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WASM: MECE Executive Team

Name	Title
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Mark Buntine	Head of School
Mrs Sarah Grieve	School Business Manager
Associate Professor Tejas Bhatelia	Deputy Head of School – Chemical Engineering
Associate Professor Ali Saeedi	Deputy Head of School – Energy Engineering
Associate Professor Laurence Dyer	Deputy Head of School – Metallurgical Engineering
Associate Professor Waqar Asad	Deputy Head of School – Mining Engineering
Associate Professor Kod Pojtanabuntoeng	Chevron-Woodside Chair in Materials & Corrosion Engineering
Professor Peta Ashworth OAM	Director – Curtin Insitute for Energy Transition
Associate Professor Richard Alorro	Director, Global Initiatives
Associate Professor Bogale Tadesse	Director, Graduate Research
Associate Professor Masood Mostofi	Director, Industry Engagement
Professor Klaus Regenauer Lieb	Director, Research
Associate Professor Dimple Quyn	Director, Teaching and Learning
Damien Palermo	Director, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

Chemical Engineering

Name	Title
Associate Professor Tejas Bhatelia	Deputy Head of School – Chemical Engineering
Associate Professor Hari Vuthaluru	Associate Professor and Discipline Lead
Dr Arash Arami-Niya	Lecturer
Dr Chunyan Fan	Senior Lecturer
Dr Gordon Ingram	Senior Lecturer
Professor Shaomin Liu	Professor and ARC Future Fellow
Mr Yu Long	Research Associate
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
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Mark Buntine	Interim Director
Associate Professor Kod Pojtanabuntoeng	Woodside-Chevron Chair in Materials & Corrosion Engineering
Mr Yousuf Abdulwahhab	Research Assistant
Mr Ammar Al Helal	Research Associate
Dr Sam Bakhtiari	Research Fellow
Ms Hayley Coulson	Technical Operations Coordinator
Dr Farzaneh Farivar	Research Fellow
Mr Varun Ghodkay	Senior Research Officer
Ms Mayra Gualteros Vanegas	Research Assistant
Mr Darwin Hartono	Research Assistant
Mr Naveed Hassan	Research Assistant
Ms Adeeba Hussain	Research Assistant
Mr Ruiliang Liu	Research Associate
Dr Arun Matthew	Research Associate
Dr Ibukun Oluwoye	Research Fellow
Mr Fernando Perozo Cediel	Research Assistant
Mr Peng Qin	Research Associate
Mr Esteban Rodoni	Research Associate
Malwattage Chandramalika Rukmali Peiris	Technical Operations Coordinator
Dr Silvia Salgar Chaparro	Research Associate
Ms Yurany Sanchez Thomas	Research Assistant
Dr Thaneshan Sapanathan	Research Fellow
Dr Erika Suarez Rodriguez	Research Associate
Dr Nicholas Tan	Research Associate
Ms Johanna Tarazona Acero	Research Associate
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

Energy Engineering

Name	Title
Associate Professor Ali Saeedi	Deputy Head of School – Energy Engineering 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

Mineral and Energy Economics

Name	Title
Associate Professor Ali Saeedi	Deputy Head of School – Energy Engineering
Dr Sakshi Anderson	Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor Eric Lilford	Associate Professor and Discipline Lead
Associate Professor Bryan Maybee	Associate Professor

Metallurgy

Name	Title
Associate Professor Laurence Dyer	Deputy Head of School – Metallurgical Engineering and Discipline Lead
Dr Boris Albijanic	Senior Lecturer
Professor Chris Aldrich	Chair Process Systems Engineering
Dr Richard Alorro	Senior Lecturer
Dr Jane Beh	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Sheila Devasahayam	Senior Lecturer
Professor Jaques Eksteen	Chair Extractive Metallurgy
Dr Jonah Gamutan	Lecturer
Dr Elsayed Oraby	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Bogale Tadesse	Lecturer

Gold Technology Group

Name	Title
Associate Professor Laurence Dyer	Interim Director
Dr Boris Albijanic	Senior Lecturer
Dr Erica Avelar	Research Engineer
Dr Emmanuel Baawuah	Research Engineer
Ms Karen Barbetti	Project Hydrometallurgist
Dr Bona Lim	Senior Research Officer
Mrs Irlina Winata	Research Assistant

Mining

Name	Title
Associate Professor Waqar Asad	Deputy Head of School – Mining Engineering and Discipline Lead
Dr George Barakos	Lecturer
Dr Ping Chang	Lecturer
Dr Roohollah Shirani Faradonbeh	Lecturer
Dr Apurna Ghosh	Senior Lecturer
Dr Danqi Li	Senior Lecturer
Dr Mohammadali Sepehri	Lecturer
Dr Phillip Stothard	Senior Lecturer
Professor Erkan Topal	Professor

Mining Rock Mechanics Group

Name	Title
Associate Professor Waqar Asad	Deputy Head of School – Mining Engineering and Discipline Lead
Professor Ernesto Villaescusa	Professor
Pat Hogan	Research Engineer

Visitors and Adjuncts

Name	Title
Dr Md Amanullah	Adjunct Professor
Professor Ha-Ming Ang	Emeritus Professor
Professor Afrooz Barnoush	Visiting 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
Mr Ushan De Zoysa	Research Officer
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
Professor Brian Kinsella	Professor
Dr Madhukar Onkarnath Garg	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
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 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
Dr Mobin Salasi	Senior Research Fellow
Associate Professor Tushar Sen	Adjunct Associate Professor
Professor Raj Sharma	Adjunct Professor
Associate Professor Nixon Saw	Associate 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
Mrs Sarah Grieve	School Business Manager
Ms Maria Boughton	Administrative Officer
Ms Tanya Jones	Research and Finance Lead
Mr Damien Palermo	Project Officer
Mrs Avryl Pusey	Administrative Officer
Ms Nita Russell	Administrative Officer
Ms Danielle Thompson	Industry Liaison Coordinator