The SBRC team are academia and industry experts with extensive interests, knowledge and skillsets. Learn more about our people through their profiles below.
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All general enquires please email us
Our people
- Executive staff
- Academics
- Professional Staff
- Collaborators
- Visiting and Honorary Fellows
- Previous visiting researchers
Professor Tim McCarthy
Director, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
Professor Zhenjun Ma
Deputy Director, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
Associate Professor Duane Robinson
Technical Director, Australian Power Quality and Reliability Centre
All general enquires please email sbrc@uow.edu.au
Dr Craig McLauchlan
Research Facilities Manager
craig_mclauchlan@uow.edu.au | +61 2 4221 5280
Gerrard Drury
Programmer / Analyst
gerrard_drury@uow.edu.au | +61 2 4221 3416
Sean Elphick
Research Coordinator
sean_elphick@uow.edu.au | +61 2 4221 4737
Michael Tibbs
Research Fellow
michael_tibbs@uow.edu.au
Joanne Robson
Administration Assistant
joanne_robson@uow.edu.au
- Gridsite
- Distributed power generation, photovoltaic power systems, power distribution control, power distribution economics, power generation control, power generation economics, reactive power control, voltage control
- Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS)
- Political geography, rural studies, ethnology
- Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS)
- Cultural Research for Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation
- School of Civil, Mining, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
- Sustainable Structural Design and Construction
- Australian Institute for Innovative Materials
- Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials
- Superconductor science, power distribution
- School of Mechanical, Materials & Mechatronics Engineering
- River and wind-based renewable energy technologies; green eco-friendly lubricants for material processing; and applied fluid dynamics of industrial thin coating process.
Associate Professor Kashem Muttaqi
- School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
- Electrical power systems, renewable energy, smart grids, etc
Professor David Officer
- Intelligent Polymers Research Institute
- Organic photovoltaics systems, artificial photosynthesis, etc
- School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
- Electrical power systems, effect of wind energy on grid, renewables, smart grids, etc
- School of Biological Sciences
- Green roofs and walls
Associate Professor Neaz Sheikh
- School of Civil, Mining, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
- Construction, building information modelling, earthquake, climate adaptions
Associate Professor Muttucumaru Sivakumar
- School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering
- Water treatment, hydrogen production, waste treatment
Honorary Senior Fellow Vic Smith
- School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering
- Electrical power systems, power quality, renewables, smart grids, etc
- School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering
- Energy in buildings, alternative energy systems
- School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
- Electrical power systems, renewables, fuel cells, smart grids, etc
- School of Civil, Mining, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
- Construction techniques, lightweight steel structures, Energy in Buildings
- Australian Health Services Research Institute (AHSRI)
- Marketing principles and communications, social marketing, critical marketing teaching and research
- Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS)
- Social/Culture Geography Cultures of Natures
- Professor Alex Baitch,
Principal, BES (Aust) Pty Ltd
- Mr Michael Bradburn,
Project Architect, Richard Crookes Constructions - Dr Steve Burroughs,
Principle, Dr Steve Burroughs Foundation
- Mr Yale Carden,
Founder and Managing Director, GeoExchange Australia
- Dr Sheng Chew,
Senior Technology & Development Engineer, BlueScope
- Mr Stephen Choi,
Vice-Chair of the Board, Living Future Institute of Australia
- Mr Ty Christopher,
Director Energy Futures Network, University of Wollongong
- Mr Alberto Escribano,
Managing Partner, AFCA Teccon
- Dr Massimo Fiorentini,
Scientist, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
- Mr Mark Jones,
Architect, Architects Edmiston Jones
- Mr Lance Jeffery,
Project Manager, Retrofitting for Resilient and Sustainable Buildings (RRSB) program, Hyve Projects
- Dr Wenye Lin,
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany
- Professor Nalin Pahalawatta,
Senior Technical Director - Power Systems, GHD
- Professor Jahan Peiris,
Main System Planning Manager, TransGrid
- Mr Albert Pors,
Power Quality and Reliability Planning Manager, Endeavour Energy
- Professor Scott Ryan,
Chief Asset & Operating Officer, Endeavour Energy
- Dr Subbu Sethuvenkatraman,
Research Group Leader, CSIRO
- Dr Federico Tartarini,
Honorary Research Fellow, Federico's Scholars Profile
Scott Beazley
Scott Beazley has over 35 years of experience practicing in Architecture and 28 years in CAD-BIM teaching at university and technical colleges. Along with his university commitments Scott has worked as a digital technology manager for a leading quantity surveyor helping with validation of models for quantification to derive costs. His key skills are BIM Model checking and validation, IFC mapping, Revit export and import of IFC, linking of 3D models with 4D time and 5D costs. Scott's research interests include BIM (Building Information Modelling), Building design collaboration, Sustainable Building Design, Digital model checking and validation, Linking 3D models with 4D(time) and 5D(cost), Building data exchanges: IFC: Industry Foundation Classes, IDM: Information Delivery Manuals and Interoperability of building design and analysis software.
Professor Liliana Fay
Professor Liliana Fay. Professor Fay, an architecture and construction engineering academic from the Brazil’s Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, competed a post-doctoral research project at SBRC entitled: Innovation envelopes: products and processes for residential buildings. Lilana researched Australian innovations in products and processes for building sustainable housing.
Professor Jose Kos
Jose is a Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidade Federal de Sanat Catarin. He has a Post-Doctorate from the Sustainable Building Research Centre, University of Wollongong and was a member of the board of the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (ANPARQ). He frequently participates in scientific committees of recognized international conferences in the area of Architecture, Urbanism and Digital Media and is an ad-hoc consultant for CNPq, CAPES, FAPESP, FAPERJ, FAPESC, FONCyT (Argentina), CONICYT (Chile), FWO Research Foundation ( Belgium).
Professor Feng Xu
Feng Xu is a Professor and Vice Dean from School of Architecture, Hunan University, China. He is also Vice chairman of Hunan Green Building Council, Member of Hunan Institute of Architects, Member of Academic Committee of Hunan University. As a Principal Investigator, he has been responsible for more than 10 research projects, including 1 project of the National Science & Technology Support Major Program of the 11th Five-year Plan, 2 sub-projects of the National Science & Technology Major Program of the 12th Five-year Plan. His research interests mostly lies at Design Method and Appraisal of Green Building, Integrated Design on Rural Residential Building and Multidisciplinary Approach to Curriculum Development in Sustainable Built Environment.
Associate Professor Jin Zhou
Jin Zhou is an associate Professor from College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, China, Vice secretary-general of Hunan Green Building Council. He received his PhD degree in Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2005. Before joining SBRC as a visiting research fellow, he has worked for 11 years in Hunan University. His research interests mostly lies on assessment and improvement of building thermal environment, analysis and optimization of GCHP system, and Green Building assessment.