Our team

Future urban decision-making

Program leader: Professor Simone Taffe

Citizen capability and habitat futures — Dr Max Schleser

Urban resilience — Professor Niki Frantzeskaki

Climate change planning — Dr Megerssa Walo

Sustainable mobility design — Dr Ian Woodcock

Urban regeneration — Associate Professor Magnus Moglia

Healthy liveable cities — Associate Professor Clare Dyson

Urban epidemiology — Dr Manoj Chandrabose

Urban ecology ethnography — Dr Aisling Bailey

Nature-based solutions — Dr Stephen Glackin

Active neighbourhoods and healthy workplaces — Dr Nyssa Hadgraft

Equitable thriving cities — Associate Professor Andi Nygaard

Urban econometrics — Dr Trevor Kollmann

Indigenous placemaking — Dr Sam Edwards-Vandenhoek

Housing governance — Associate Professor Wendy Stone

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Future urban infrastructure 

Program leader: Professor Richard Manasseh

Integrated infrastructure systems — Dr Scott Rayburg

Energy harvesting — Associate Professor Justin Leontini

Microgrid stability — Associate Professor Weixiang Shen

Water and food harvesting — Associate Professor Monzur Imteaz

Materials harvesting — Associate Professor Akbar Rhamdhani

Digital fabrication and procurement — Professor Jay Sanjayan

Robots in construction — Mr Daniel Prohasky

Innovative building procurement — Associate Professor Palaneeswaran Ekambaram

Innovative building processes — Mr Canhui Chen

Innovative construction materials — Associate Professor Pat Rajeev

Smart skins for smart(er) cities — Dr Mehrnoush Latifi

Urban information modelling — Professor Marcus White

Building information modelling — Dr Sungkon Moon

City information modelling — Professor Ryszard Kowalczyk

Decision-making on ambient data — Associate Professor Mahnaz Shafiei

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Future urban mobility 

Program leader: Professor Hussein Dia

Intelligent transport — Dr Chris McCarthy

Network management and control — Associate Professor Bao Quoc Vo

Asset management — Dr Siva Chandrasekaran

Technology, sensors, communications and control systems — Dr Jiong Jin

Enhanced personal mobility — Associate Professor Prem Jayaraman

Modelling and simulation — Dr Irene Moser

Large scale optimisation — Professor Denny Meyer

Gamification — Dr Andreea Molnar

Predictive intelligence, traffic forecasting, AI and data analytics — Associate Professor Kai Qin

Agent-based traffic simulation and behavioural modelling — Dr Nicole Ronald

Disruptive mobility — Dr Hadi Ghaderi

Urban air mobility — Dr Matt Ebbatson 

Low/zero emissions transport solutions — Dr Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian

End-to-end freight solutions — Dr John Hopkins

Emerging modes of transport and autonomous shared mobility — Dr Sajjad Shafiei

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