Scientia Professor Staffan Kjelleberg
- Staffan received his PhD from the University of Gotenburg, Sweden in 1981, and came to the University of New South Wales in 1993 as Professor of Microbiology. He has a long-standing interest in environmental microbiology. He is a Scientia Professor - an academic distinction at UNSW that recognises outstanding research performance.
Professor Brett Neilan
- Brett received his PhD from UNSW in 1997 and completed two post-doctoral positions, at NASA and Humboldt University in Berlin. He returned to Australia to take up an ARC Post-Doctoral Fellowship whereupon he established his own research group at UNSW. He has since received Research and Professorial ARC Fellowships.
- Further information about Brett's research may be obtained from his lab website
Professor Rick Cavicchioli
- The broad theme of Rick's research is extremophiles and adaptation to extreme environments, and its main foci are cold adaptation in Antarctic archaea and low nutrient adaptation in marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacteria. A commercial arm of the work has developed technologies for generating unique extremozymes, called UnikZymes, which have enhanced properties useful in a broad range of industries. His research group also has interests in astrobiology and the origin of life, and the perplexing questions surrounding the lack of pathogenic archaea.
- Further information about Rick's research may be obtained from his lab website
