People

Directorate

Scientia Professor Del Favero

Executive Director:

• Scientia Prof Dennis Del Favero Scientia Professor, Chair Professor of Digital Innovation, UNSW Art & Design

Co-Directors:

• Prof Claude Sammut: Head, Autonomous Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science & Engineering, UNSW Engineering
• Prof Steven Sherwood: ARC Laureate Fellow | Director, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Science
• Dr Caroline Wake, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Faculty of Arts and Social Science

Centre Fellows

Professorial Fellows:

• A/Prof Tomasz Bednarz
• Emeritus Prof Neil Brown
• Prof Maurice Pagnucco

Adjunct Professors:

• Michael Scott-Mitchell: Director, Goblin Films
• Kip Williams: Artistic Director, Sydney Theatre Company

Visiting Professorial Research Fellows:

• Prof Wolfgang Tschapeller: Director, Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
• Prof Peter Weibel: CEO, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Visiting Professors:

• Prof Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Lincoln University

Visiting Research Fellows:

• Dr Timothy Barker: Lecturer, Digital Media, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Robin Chow, Lead Software Architect,Trazepp
• Ardrian Hardjono, Founder, FollowApp Care
• Dr Stephen Sewell: Head, Writing for Performance, NIDA

Academic Research Fellows:

• Dr Mohammad Obaid

Post-Doctoral Fellows:

• Dr Baden Pailthorpe
• Dr Denise Thwaites
• Dr Susanne Thurow
• Dr Andrew Yip

Centre Steering Committee

Deans: UNSW

• Prof Susan Dodds (Arts & Social Science)
• Prof Ross Harley (Chair) (Art & Design)
• Prof Mark Hoffman (Engineering)
• Prof Emma Johnston (Science)
• Lynn Greenwood (Faculty Manager, Art & Design)
• Kate Cherry (Director/CEO, NIDA: National Institute of Dramatic Arts)

Centre Staff

Technical Systems Architect: Alex Ong

Immersive Systems Engineer: TBA

Labs

AVIE-SC Lab (EPICentre)

Director: Prof Dennis Del Favero

Immersive Systems Lab

Technical Director: Alex Ong

Intelligent Environments Lab

Director: Prof Claude Sammut

Ultra-High Resolution Scanning Lab

Director: Prof Dennis Del Favero

Centre Commercial Arm

Immersive Realisation Pty Ltd: Damian Leonard (Director)