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Learning and teachingScience & EngineeringWA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering

Our people

WASM:MECE senior staff

Name	Title
Professor Michael Hitch	Head of School
Professor Brett Harris	Deputy Head of School
Associate Professor Mofazzal Hossain	Deputy Head of School
Ms Tanya Chambers	School Business Manager
Ms Sabina Shugg	Director, Kalgoorlie Campus
Dr Hussein Znad	Director,Graduate Research
Professor Ali Saeedi	Director,Learning and Teaching

Chemical engineering

Name	Title

Dr Dimple Quyn	Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead
Dr Arash Arami-Niya	Lecturer
Assoc Prof Ahmed Barifcani	Associate Professor
Dr Jane Beh	Research Fellow
Dr Tejas Bhatelia	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Chunyan Fan	Lecturer
Dr Gordon Ingram	Senior Lecturer
Dr Sui Boon Liaw	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Prof Shaomin Lu	Professor and ARC Future Fellow
Dr Luke McElroy	Research Associate
Dr Chi Phan	Senior Lecturer
Dr Milin Shah	Lecturer
Prof Zongping Shao	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Dr Biao Sun	Research Fellow
Prof Moses Tade	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Dr Ranjeet Utikar	Associate Professor
Assoc Prof Hari Vuthaluru	Associate Professor
Prof Hongwei Wu	Professor
Dr Hong Mei Yao	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Yun Yu	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Hussein Znad	Senior Lecturer

Curtin Corrosion Centre

Name	Title

Prof Mariano Iannuzzi	Director, Chevron Woodside Chair in Corrosion Engineering
Mrs Hoda Ehsani	Research Officer
Mr Varun Ghodkay	Senior Research Officer
Dr Yang Hou	Research Associate
Dr Katerina Lepkova	Senior Research Fellow
Mr Yu Long	Technical Officer
Dr Mobin Salasi	Research Fellow
Ms Fenny Kho	Research Assistant
Dr Laura Machuca Suarez	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Kod Pojtanabuntoeng	Senior Lecturer
Dr Ke Wang	Research Associate

Drilling Mechanics Group

Name	Title
Dr Thomas Richard	Senior Research Fellow
Mr Andrew Wurst	Research Officer

Mineral and Energy Economics

Name	Title
Assoc Prof Bryan Maybee	Associate Professor and Discipline Lead
Assoc Prof Eric Lilford	Associate Professor
Mr John Karasinski	Associate Lecturer

Fuels and Energy Technology Institute

Name	Title
Professor Hongwei Wu	Interim Director
Prof San Ping Jiang	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Mr Omid Kavianipour	Research Associate
Mr Yu Liu	Research Associate

Exploration Geophysics

Name	Title
Prof Brett Harris	Professor and Discipline Lead
Prof Andrej Bona	Professor
Dr Michael Carson	Research Fellow
Prof Boris Gurevich	Professor
Mr Murray Hehir	Technician
Prof Maxim Lebedev	Professor
Dr Vassili Mikhaltsevitch	Senior Research Fellow
Mr Minh Hoang Nguyen	Research Fellow
Dr Andrew Pethick	Research Fellow
Prof Roman Pevzner	Professor
Mr Pavel Shashkin	Research Fellow
Dr Konstantin Tertyshnikov	Research Fellow
Mr Robert Verstandig	Senior Technologist
Dr Stephanie Vialle	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Sinem Yavuz	Research Fellow
Mr Alexey Yurikov	Research Fellow
Mr Sasha Ziramov	Lecturer

Gold Technology Group

Name	Title
Ms Karen Barbetti	Project Hydrometallurgist
Mr Jeff McGrath	Research Assistant
Dr Teresa McGrath	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Elsayed Oraby	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Alireza Rabieh	Research Associate
Mrs Irlina Winata	Research Assistant

Metallurgical Engineering

Name	Title
Dr Laurence Dyer	Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead
Dr Boris Albijanic	Senior Lecturer
Dr Richard Alorro	Senior Lecturer
Prof Jaques Eksteen	Chair Extractive Metallurgy
Dr Bogale Tadesse	Lecturer

Mining Engineering

Name	Title
Assoc Prof Waqar Asad	Associate Professor
Dr Ping Chang	Associate Lecturer
Dr Apurna Ghosh	Lecturer
Dr Hyong Doo Jang	Lecturer
Prof Erkan Topal	Professor
Dr Danqi Li	Lecturer

Mining Rock Mechanics Group

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

Petroleum Engineering

Name	Title
Assoc Prof Mofazzal Hossain	Associate Professor and Discipline Lead
Dr Christopher Lagat	Lecturer
Dr Masood Mostofi	Senior Lecturer
Prof Reza Rezaee	Professor
Assoc Prof Ali Saeedi	Associate Professor
Dr Mohammad Sarmadivaleh	Senior Lecturer
Dr Sam Xie	Lecturer

Visitors and Adjuncts

Name	Title
Dr Md Amanullah	Adjunct Professor
Prof Ha-Ming Ang	Emeritus Professor
Prof Afrooz Barnoush	Visiting Professor
Mr Yashveersingh Boyjoo	Visiting Academic
Dr Miroslav Brajanovski	Adjunct Research Fellow
Mr Michael Brameld	Adjunct Professor
Prof George Danko	Fullbright Fellow
Prof Roland De Marco	Adjunct Professor
Prof Simon Dominy	Adjunct Professor
Dr Christian Dupuis	Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Ela Eroglu	Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Prof Brian Evans	Adjunct Professor
Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick	Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Maria Forsyth	Adjunct Professor
Prof Neil Foster	John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor
Dr Robert Galvin	University Adjunct
Dr Madhukar Onkarnath Garg	Adjunct Professor
Prof Vladimir Golovanevskiy	Adjunct Professor
Mr Warren Green	Visiting Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Cedric Griffiths	Adjunct Professor
Prof Eric Grimsey	Emeritus Professor
Assoc Prof 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
Assoc Prof Don Ibana	Adjunct Associate Professor
Prof Stefan Iglauer	Visiting Adjunct
Prof Roy Johnsen	Visiting Professor
Prof Ifan Jones	Emeritus Professor
Dr Jyeshtharaj Bhalchandra Joshi	Adjunct Professor
Dr Mariano Kappes	Adjunct Professor
Mr Kanet Katchasuwanmanee	Adjunct Professor
Prof 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
Luis Machuca	Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Dr Ian MacLeod	Adjunct Professor
Prof Philip Maxwell	Emeritus Professor
Assoc Prof Nicoleta Maynard	Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Van Cuong Nguyen	Adjunct Research Fellow
Mr Michel Nzikou Mamboukou	Adjunct Research Associate
Dr Louisa O’Connor	Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Prof Ryan O’Hayre	Visiting Professor
Dr Moreica Pabbruwe	Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Donald Pridmore	Adjunct Associate Professor
Prof Markus Reuter	Adjunct Professor: Recycling
Prof Colin Roberts	Adjunct Professor
Assoc Prof Tushar Sen	Adjunct Associate Professor
Prof Raj Sharma	Adjunct Professor
Dr Huangang Shi	Visiting Adjunct
Rabbi Richard Sonnenfeld	Fulbright Fellow
Prof Sam Spearing	Adjunct Professor
Prof David Spottiswood	Emeritus Professor
Dr Hongqi Sun	Visiting Professor
Dr Adel Vatandoost	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Jeffrey Vaughan	Adjunct Professor
Prof 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 Surudee Bunpitakgate	Teaching Support Officer
Ms Aimee Calkin	Teaching Support Officer
Miss Ruby Lo	Teaching Support Officer
Mrs Lana McQueen	Administrative Officer
Mr Randall Ng	Teaching Support Coordinator
Mrs Avryl Pusey	Administrative Officer
Ms Danielle Thompson	Industry Liaison Coordinator
Ms Josie Boland	Administrative Officer
Mr Damien Palermo	Project Officer

Contact us

Curtin Connect

WASM-MECEAdministration@curtin.edu.au
Curtin Kalgoorlie Campus: (08) 9088 6170
Curtin Perth Campus: (08) 9266 9266

Address:: Curtin Kalgoorlie Campus: Kalgoorlie Campus: 117 Egan Street, Kalgoorlie WA 6430 Building 701.101
Address:: Curtin Perth Campus: Kent Street, Bentley WA 6102 Building 204.406