Our team

Administration

Beatrice Haselroither
VH2 Administrator
bhaselroither@swinburne.edu.au

Skills Roadmap

Kerrin Pryor
Project Manager
kjpryor@swinburne.edu.au

Engagement – Design Factory Melbourne

Professor Anita Kocsis
Director
akocsis@swinburne.edu.au

Stefan Lodewyckx
Hydrogen Futures Researcher
slodewyckx@swinburne.edu.au

Research Fellows

Madeline Van Dongen
VH2/AIR Hub Hydrogen Storage Technologies
mvandongen@swinburne.edu.au

Readiness – Factory of the Future

Associate Professor Prem Prakash Jayaraman
Director, Factory of the Future
pjayaraman@swinburne.edu.au

Impact Masters scholarships

David Holder
Project thematic area: The role of hydrogen in decarbonising ports
dholder@swinburne.edu.au

Manashaa Madhavan
Project thematic area: Diversity in hydrogen

Zizhao Peng
Project thematic area: Additive manufacturing of lightweight structures for hydrogen powered vehicles
zpeng@swinburne.edu.au

Impact PhD scholarships

Dorsa Alipour
Project thematic area: Energy model focusing on planning green urban freight transport networks using hydrogen as an alternative fuel
dalipour@swinburne.edu.au

Gopal Pandey
Project thematic area: Use of Hydrogen in Steelmaking
gopalpandey@swinburne.edu.au

Rob Hamilton
Project thematic area: Understanding about hydrogen among the public
robhamilton@swinburne.edu.au

Daniel Rasoulzdeh
Project thematic area: Performance Assessment Framework for Maximising the Productivity of Hydrogen Delivery in Australia
drasoulzadeh@swinburne.edu.au

Salim Hijazeen
Project thematic area: Hydrogen Adoption in Aviation
shijazeen@swinburne.edu.au

Siripond Mullanu
Project thematic area: Advanced data analytics for integrated energy systems 
smullanu@swinburne.edu.au

Aaron Bourke
Project thematic area: Investigation into how organic ligands modulate the activity of metal oxides for water oxidation catalysis – Improving the efficiency of power to X
aaronbourke@swinburne.edu.au

Swinburne ecosystem

Professor Virginia Kilborn
Chief Scientist
vkilborn@swinburne.edu.au

Fiona Knowles
Director Learning Design & Innovation
fknowles@swinburne.edu.au

Professor Alex Stojcevski
Dean of School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies
astojcevski@swinburne.edu.au

Professor Hussein Dia
Department Chair, Civil & Construction Engineering
hdia@swinburne.edu.au

Dr Adriano Di Pietro
Director, AIR Hub
adipietro@swinburne.edu.au

Professor Zheng Lei
Department Chair, Aviation
zlei@swinburne.edu.au

Professor Akbar Rhamdhani
Director of Fluid and Process Dynamics (FPD) Group
arhamdhani@swinburne.edu.au

Professor Dong Ruan
Department Chair, Mechanical and Product Design Engineering
druan@swinburne.edu.au

Dr Joshua Allwright
Research Associate
jallwright@swinburne.edu.au

Dr Carolyn Beasley
Senior Lecturer, Media and Communication
cbeasley@swinburne.edu.au

Professor Geoffrey Brooks
Professor, Engineering
gbrooks@swinburne.edu.au

Dr Tommy Cheung
Senior Lecturer, Aviation
tommycheung@swinburne.edu.au

Professor Kay Cook
Professor in the Department of Social Sciences
kcook@swinburne.edu.au

Dr Hadi Ghaderi
Senior Lecturer, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
hghaderi@swinburne.edu.au

Dr Rosalie Hocking
Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry & Biotechnology
rhocking@swinburne.edu.au

Dr Ambarish Kullkarni
Senior Lecturer, Computer Aided Engineering
ambarishkulkarni@swinburne.edu.au

Dr Julian Oldmeadow
Senior Lecturer, Psychology
joldmeadow@swinburne.edu.au

Associate Professor Mahnaz Shafiei
Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Women in STEM
mshafiei@swinburne.edu.au

Professor Feng Wang
Professor, Chemistry
fwang@swinburne.edu.au

Dr Melissa Wheeler
Senior Lecturer, Management
mwheeler@swinburne.edu.au

Dr James Williams
Course Director Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Advanced)
jwilliams@swinburne.edu.au

Associate Professor Sam Wilson
Associate Professor, Management
sgwilson@swinburne.edu.au