Professor Mia Woodruff
Mia Woodruff has more than 20 years experience in biomedical engineering. She is as an internationally renowned expert in tissue engineering and biofabrication, with extensive experience in all aspects of biomaterial scaffold fabrication techniques, pre-clinical models and histological analysis.
Associate Professor Sara Couperthwaite
Sara Couperthwaite's research focuses on the advancement of sustainable technologies, with an emphasis on recycling wastewater and waste residues produced by industry for the development of new materials and the optimisation of plant operations.
Distinguished Professor Dietmar W Hutmacher
Distinguished Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher is internationally recognised for his research in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, advanced additive biomanufacturing and soft robotics, including the use of patient-specific 3D-printed scaffolds to repair bone and other tissue.
Dr Laura Bray
Laura Bray is a senior lecturer at QUT and deputy director of the ARC Training Centre for Cell and Tissue Engineering Technologies. She was awarded the inaugural Prime Minister’s Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Postdoctoral Award, which is awarded to only one woman in Australia.
Associate Professor Niko Suenderhauf
Associate Professor Niko Suenderhauf conducts research in robotic vision at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. His research focuses on scene understanding and how robots can learn to perform complex tasks that require navigation and interaction with objects, the environment, and humans.
Professor Michael Milford
Professor Michael Milford conducts interdisciplinary research at the boundary between robotics, neuroscience and computer vision and is the Joint Centre Director of QUT's Centre for Robotics.
Professor Felipe Gonzalez
Felipe Gonzalez has more than 20 years of experience developing drones for remote sensing. He leads the Airborne Systems Lab and is co-lead for Perception and Localisation research program at the Centre for Robotics. He has received five innovation awards and leads several ARC and Microsoft AI for Earth grant projects.
Professor Tommy Chan
Within the broad field of structural engineering, Professor Tommy Chan’s main research interests include structural dynamics, bridge design and construction, weigh-in-motion studies, damage detection and structural health monitoring. He’s currently researching how to mitigate vehicle crashes into masonry buildings and developing ways intelligent structures can self-evaluate deterioration.
Professor Mahen Mahendran
Professor Mahen Mahendran is an in structural engineering expert with a special interest in wind and fire engineering. He leads QUT’s Wind and Fire Engineering Lab which offers full scale testing facilities for low-rise buildings under wind loads, air-box facilities to test cladding systems, and fire testing facilities for beams, columns, walls and floors.
Dr Tatheer Zahra
Dr Tatheer Zahra’s vision is to promote innovative and sustainable engineering materials in construction. Her main research interests are structural masonry and auxetic materials that can flex when force is applied. She has been investigating the performance of interlocking mortarless masonry under various loading conditions and is working with Standards Australia on design guidelines for these materials.
