Areas of Staff Specialisation

Member of Staff

Area of Specialisation

Assoc.Prof Fredoun AHMADI -ESFAHANI

f.ahmadi-esfahani@usyd.edu.au

Marketing
International trade development
Development economics
Industrial organisation

Dr Nizam AHMED

N.Ahmed@camden.usyd.edu.au

Double haploids
Plant hybrids
Cereal plant breeding

Dr Dhia AL-BAKRI

d.bakri@usyd.edu.au

Water quality management
Hydrology
Salinity assessment management
Environmental management
Sustainable development

Dr Tihomir ANCEV

t.ancev@usyd.edu.au

Environmental economics
Resource economics

Dr Harbans BARIANA

harbansb@camden.usyd.edu.au

Plant improvement
Cereal rusts

Dr Robert CALDWELL

r.caldwell@usyd.edu.au

Food chemistry and biochemistry
Environmental chemistry of metals

Dr Lindsay CAMPBELL

l.campbell@usyd.edu.au

Agronomy
Plant nutrition
Food systems

Dr Stephen CATTLE

s.cattle@usyd.edu.au

Soil science
Pedology
Aeolian dust
Soil structure

Dr Shyamal CHOWDHURY

s.chowdhury@usyd.edu.au

Development economics

Applied microeconomics

Experimental economics

Professor Les COPELAND

l.copeland@usyd.edu.au

Food chemistry and biochemistry

Biochemistry of starch
Grain science
Plant biochemistry
Cereal proteomics

Dr Norman DARVEY

normd@camden.usyd.edu.au

Plant improvement
Postharvest, processing and quality

Dr Chong Mei DONG

chongd@camden.usyd.edu.au

Gene technology
Mutagenesis

Assoc.Professor Ross DRYNAN

r.drynan@usyd.edu.au

Risk & decision theory
Production economics

Professor David GUEST

d.guest@usyd.edu.au

Plant Pathology

Plant-pathogen interactions

Sustainable disease management

Tropical plant pathology

Dr Michael HARRIS

m.harris@usyd.edu.au

Environmental and resource economics
Sustainable development

Dr Brian JONES

brian.jones@usyd.edu.au

Developmental Biology

Cell fate Determination

Wood and Vascular Development

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Arabidopsis thaliana

Assoc. Professor Neil HOWES

neil.howes@camden.usyd.edu.au

Plant Breeding
Cereal chemistry
Antibody diagnostics
Plant molecular biology
DNA micro-arrays

Dr Haydar KARAOGLU

haydar@camden.usyd.edu.au

Molecular biology of plant pathogens

Professor Ivan KENNEDY

i.kennedy@usyd.edu.au

Biological nitrogen fixation
Risk management of pesticides
Bio-fertilisers

Assoc. Professor Akram KHAN

akramk@camden.usyd.edu.au

Wheat Breeding

Dr Shuming LUO

shuming@camden.usyd.edu.au

Ornamental plant breeding

Dr Sarah MANSFIELD

s.mansfield@usyd.edu.au

Biological control of insect pests
Insect parasitoid and predator ecology
Assessment of host range and feeding preference
Integrated pest management
Invasive insects

Professor Alex McBRATNEY

alex.mcbratney@usyd.edu.au

Pedometrics
Precision agriculture
Spatial statistics
Soil physics
Soil science

Dr Robyn McCONCHIE

r.mcconchie@usyd.edu.au

Postharvest and supply chains in horticulture
Induced resistance in plants - reducing pesticide use
Horticultural crop production; vegetables; nursery; cut flower hydroponics
Australian Native Flora - especially for cut flowers

Dr Peter MARTIN

pmartin@camden.usyd.edu.au

Turf management
Amenity plant science

Dr Carina MOELLER

c.moeller@usyd.edu.au

Cropping systems simulations and analysis

Managing short and long term climate variability

Sustainable farming systems

Dr Inakwu ODEH

i.odeh@usyd.edu.au

GIS/Rural spatial information systems
Remote sensing/ image analysis
Land use and land use change modelling
Geo-statistics/ Pedometrics

Professor Robert PARK

robertp@usyd.edu.au

Fungal plant pathology
Cereal Breeding
Pest management
Plant biotechnology

Dr Paulo SANTOS

p.santos@usyd.edu.au

Development economics
Program evaluation

Wealth dynamics

Social networks

Professor Peter SHARP

peters@usyd.edu.au

Postharvest, processing and quality
Molecular biology
DNA micro-arrays
Gene technology

Assoc. Professor Balwant
SINGH

b.singh@usyd.edu.au

Soil contamination
Soil mineralogy
Soil fertility
Soil chemistry

Dr Daniel TAN

d.tan@usyd.edu.au

Agronomy
Cotton science
Farming systems and crop modelling
Abiotic stress physiology
Plant physiology

Professor Richard TRETHOWAN

rtrethowan@camden.usyd.edu.au

Cereal Breeding
Plant breeding
Grain micro- nutrients

Dr Matthew TURNER

mturner@usyd.edu.au

Sustainable crop production systems
Cereal Chemistry

Dr Willem VERVOORT

w.vervoort@usyd.edu.au

Hydrology
Landscape processes
Biophysical modelling
Salinity assessment and management
Water quality and management

Adjunct Professor WELLINGS

colinw@camden.usyd.edu.au

Fungal plant pathology
Host-pathogen interactions
International pathogen monitoring
Cereal breeding

Dr Brett WHELAN

b.whelan@usyd.edu.au

Precision agriculture

Dr Peng ZHANG

pengzhang@usyd.edu.au

Cereal cytogenetics
Molecular cytogenetics

Dr Xiaochun ZHAO

zhaox@camden.usyd.edu.au

Plant starch; plant breeding
Plant tissue culture
Double haploids

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