Spinifex team members

Research team

Professor Alan Rowan

Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure)

Executive Institute Director, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
Senior Group Leader

Rowan Group
Dr Jan Lauko

Centre Manager

Advanced Spinifex Biofutures Materials Centre
Dr Jitka Kochanek

Project Leader

Advanced Spinifex Biofutures Materials Centre
Dr Kenneth Andres Tryggestad

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Advanced Spinifex Biofutures Materials Centre
Dr Lorine Wilkinson

Research Partnership Manager

AIBN
Dr Alireza Hosseinmardi

Principal Research Technician

Advanced Spinifex Biofutures Materials Centre
Dr Pratheep Kumar Annamalai

Advance QLD Research Fellow

Advanced Spinifex Biofutures Materials Centre
Namratha Ganapathi

Masters Student

Advanced Spinifex Biofutures Materials Centre
Dr Abhishek Bajpai

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Advanced Spinifex Biofutures Materials Centre
Yunwei Wang

PhD student

Advanced Spinifex Biofutures Materials Centre

Collaborators

Prof Colin Saltmere

Mr Michael Lucas

Mr Patrick Murphy

Dr Maryam

Stakeholders and partners

The Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people through Bulugudu Ltd is an important partner of the Spinifex project. Prior to this, Spinifex had partnered with DAC from 2007-2021, before DAC became known as Bulugudu Ltd.