering from the Hong…

Professor Deborah Marsh is a cell and molecular biologist who, since August 2018 has led the Translational Oncology Group at UTS in the School of Life Sciences (SoLS), Faculty of Science. She is also…

Kristine is a lecturer within the University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Science. She is currently coordinating the first year core Science Subject – Cell Biology and Genetics. Kristine has…

Professor Bruce Milthorpe joined UTS as Dean of Science in November 2008. Previously he was professor in the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales. From February…

Najah started at UTS in 2003 and her primary research interests are in the investigation of the genetic and molecular basis of human disease with the aim of developing diagnostic/prognostic…

Toby Newton-John is a Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor at UTS. He completed undergraduate psychology and postgraduate clinical psychology training at University of Sydney before moving…

Dr Tuan V Nguyen is a Professor of Predictive Medicine at the School of Biomedical Engineering, and a Senior Principal Fellow of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. He also holds appointments…

Bronwyn is an Associate Professor of Immunology and Director of Undergraduate Programs (Faculty of Science). She is a core member of the Centre for Health Technologies (Key University Research…

Professor Oliver is a translational researcher who aims to identify and develop new ways of treating respiratory diseases.  His scientific training began at the National Heart and Lung Institute,…

Deborah is the Professor of Aged Care (Dementia) in the Faculty of Health. She has received over $35 million in research funding. Her primary areas of research are palliative care for older people,…

Twitter: @phillips_janey Connect on LinkedIn Professor Jane Phillips is at the forefront of her field and brings her considerable clinical nursing, national policy and academic expertise to deliver…

Assoc. Prof. Xianqin Qu has gained her MD in China and PhD in Australia; her research focuses on the mechanism of insulin resistance and lipotoxicity contributing to metabolic syndrome, non-alcoholic…

Ken Rodgers trained as a pharmacist in the United Kingdom and had ten years experience in the pharmaceutical industry before embarking on an academic research career. After completing his Ph.D.…

Professor Simpson has a BSc (Hons) and a PhD (Veterinary Science) from the University of Sydney. Professor Simpson joined the staff at UTS in 1994 and since 2002 has held the position of Professor of…

Prabhu Sivabalan is a Professor of Management Accounting and Control. Prior to pursuing an academic career, Prabhu was a cadet analyst in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. He has broad expertise in…

Dr. Steven Su received his Ph.D. in Control Engineering from RSISE the Australian National University (ANU) in May 2003. He was then a research fellow for nearly four years in the Faculty of…

Dr Javad Tavakoli moved to the University of Technology Sydney after being awarded the prestigious Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship in January 2020. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2020)…

Joanne moved into the multidisciplinary research field of medical engineering in the mid 1990s after completing a PhD in skin microbiology at the University of Leeds. Over the last 25 years she has…

Stella Valenzuela is a cell and molecular biologist and is currently the Director of the IDEAL Hub, an ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub. Stella undertook her PhD studies  at the Centre for…

Jaime Valls Miro (Valencia, Spain, 1/11/1969) received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Computer Science (Systems Engineering) from the Valencia Polytechnic University (UPV), Valencia (Spain), in…

Peter Watterson completed an Honours BSc, with applied mathematics emphasis, at Monash University in 1980, and a PhD in magnetohydrodynamics at Cambridge University in 1985. He spent the next five…