FFS Project Leaders - Future Food Systems

Assoc. Prof. James Brinkhoff

William Ngo — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 02:39:07 +0000

James received a PhD in electronic device modelling from Macquarie University in 2005. He then worked on an ARC linkage project, designing circuits for millimeter-wave communications. Among other subsequent positions, James worked with Broadcom for 5 years, designing radio frequency circuits for WiFi chips, some of which were used in Apple smartphones. In 2015, James moved into agriculture research, particularly focusing on wireless sensor networks and remote sensing for irrigation optimisation at Deakin University. He joined AARSC at UNE in 2019, where he is engaged in applied analytics of agricultural data from field measurements, satellites, and in-field sensors using statistical and machine learning methods. James is actively involved in a number of research projects including yield forecasting for macadamia growers, real-time analytics for rice industry applications such as fertiliser recommendations, water estimation and growth stage detection.

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Assoc. Prof. Simon Denman

William Ngo — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 02:16:09 +0000

Dr Simon Denman is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Simon actively researches in the fields of computer vision and machine learning, including action and event recognition, trajectory prediction, video analytics, biometrics, and medical signal processing. Simon has published over 140 papers in the areas of computer vision and machine learning, and co-leads the Applied Data Science research programme within the QUT Centre for Data Science.

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Dr Flávia Fayet-Moore

William Ngo — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:06:45 +0000

Dr Flávia Fayet-Moore, better known as Dr Fláv is a Brazilian-born, Canadian-raised, Australian-made keynote speaker, nutrition scientist, space nutritionist and entrepreneur. With a career spanning more than two decades, she has been at the forefront of what’s next in food and nutrition. With three degrees in nutrition (HBsc MNutrDiet, PhD), an alumna of the International Space University and CEO of FOODiQ Global, Dr Fláv brings her unique perspectives as a global citizen, business woman, and an active scientist to inspire people to open their minds to concepts that they have never imagined, to be ahead of the curve, to challenge the status quo, take action, and nurture the longest relationship they will ever have: the one with food.

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Dr Hope Johnson

William Ngo — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 05:11:03 +0000

Dr Hope Johnson is a socio-legal researcher in food and agricultural law, regulation and governance. She’s published on global governance of food systems as well as Australia’s regulation of food. Her work has been published in academic journals and used in policy making. Key themes in Hope’s research include sustainable diets, food labels, food and agricultural technologies, human rights and regulatory studies. Hope uses a mix of empirical and legal methods to explore how to regulate food systems to improve public health and environmental outcomes, and she draws on various areas of law related to food and agriculture including food standards, international trade law, intellectual property and environmental and planning law. Within this broader field, Hope’s research is currently focused on two areas (a) the regulation and politics of alternative proteins (b) food waste and related plastic packaging waste.

Hope is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research (DECRA) Fellow (DE230100135). Her project examines the regulation and politics of alternative proteins as a case study for advancing knowledge about how to govern food in ways that ensure public health and sustainability.

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Prof. Azharul Karim

William Ngo — Tue, 13 May 2025 03:43:52 +0000

Dr Azharul Karim is currently working as a Professor in the School of Mechanical, Medical & Process Engineering (MMPE), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the director of Advanced Drying and Sustainable Energy Research (ADSER) Group. His research is directed towards uncovering fundamental understanding of drying process by developing advanced multiscale and multiphase models using theoretical/computational and experimental methodologies.

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Dr Michelle Mak

William Ngo — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:08:28 +0000

Dr Michelle Mak is an Associate Lecturer in Horticultural Sciences, teaching Advanced Greenhouse Technology and similar subjects in the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs.

Dr Michelle Mak was elected as one of the new Directors of Protected Cropping Australia in early 2021. Protected Cropping Australia (PCA) is the peak industry body representing commercial hydroponic and greenhouse growers Australia wide.

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Assoc. Prof. Severine Mayere

William Ngo — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:16:07 +0000

Associate Professor – Discipline Lead, Built Environment, School of Architecture and Built Environment at Queensland University of Technology

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Dr Lisa Tam

William Ngo — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 03:17:25 +0000

Dr Lisa Tam is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor in the US system) in Advertising and Public Relations at the QUT Business School.

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Dr Ayesha Tulloch

William Ngo — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:59:32 +0000

Dr Ayesha Tulloch is a conservation decision scientist with a background in ecology and a passion for building knowledge and tools to address the world’s most pressing challenges of recovering biodiversity whilst maintaining human well-being in human-modified landscapes. It is important to Ayesha that her research is applicable and accessible to the people and organisations that make conservation decisions, and she takes a transdisciplinary approach to her research, drawing on a range of field and analytical skills, collaborations and professional experience to address real questions that address the global biodiversity crisis we are currently facing.

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Dr Yong Wang

William Ngo — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:03:46 +0000

Dr Yong Wang is Senior Lecturer with the School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney. Prior to joining UNSW, he was Research Fellow with Monash University, Clayton, Australia (2019-2020) and Research Scientist (Senior Engineer) with COFCO Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Beijing, China (2011-2019), including 6-month Australian Endeavour Fellowship with The University of Queensland in 2016. He got his PhD from joint program of China Agricultural University and University of California Davis in 2011. His research area includes food processing technology (drying, emulsion, encapsulation), food properties (rheological/thermal/mechanical properties), product developments (dairy, sauce, cereals, etc.), and human mimicking digestion system.

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