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WASM: MECE Senior Staff

Name	Title
Professor Michael Hitch	Head of School
Ms Tanya Chambers	School Business Manager
Associate Professor Ali Saeedi	Deputy Head of School
Ms Sabina Shugg	Director, Kalgoorlie Campus
Associate Professor Hussein Znad	Director, Graduate Research
Associate Professor Dimple Quyn	Director of Teaching and Learning
Dr Sinem Yavuz	Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Chemical Engineering

Name	Title
Associate Professor Hari Vuthaluru	Associate Professor and Discipline Lead
Dr Arash Arami-Niya	Lecturer
Associate Professor Ahmed Barifcani	Associate Professor
Dr Jane Beh	Research Fellow
Associate Professor Tejas Bhatelia	Associate Professor
Dr Chunyan Fan	Senior Lecturer
Dr Gordon Ingram	Senior Lecturer
Professor Shaomin Liu	Professor and ARC Future Fellow
Dr Luke McElroy	Research Associate
Associate Professor Masood Mostofi	Associate Professor
Professor Vishnu Pareek	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Associate Professor Chi Phan	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Dimple Quyn	Associate Professor and Director of Teaching and Learning
Dr Milin Shah	Senior Lecturer
Professor Zongping Shao	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Dr Biao Sun	Research Fellow
Professor Moses Tade	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Associate Professor Ranjeet Utikar	Associate Professor
Professor Hongwei Wu	Professor
Dr Hong Mei Yao	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Yun Yu	Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor Hussein Znad	Associate Professor

Curtin Corrosion Centre

Name	Title
Professor Mariano Iannuzzi	Chevron-Woodside Chair in Materials & Corrosion Engineering
Mr Ammar Al Helal	Research Associate
Dr Sam Bakhtiari	Research Fellow
Mr Juan Diaz	University Associate
Mrs Hoda Ehsani	University Associate
Dr Hanan Farhat	University Associate
Mr Varun Ghodkay	Senior Research Officer
Dr Carol Glover	University Associate
Professor Vladimir Golovanevskiy	Professor
Mr Darwin Hartono	Research Assistant
Associate Professor Katerina Lepkova	Associate Professor
Mr Alex Liso	Research Assistant
Mr Yu Long	Senior Research Officer
Dr Ibukun Oluwoye	Research Fellow
Associate Professor Kod Pojtanabuntoeng	Associate Professor
Dr Zakaria Quadir	Senior Lecturer
Dr Mobin Salasi	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Silvia Salgar Chaparro	Research Associate
Ms Yurany Sanchez Thomas	Research Assistant
Dr Thaneshan Sapanathan	Research Fellow
Dr Nicholas Tan	Research Associate
Ms Johanna Tarazona Acero	Research Associate
Mr Francisco Javier Vouilloz	Engineer (Materials)
Dr Ke Wang	Research Associate
Ms Marisa Yookhong	Research Assistant

Drilling Mechanics Group

Name	Title
Associate Professor Masood Mostofi	Group Lead
Dr Thomas Richard	Senior Research Fellow
Mr Andrew Wurst	Research Officer

Mineral and Energy Economics

Name	Title
Associate Professor Eric Lilford	Associate Professor and Discipline Lead
Associate Professor Bryan Maybee	Associate Professor

Gold Technology Group

Name	Title
Ms Karen Barbetti	Project Hydrometallurgist
Mrs Irlina Winata	Research Assistant
Dr Erica Avelar	Research Engineer

Metallurgical Engineering

Name	Title
Associate Professor Laurence Dyer	Associate Professor and Discipline Lead
Dr Boris Albijanic	Senior Lecturer
Dr Richard Alorro	Senior Lecturer
Professor Jaques Eksteen	Chair Extractive Metallurgy
Dr Bogale Tadesse	Lecturer
Professor Chris Aldrich	Chair Process Systems Engineering
Dr Elsayed Oraby	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Sheila Devasahayam	Senior Lecturer

Mining Engineering

Name	Title
Associate Professor Waqar Asad	Associate Professor
Dr Ping Chang	Lecturer
Dr Apurna Ghosh	Senior Lecturer
Dr Hyong Doo Jang	Lecturer
Professor Erkan Topal	Professor
Dr Danqi Li	Senior Lecturer
Dr Roohollah Shirani Faradonbeh	Lecturer
Dr Mohammadali Sepehri	Lecturer
Dr George Barakos	Lecturer

Mining Rock Mechanics Group

Name	Title
Professor Ernesto Villaescusa	Professor
Mr Ushan De Zoysa	Research Officer
Pat Hogan	Research Engineer
Associate Professor Nixon Saw	Associate Professor

Petroleum Engineering

Name	Title
Associate Professor Ali Saeedi	Associate Professor and Discipline Lead
Associate Professor Mofazzal Hossain	Associate Professor
Dr Christopher Lagat	Lecturer
Professor Klaus Regenauer-Lieb	Professor and Director of Research
Professor Reza Rezaee	Professor
Associate Professor Mohammad Sarmadivaleh	Associate Professor
Dr Sam Xie	Senior Lecturer
Dr Sinem Yavuz	Senior Research Fellow and Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Visitors and Adjuncts

Name	Title
Dr Md Amanullah	Adjunct Professor
Professor Ha-Ming Ang	Emeritus Professor
Professor Afrooz Barnoush	Visiting Professor
Professor Andrej Bona	Professor
Mr Yashveersingh Boyjoo	Visiting Academic
Dr Miroslav Brajanovski	Adjunct Research Fellow
Mr Michael Brameld	Adjunct Professor
Professor George Danko	Fullbright Fellow
Professor Roland De Marco	Adjunct Professor
Professor Simon Dominy	Adjunct Professor
Dr Christian Dupuis	Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Ela Eroglu	Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Professor Brian Evans	Adjunct Professor
Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick	Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Maria Forsyth	Adjunct Professor
Professor Neil Foster	John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor
Dr Robert Galvin	University Adjunct
Dr Madhukar Onkarnath Garg	Adjunct Professor
Professor Vladimir Golovanevskiy	Adjunct Professor
Mr Warren Green	Visiting Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Cedric Griffiths	Adjunct Professor
Professor Eric Grimsey	Emeritus Professor
Associate Professor Xiaohong Gui	Visiting Associate Professor
Associate Professor Isao Hasegawa	Senior Visiting Research Fellow
Prof Jun-ichiro Hayashi	Adjunct Professor
Mr Junxian He	Adjunct Research Fellow
Associate Professor Don Ibana	Adjunct Associate Professor
Professor Stefan Iglauer	Visiting Adjunct
Professor San Ping Jiang	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Professor Roy Johnsen	Visiting Professor
Professor Ifan Jones	Emeritus Professor
Dr Jyeshtharaj Bhalchandra Joshi	Adjunct Professor
Dr Mariano Kappes	Adjunct Professor
Mr Kanet Katchasuwanmanee	Adjunct Professor
Professor Brian Kinsella	Emeritus Professor
Dr Alan Kop	Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Yevhen Kovalyshen	Visiting Academic
Mr Ashley Lansley	Visiting Adjunct Associate Professor
Professor Maxim Lebedev	Professor
Dr Xinyong Li	Visiting Professor
Dr Jian Liu	Visiting Associate Professor
Mr Yu Liu	Research Associate
Luis Machuca	Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Dr Ian MacLeod	Adjunct Professor
Mr Michel Nzikou Mamboukou	Adjunct Research Associate
Professor Philip Maxwell	Emeritus Professor
Associate Professor Nicoleta Maynard	Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Professor Teresa McGrath	Associate Professor
Dr Van Cuong Nguyen	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Louisa O’Connor	Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Professor Ryan O’Hayre	Visiting Professor
Dr Sheila Omar	Research Fellow
Dr Moreica Pabbruwe	Adjunct Associate Professor
Mr Fernando Perozo Cediel	Research Assistant
Dr Donald Pridmore	Adjunct Associate Professor
Professor Markus Reuter	Adjunct Professor: Recycling
Professor Colin Roberts	Adjunct Professor
Associate Professor Tushar Sen	Adjunct Associate Professor
Professor Raj Sharma	Adjunct Professor
Dr Huangang Shi	Visiting Adjunct
Rabbi Richard Sonnenfeld	Fulbright Fellow
Professor Sam Spearing	Adjunct Professor
Professor David Spottiswood	Emeritus Professor
Dr Hongqi Sun	Visiting Professor
Dr Adel Vatandoost	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Jeffrey Vaughan	Adjunct Professor
Professor Shaobin Wang	Adjunct Professor
Dr Nicholas Welham	Adjunct Professor: Lithium Processing
Dr Colin Wood	Adjunct Professor
Dr Guang Xu	Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Mr Xinyuan Xu	Visiting Adjunct
Mr Xianglin Yang	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Jie Yu	Adjunct Research Associate
Dr Yanping Zhu	Adjunct Research Associate

Professional staff

Name	Title
Ms Aimee Calkin	Project Coordinator
Mrs Lana McQueen	Administrative Officer
Mr Damien Palermo	Project Officer
Mrs Avryl Pusey	Administrative Officer
Ms Surudee Bunpitakgate	Teaching Support Officer
Miss Ruby Lo	Teaching Support Officer
Mr Randall Ng	Teaching Support Coordinator
Ms Danielle Thompson	Industry Liaison Coordinator