Our Team
Meet Our Team
We’re passionate about helping to improve food security, and sustain both livelihoods and biodiversity on a global scale.
Researchers
Prof. Lee Baumgartner
Dr John Conallin
Dr Katie Doyle
Dr Nathan Ning
Dr Wayne Robinson
Dr Amina Price
Dr Vu Vi An (An)
Dr Lalantha Senevirathna
Peter Thew
Dr Jennifer Bond
Dr Nicholas Pawsey
Dr Ivor Stuart
Dr Peta Jeffries
Dr Ana Horta
Students
Current
- Dwi Atminarso
PhD topic: The Impact of Perjaya Dam on biodiversity and livelihoods in the Komering River, Indonesia
- Elka Blackman
PhD topic: Understanding gene flow, adaptation and adaptive potential of freshwater mussels
- Joachim Bretzel
PhD topic: Advancing fish-protection screening at water diversions to support freshwater fish conservation in the Murray-Darling Basin
- Thanasak Poomchaivej
PhD topic: Patterns of fish migration at Xayaburi Dam on the Mekong River using the PIT (passive integrated transponder) monitoring system
- Lauren Stoot
PhD topic: Predicting the impacts of river development on fish movement and population connectivity: A case study on the Clarence River system
Past
- Dr Jamin Forbes
PhD topic: Population dynamics and implications for management of a Murray cod and golden perch fishery in south-eastern Australia
- Bettina Grieve
Honours topic: Assessing the effectiveness of PIT tagging for Mekong fish species
- Dr Luke Pearce
PhD topic: Conservation management of southern pygmy perch (Nannoperca australis) in NSW, in the context of climatic extremes and alien species
- Dr Daniel Svozil
PhD topic: Trait divergence in river and reservoir populations of Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni)
- Dr An Vu
PhD topic: Diversity in the migration patterns of selected Mekong River fishes
Key Partner Researchers
Australian Partners
Australasian Fish Passage Services (AFPS)
- Tim Marsden
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
- Dr Ann Fleming
Australian Water Partnership
- Rory Hunter
AWMA Water Control Solutions
- Brett Kelly
Charles Sturt University (CSU)
- Prof. Martin Mallen-Cooper
Hendricks Consulting
- Hannah McPherson
KarlTek
- Karl Pomorin
NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)
- Dr Craig Boys
- Dr Trevor Daly
- Luke Pearce
Snowy Hydro
- Elizabeth Pope
International Government Organisations
The Mekong River Commission (MRC)
- Dr So Nam
Department of Fisheries (Myanmar)
- Nyunt Win
Flora and Fauna International (Myanmar)
- Zau Lunn
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (Myanmar)
- Aye Myint Swe
The Living Aquatic Resources Research Centre (LARReC) (Lao PDR)
- Douangkham Singhanouvong
- Khampheng Homsombath
Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute (Cambodia)
- Chann Aun Tob
Research Institute for Freshwater Aquaculture and Fisheries Extension (Indonesia)
- Dr Arif Wibowo
Research Institute for Inland Fisheries (Indonesia)
- Rezki Antoni
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (USA)
- Dr Daniel Deng
United States Fisheries and Wildlife Service
- Dr Alan Temple
International Tertiary Organisations
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (The Netherlands)
- Dr Leon Hermans
The National University of Laos (NUoL)
- Dr Oudom Phonekhampheng
- Garry Thorncraft
Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Germany)
- Prof. Juergen Geist
- Josef Knott
University of Mpumalanga, South Africa
- Dr Gordon O’Brien
International Tertiary Organisations
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
- Caroline Turner
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Erinda Pubill Panen
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