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Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Assistant

  1. Dr Hilary Hunt. Postdoctoral research fellow, 2025-present.
  2. Dr James Bennett. Postdoctoral research fellow, 2024-present.
  3. Dr Nizhum Rahman. Research assistant, 2022-2023. After this position Nizhum commenced a postdoctoral research position at the University of Michigan.
  4. Dr Ryan Murphy. Postdoctoral research fellow, 2021-2023. After this position Ryan commenced a postdoctoral research position at the University of Melbourne, and then commenced a tenure track position at Adelaide University.
  5. Dr Alex Browning. Postdoctoral research fellow, 2021-2022. After this position Alex secured commenced a Hooke Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford, and then commenced a tenure track position at the University of Melbourne.
  6. Dr Alex Tam. Postdoctoral research fellow, 2021-2022. After this position Alex commenced a tenure track position at Adelaide University and then secured an ARC DECRA.
  7. Dr David Warne. Postdoctoral research fellow, 2020-2021. After this position David commenced a tenure track position at QUT and then secured an ARC DECRA fellowship.
  8. Dr Nabil Fadai. Postdoctoral research fellow, 2018-2020. After this position Nabil commenced a tenure track position at the Univeristy of Nottingham.
  9. Dr Tarunendu Mapder. Postdoctoral research fellow, 2018-2020. After this position Tarunendu commenced a postdoctoral research position at Indiana University.
  10. Dr Wang Jin. Postdoctoral research fellow, 2018-2021. After this position Jin commenced a postdoctoral research position at the University of New South Wales.
  11. Mr Alex Browning. Research assistant, 2017-2017. After this position Alex commenced a PhD at QUT.
  12. Dr Wang Jin. Research assistant, 2017-2018. After this position Jin commenced as a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow at QUT.
  13. Dr Catherine Penington. Postdoctoral research fellow, 2015-2017. After this position Catherine commenced a tenure track position at Macquarie University.
  14. Ms Parvathi Haridas. Research assistant, 2012-2014. After this position Parvathi commenced a PhD at QUT.

Doctor of Philosophy

  1. Ms Wei Fan. Doctor of Philosophy. 2026-present. Interpretable discrete models of biological tissue growth and deformation.
  2. Ms Yiming Xu. Doctor of Philosophy. 2026-present. Characterising the morphodynamics of in vivo corneal immune cells.
  3. Ms Yuuka Foo. Doctor of Philosophy. 2025-present. New mathematical models of biological tissue mechanics.
  4. Mr Adarshkrishnan (Krishnan) Rajakumar. Doctor of Philosophy. 2025-present. Interpreting gene function using gene expression data, mathematical modelling and model selection.
  5. Mr Shahak Kuba. Doctor of Philosophy. 2023-present. Mathematical models of tissue growth in constrained geometries.
  6. Mr Yihan Liu. Doctor of Philosophy. 2022-present. Likelihood-based inference, identifiability and prediction for random walk walk models in mathematical biology.
  7. Dr Yifei Li. Doctor of Philosophy. 2018-2022. The role of nonlinear diffusion in mathematical biology. After graduation Yifei commenced working as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harbin Institute of Technology.
  8. Dr Zachary Welsh. Doctor of Philosophy. 2018-2021. A multiscale approach to moisture diffusivity for drying plant-based food materials. After graduation Zach continued working at QUT as a postdoctoral research fellow.
  9. Dr Maud El-Hachem. Doctor of Philosophy. 2018-2021. Mathematical models of biological invasion. Maud recieved the 2021 AustMS WIMSIG Maryam Mirzakhani Award. After graduation Maud took up a position as a research fellow in Biological Mathematics at CSIRO.
  10. Dr Jesse Sharp. Doctor of Philosophy. 2018-2021. Numerical methods for optimal control and parameter estimation in the life sciences. After graduation Jesse commenced working as a postdoctoral research fellow jointly with the Australian Institute of Marine Science and QUT.
  11. Dr Ryan Murphy. Doctor of Philosophy. 2018-2021. Mechanochemical and experimental models in mathematical biology. After graduation Ryan continued working at QUT as a postdoctoral research fellow.
  12. Dr Alexander (Alex) Browning. Doctor of Philosophy. 2018-2021. Model complexity in biology and bioengineering. Alex won an outstanding thesis award, meaning that his thesis was ranked in the top 5% of QUT PhD theses in 2022. After graduation Alex continued working at QUT as a postdoctoral research fellow.
  13. Dr Anudeep Surendran. Doctor of Philosophy. 2017-2020. Stochastic and continuum descriptions of population dynamics with spatial structure. After graduation Anudeep took up a position as a research fellow at the University of Montreal.
  14. Dr Sean Vittadello. Doctor of Philosophy. 2016-2020. Mathematical models for cell migration and proliferation informed by visualisation of the cell cycle. After graduation Sean took up a position as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne.
  15. Dr David Warne. Doctor of Philosophy. 2015-2019. Computational inference in mathematical biology: methodological developments and applications. David won an outstanding thesis award, meaning that his thesis was ranked in the top 5% of QUT PhD theses in 2020. After graduation David took up a position as a research fellow at QUT.
  16. Dr Oleksii (Alex) Matsiaka. Doctor of Philosophy. 2015-2019. New mathematical models for cell biology assays incorporating realistic cell size dynamics. After graduation Alex took up a position as a research fellow at the University of Queensland.
  17. Dr Parvathi Haridas. Doctor of Philosophy. 2014-2017. In vitro characterisation of melanoma progression in a melanoma skin equivalent model. After graduation Parvathi took up a position as a research scientist at Envoi Pathology.
  18. Dr Wang Jin. Doctor of Philosophy. 2014-2017. Investigating the reproducibility of in vitro cell biology assays using mathematical models. Jin won an outstanding thesis award, meaning that his thesis was ranked in the top 5% of QUT PhD theses in 2017. After graduation Jin took up a position as a research fellow at QUT.
  19. Dr Stuart Johnston. Doctor of Philosophy. 2013-2017. Mathematical models for quantifying collective cell behaviour. After graduation Stuart took up a position as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne where he was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award. In 2026 ANZIAM awarded Stuart the JH Michell medal for outstanding new researchers in applied mathematics.
  20. Dr Adam Ellery. Doctor of Philosophy. 2013-2016. Modelling transport through biological environments that contain obstacles. After graduation Adam took up a position as a computational scientist at the University of Queensland.
  21. Dr Katrina Treloar. Doctor of Philosophy. 2012-2015. Mathematical models for collective cell spreading. After graduation Katrina took up a position at Suncorp bank.

Master of Philosophy

  1. Mr Joshua Rottenberry. Master of Philosophy. 2026-present. Mathematial modelling, parameter inference and model-based prediction of 3D tissue growth with controllable gradients.
  2. Mr Daniel VandenHeuvel. Master of Philosophy. 2022-2023. New mathematical and statistical methods for tissue engineering. After graduation Daniel commenced a PhD at Imperial College London.
  3. Mr Luke Filippini. Master of Philosophy. 2022-2023. Surrogate models for diffusive transport in radially-symmetric media. After graduation Luke commenced a PhD at QUT.
  4. Mr Jonah Klowss. Master of Philosophy. 2020-2021. A stochastic mathematical model of 4D tumour spheroids with real-time fluorescent cell cycle labelling. After graduation Jonah commenced a PhD at the University of St Andrews.
  5. Mr Michael Carr. Master of Philosophy. 2020-2021. Estimating parameters of a stochastic cell invasion model with fluorescent cell cycle labelling using Approximate Bayesian Computation. After graduation Michael took up a position as a data analyst with RACQ.
  6. Ms Tamara Tambyah. Master of Philosophy. 2019-2020. A novel free boundary mathematical model of epithelial tissues with mechanobiological coupling. After graduation Tamara took up a position with the Department of Defence Science and Technology and commenced a PhD at Monash University.
  7. Ms Solene Hegarty-Cramer. Master of Philosophy. 2019-2020. Spatial control and cell guidance in evolving biological tissues. After graduation Solene took up a position at Boeing.
  8. Mr Sean McInerney. Master of Philosophy. 2017-2018. Parameterising continuum models of heat transfer in heterogeneous living skin using experimental data. After graduation Sean enrolled in a Master of Education degree to pursue a teaching career.
  9. Mr Alex Browning. Master of Philosophy. 2016-2017. Stochastic mathematical models of cell proliferation assays. After graduation Alex took up a position as a research assistant at Queensland University of Technology.