Our People

School Executive

Name	Position
Associate Professor Michael Barlow	Head of School (Acting)
Professor Andrey Miroshnichenko	Deputy Head of School
Ms Fiona Wright	School General Manager
Dr Neda Aboutorab	Deputy Head of School (Undergraduate Teaching)
Mrs Bronwyn Rust-Jones	Deputy Head of School (Postgraduate Teaching)
Associate Professor Sean O'Byrne	Deputy Head of School (Research)
Professor Hussein Abbass	Deputy Head of School (People)
Matthew Barrett	Engineering Manager (Operational) Acting
Shane Brandon	Engineering Manager (Strategic) Acting
Ms Bobby Matthews	Executive Assistant to the Head of School
Mr Jeffrey Steinacker	Manager (Acting), Administration Support Group

Teaching Coordinators

Undergraduate Coordinators

Name	Position
Dr Neda Aboutorab	Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dr Juan Escobedo-Diaz	Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Saber Elsayed	Computing and Cyber Security Program Coordinator
Dr Matt Woolley	CDF Program Coordinator
Dr Sridhar Ravi	Work Experience Coordinator
Dr Jianfeng Xue	Civil Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Jong-Leng Liow	Aeronautical Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Toby Boyson	Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Bianca Capra	Aviation Program and YoWIE Coordinator
Dr Andrey Alenin	Final Year UG Engineering Project Coordinator
Dr David Powell	Undergraduate Assessment coordinator
Associate Professor Warren Smith	Naval Architecture Program Coordinator

Postgraduate Coordinators

Name	Position
Associate Professor Frank den Hartog	Director of PG Studies
Dr Alireza Abbasi	PG Project Management Program Coordinator
Dr Huadong Mo	PG Systems Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Ripon Chakrabortty	PG Engineering Science and Decision Analytics Program Coordinator
Mr Charles Hoke	PG Capability Program Coordinator
Dr Melrose Brown	Space Program Coordinator
Dr Nour Moustafa	Master of Cyber Security Programs Coordinator
Dr Li (Lily) Qiao	Postgraduate Assessment Coordinator

Administration Coordinators

Name	Position
Associate Professor Harald Kleine	Facilities Coordinator
Dr Faycal Bouhafs	School Student Integrity Advisor
Dr Graham Wild	IT Coordinator
Dr Matthias Kramer	WHS Coordinator

Research Coordinators

Name	Position
Associate Professor Sean O'Byrne	Deputy Head of School (Research)
Dr Amar Khennane	Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Dr Daryl Essam	Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Daoyi Dong	Research Student Admissions and Scholarships Coordinator
Dr Fangbao Tian	Research Student Admissions and Scholarships Coordinator
Associate Professor Xiuping Jia	Research Reporting and Communication Coordinator
Dr Oleksandra Molloy	Human Research Ethics Coordinator

Technology Support Group Coordinators

Name	Position
Dr Trevor Wheatley	Laser Labs Coordinator

Michael Barlow

Head of School (Acting)

+61 2 5114 5119

m.barlow@adfa.edu.au

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Andrey Miroshnichenko

Deputy Head of School

+61 2 5114 5182

andrey.miroshnichenko@unsw.edu.au

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Advanced Electromagnetics
Hussein Abbass

Deputy Head of School (People) - Acting

+61 2 5114 5109

h.abbass@adfa.edu.au

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Neda Aboutorab

Deputy Head of School (Undergraduate Teaching)

+61 2 5114 5110

n.aboutorab@unsw.edu.au

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Sean O'Byrne

Deputy Head of School (Research)

+61 2 5114 5190

s.obyrne@adfa.edu.au

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Hypersonics & High Speed Flows

Fluid & Fluid-structure Interactions

Imaging
Bronwyn Rust-Jones

Deputy Head of School (Postgraduate Teaching)

+61466777013

b.jones@adfa.edu.au

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Systems Engineering
Fiona Wright

School General Manager

+61 2 5114 5224

f.wright@adfa.edu.au

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Alireza Abbasi

PG Project Management Program Coordinator

+61 2 5114 5108

a.abbasi@adfa.edu.au

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Project Management
Shadi Abpeikar

Postdoctoral Fellow

s.abpeikar@adfa.edu.au

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Erwin Adi

Research Fellow

e.adi@unsw.edu.au

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Intelligent Security
Aziz Ahmad

Electronics Engineer

+61 2 5114 5112

a.ahmad@adfa.edu.au

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Ali Ahrari

Research Associate

a.ahrari@unsw.edu.au

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Optimization & Design
Amany AKL

Research Associate

amany.mamdouh@unsw.edu.au

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Capability Systems Centre

Optimization & Design
Safat Al-Deen

Senior Lecturer- Civil Engineering

+61 2 5114 5113

s.al-deen@adfa.edu.au

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Sustainable Infrastructure
Sameer Alam

Visiting Fellow

s.alam@adfa.edu.au

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Andrey Alenin

Final Year UG Engineering Project Coordinator

+61 2 5114 5114

a.alenin@adfa.edu.au

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Space Research

Space Situational Awareness

Imaging

Optimization & Design
Ismail Ali

Research Associate

ismail.ali@unsw.edu.au

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Capability Systems Centre

Optimization & Design
Richard Allum

Client Service Officer

+61 2 5114 5247

R.Allum@adfa.edu.au

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