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Dean, Faculty of Science
Professor Marcel Dinger
Marcel Dinger is Professor of Genome Biology and Dean of Science at the University of Sydney. He has 22 years' experience in genomics as both an academic and entrepreneur.
In addition to his research career, Marcel is co-founder of four start-ups in biotechnology and IT. He is a board director of Pryzm Health, a digital health enterprise focused on optimising patient care by empowering physicians with AI-based clinical decision support technology, and GenieUs, a genomics and machine-learning technology start-up dedicated to finding new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. He is President and Executive Committee Chair of the Australasian Genomics Technologies Association (AGTA), the principal body for the promotion of genomics research and technologies in Australasia.
Marcel served as Head of School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at UNSW Sydney from 2019 to 2022 and is a former Director of the governance board of National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG), an ANU-based centre focused on using genomics to improve the health and well-being of Australia's First Peoples, and former Director of Scientia Clinical Research, a world-class clinical trials facility with a focus on early stage clinical research.
- General Manager, Faculty of Science (Interim)
Veronica Boulton
Associate Deans
- Associate Dean (Education)
Professor Michael Wheatland - Associate Dean (Indigenous Strategy and Services)
Dr Jordan Pitt
- Associate Dean (Research)
Professor Kate Jolliffe - Associate Dean (Research Education)
Associate Professor Damian Birney
- Associate Dean (Student Life)
Associate Professor Sanaa Zaki
- Associate Dean (Strategic Partnerships and External Engagement, SPEE)
Associate Professor Girish Lakhwani
- School of Chemistry
Professor Peter Rutledge - School of Geosciences
Professor Neil Coe - School of History and Philosophy of Science
Professor Dominic Murphy - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Professor Jennifer Potts - School of Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Dingxuan Zhou
- School of Physics
Professor Tara Murphy - School of Psychology
Professor Ben Colagiuri - Sydney School of Veterinary Science
Professor Jacqui Norris
Academic Leads
- Honours
Associate Professor Robert Marangell
- Dalyell
Dr Toby Hudson - Work Integrated Learning
Dr Sabrina Lomax
Undergraduate Degree and Stream Coordinators
- Bachelor of Agricultural Science
Associate Professor Stephen Cattle - Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Advanced Studies, and Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Advanced)
Associate Professor Timothy Newsome - Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Animal and Veterinary Bioscience) and Bachelor of Veterinary Biology
Professor Simon De Graaf - Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Food and Agribusiness)
Associate Professor Thomas Roberts - Bachelor of Science (Health) and Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Health)
Dr Maree Milross
- Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science
Dr Daniela Helbig (Science major) and Dr Benjamin Miller (Arts major)
- Bachelor of Science (Medical Science) and Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Medical Science)
Professor Philip Poronnik - Bachelor of Psychology and Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)
Dr Daniel Costa - Bachelor of Wildlife Conservation (Taronga)
Dr Emma Thompson
Postgraduate Program Directors
- Agriculture and Environment
Associate Professor Daniel Tan - Clinical Psychology
Associate Professor Maree Abbott - Coaching Psychology
Associate Professor Sean O'Connor
- Environmental Science
Dr Rebecca Hamilton - Environmental Science and Law
Dr Rebecca Hamilton - Marine Science and Management
Associate Professor Eleanor Bruce - Mathematical Sciences
Dr Oded Yacobi - Medical Physics
Professor Annette Haworth - Sustainability
Professor Manfred Lenzen - Veterinary Clinical Studies
Associate Professor Andrea Harvey
- Veterinary Medicine
Associate Professor Bianca Waud and Associate Professor Natalie Courtman-Kalms
- Education (Interim)
Catherine Wakefield - Executive Services
Natalie Downing
- Partner Engagement and Outreach
Kristin Anderson - Research and Research Training
Dr Sarah Brecknock - Technical Operations
Jody Cutler
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