The Centre employs a wide range of support staff – Research Officers and Research Assistants, Technical Officers, Programmers and Administrators at each of the six collaborating organisations.
The Centre’s Professional Services Team is based at The Australian National University.
Robert Blankenship
Elucidating the mechanism of the energy-storing reactions in photosynthetic organisms
Robert was part of the Centre from 2015 to 2018
Andrew Borrell
Researched the physiological and molecular basis of drought and frost adaptation in cereals.
Andrew was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Florian Busch
Modelling photosynthetic processes on the leaf level
Florian was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2021
Caitlin Byrt
Modifying the function of plant membrane and solute transport mechanisms to improve plant resistance to environmental stress.
Caitlin was part of the Centre from 2018 to 2021
Scott Chapman
Improving crop adaptation via genetics and physiology
Scott was with the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Karine Chenu
Working on crop modelling, plant design and breeding strategies in winter cereals
Karine was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Fred (Wah Soon) Chow
Improving light energy capture efficiency
Fred (Wah Soon) was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2021
Victoria (Tory) Clarke
Exploiting phenotypic variation in photosynthesis efficiency to increase wheat yield.
Tory was part of the Centre from 2017 to 2021
Annamaria De Rosa
Researching photosynthesis physiology, specifically the role of aquaporins and tobacco transformation.
Annamaria was part of the Centre from 2016 to 2021
Remko Duursma
Modelling vegetation function, including photosynthesis, growth, water use and radiation absorption of trees and forests
Remko was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2021
Gonzalo Estavillo
Investigating photosynthetic variation
Gonzalo was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2021
Susan Howitt
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of transporters.
Susan was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Eric Huttner
Research program manager for Crop Improvement and Management at ACIAR
Eric was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Jose Jimenez-Berni
Development of high throughput phenotyping techniques using a suite of remote sensing tools
Jose was part of the Centre from 2016 to 2019
Martha Ludwig
Researching the cell and molecular biology and evolution of plant carbonic anhydrases, and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in the Neurachninae.
Martha was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2021
Samantha McGaughey
Engineering plant membrane proteins and solute transport to increase yield security
Samantha was part of the Centre from 2020 to 2021
Alexie Papanicolaou
Using gene expression to dissect the molecular basis of adaptive traits on ecological and economically important species.
Alexie was part of the Centre from 2017 to 2020
Andries Potgieter
Researching the complex integration of spatial production modelling, climate forecasting and remotely sensed systems at a regional scale.
Andries was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Vivien Rolland
Incorporating bicarbonate transporters from cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) into plant chloroplasts.
Vivien was part of the Centre from 2015 to 2020
Viridiana Silva-Perez
Characterising the photosynthetic properties of different wheat varieties, and develop faster screening techniques that measure the spectrum of light reflected from the leaf
Viridiana was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Xavier Sirault
Dissecting complex quantitative traits in plants and modeling their expression and plasticity under dynamic environments.
Xavier was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2021
Erik van Oosterom
Researching the crop physiological basis of adaptation to abiotic stress in summer cereals.
Erik was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Enli Wang
Researching productivity and environmental impact of farming systems, crop physiology and crop genotype
Enli was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Rosemary White
Leading the CSIRO Microscopy Centre
Rosemary was part of the Centre from 2017 to 2020