Our People

At the ARDC, our people are our greatest asset. Meet our CEO, Senior Leadership Team and staff, who can help you with your data and digital research needs.
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The ARDC staff are technical experts who partner with the research community to deliver national digital research infrastructure. We can answer your questions and connect you with the right people for your needs. Find out about our teams and staff members.

Chief Executive Officer

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Rosie Hicks

Chief Executive Officer
Strategy, research infrastructure, nanofabrication, industry engagement

Senior Leadership Team

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Dr Adrian Burton

Deputy CEO and Director, People Research Data Commons
Strategy, informatics, data assets, national policy
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Hamish Holewa

Director, Planet Research Data Commons
Research infrastructure, strategy, IT development and management, environment and climate change
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Jenny Fewster

Director, HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons
Digital humanities, HASS, Indigenous research, GLAM
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Dr Sheida Hadavi

Director, Translational Research Data Challenges
Program management, information systems, data analytics
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Keith Russell

Director, Outreach
Institutional research data management capability, FAIR
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Natasha Simons

Director, National Coordination
Strategic initiatives, program management, informatics, international collaboration, data assets
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Ben Chiu

Director, Services
Services, technology strategy, cybersecurity, digital skills and capabilities, customer experience
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Matt Dailey

Chief Operating Officer
Operations, finance, strategy, governance, organisational performance, change management
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Dr Emma Crott

Chief of Staff and Company Secretary
Administration, governance, strategy development
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Dr Andrew Treloar

Director, International Strategy
Platforms, software, data management, digital research infrastructure, international partners

People Research Data Commons

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Dr Adrian Burton

Deputy CEO and Director, People Research Data Commons
Strategy, informatics, data assets, national policy
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Roger Ward

Solutions Architect (People Research Data Commons)

Planet Research Data Commons

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Hamish Holewa

Director, Planet Research Data Commons
Research infrastructure, strategy, IT development and management, environment and climate change
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Kerry Levett

Solutions Architect (Planet Research Data Commons)
Research platforms, trusted data supply chains, environmental science

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) and Indigenous Research Data Commons

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Jenny Fewster

Director, HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons
Digital humanities, HASS, Indigenous research, GLAM
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Dr Nichola Burton

Programs Architect (HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons)
HASS, Indigenous research, GLAM, institutional research data management

Translational Research Data Challenges

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Dr Sheida Hadavi

Director, Translational Research Data Challenges
Program management, information systems, data analytics

Outreach

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Keith Russell

Director, Outreach
Institutional research data management capability, FAIR

Engagements

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Dr Robin Burgess

Manager, Engagements Team
Data governance, management and planning, FAIR, CARE
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Dr Richard Ferrers

Data Consultant
Institutional data maturity, communities, FAIR data, trusted data repositories
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Mary Filsell

Data Consultant
FAIR, GLAM, HASS, research data management, research, outreach and engagement
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Trish Radotic

RDA Regional Community Manager (Oceania and East Asia)
Research Data Alliance, partnership and stakeholder management, community engagement
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Andrew White

Data Consultant
Engagement, institutional data maturity, communities, FAIR

Marketing and Communications

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Adelle Coote

Marketing and Communications Manager
Marketing, communication, brand
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Paul Murphy

Senior Graphics Designer
Print design, branding, layout, typography
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Lauren O’Keeffe

Project Manager, International Conferences
International event management, stakeholder and engagement specialist, marketing
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Jo Savill

Senior Science Communicator
Strategic science communication, writing, digital marketing
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Asher Vennell

Project and Communications Coordinator
Event management, logistics, administration
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Jason Yuen

Digital Content Designer
Writing, editing, web content management, social media

Skilled Workforce Development

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Kathryn Unsworth

Manager, Skilled Workforce Development
Skills frameworks, training infrastructure, FAIR training materials, community development
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Dr Rob Clemens

Skills Development Lead (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Ecological modelling, data processing, training
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Dr Amany Gouda-Vossos

Skills Development Lead (Health and Medical)
Program management, evaluation, learning design, mixed methods research, stakeholder engagement
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Kit Greenhill

Skils Development Lead (HASS and Indigenous)
Learning design, community facilitation, GLAMR, cultural data, FAIR and CARE
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Meirian Lovelace-Tozer

Skills Development Lead (Services)
Skills development, training infrastructure, learning design, community facilitation, data analysis
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Ellen Lyrtzis

Skills Development Lead (NCRIS)
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Liz Stokes

Skills Development Lead (Trainer and Research Communities)
Training, Carpentries, ResBaz, community facilitation
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Adeline Wong

Skills Development Lead (Learning Design)
Co-design, curriculum, andragogy, skills development

National Coordination

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Natasha Simons

Director, National Coordination
Strategic initiatives, program management, informatics, international collaboration, data assets

Expertise

our staff,ARDC staff,ARDC management,ARDC contacts,Our people

Dr Muhammad Ali

Research Data Specialist (Data Architecture)
Data architecture, data workflows, data science (AI), energy infrastructures
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Dr Gnana K Bharathy

Research Data Specialist (AI/ML)
AI, ML, modelling (various), socio-technical systems, risk
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Kylie Black

Research Data Specialist
Sensitive data, bushfires projects
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Catherine Brady

Research Data Specialist (FAIR)
FAIR data, metadata, information management, data management
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Nick Jenkins

Research Software Specialist
Software engineering, cloud-based computing, project management, data systems and architectures
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Jonathan Smillie

Systems Analyst, eResearch Infrastructure
eResearch infrastructure, systems architectures and analysis
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Dr Aleem Uddin

Research Infrastructure Specialist (Virtualisation)
Containerisation, virtualisation, Kubernetes, FAIR software, analytics, technology management, AI, research

National Information Infrastructure (NII) Products

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Professor Shawn Ross

Manager, NII Products and Product Manager (RAiD)
Data management, product management, persistent identifiers
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Melanie Barlow

Product Manager (Research Data Australia)
Metadata registry interoperability, FAIR Principles
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Rowan Brownlee

Product Manager (Research Vocabularies Australia)
Information management, metadata, vocabularies
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Matthias Liffers

Product Manager (Persistent Identifiers)
Identifiers, metadata, APIs, data publishing workflows
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Dr Mingfang Wu

Product Manager (Research Data Australia, Research Link Australia)
Information/data discovery, information model, data quality, metadata interoperability
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Lesley Wyborn

Research Data Strategist
FAIR, standards, international collaboration, earth sciences

Program Design and Delivery

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Jude Channon

Project Manager (People Research Data Commons)
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Jennifer Corbett

Project Coordinator (HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons)
Project coordination, research data management
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Amanda Del Valle

Business Analyst
Health systems analysis, digital design
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Kheeran Dharmawardena

Program Manager (Data Spaces)

Elleina Filippi

Program Manager (NCRIS)
Stakeholder engagement, communications, project management, leadership and people development, strategic planning
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Dr David Hackman

Project Manager (HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons)
Management of complex projects, program management, software engineering, product development
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Dr Stefanie Kethers

Program Manager (Data Challenges)
Program initiation, program management, community building, virtual collaboration
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Miranda Liu

Program Manager (People Research Data Commons)
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Julia Martin

Program Manager (Planet Research Data Commons)
Data consultation, information management, program management
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Dr Paula Andrea Martinez

Project Coordinator (Software)
Research software, FAIR, change leadership
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Siobhann McCafferty

Project Coordinator / Project Manager
Persistent identifiers, project management, communities of practice
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Rob Milne

Program Manager (Planet Research Data Commons)
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Jo Morris

Program Manager (Planet Research Data Commons)
Research infrastructure, program management, information systems and user experience
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Omer Waraich

Project Manager (People Research Data Commons)
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Dr Rhys Williams

Project Manager (People Research Data Commons)
Biomedical, clinical research, partnerships, bioinformatics
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Dr Lyle Winton

Program Manager
Program management, co-design, data publishing, computational tools, software engineering
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Dr Megan Wong

Project Manager (Planet Research Data Commons)

Services

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Ben Chiu

Director, Services
Services, technology strategy, cybersecurity, digital skills and capabilities, customer experience

National Information Infrastructure (NII) DevOps

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Liz Woods

DevOps Manager (NII)
Research Data Australia, Research Vocabularies Australia, Agile development, DevOps, CI/CD
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Vikas Chinchansur

Software Developer
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Aguido Horatio Davis

Software Developer
Ontologies, controlled vocabularies, programming, cloud
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Nima Kazi

Software Developer
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Rob Leney

Software Engineer (RaID)
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Leo Monus

Software Developer
Full Research Data Australia stack, HeSANDA, Research Link Australia, PIDs, Handles
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Cel Pilapil

IT Services Coordinator (NII)
IT service management, ITIL
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Grant Ward

Systems Administration and Technical Support Officer
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Steffen Weidenhaus

Software Engineer
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Hamid Zaib

Test Analyst
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Enming Zhang

Business Analyst
Project management, Agile methodologies, QA testing, prototyping

Nectar Research Cloud

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Dr Paul Coddington

Associate Director, Nectar
Cloud computing, IT for research, project and operations management
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Dr Bernard Meade

DevOps Manager (Nectar)
Research cloud, research support, project design, emerging technologies
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Sonia Ramza

User Support Manager (Nectar)
Cloud training, learning material creation, user experience
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Andy Botting

Lead DevOps Engineer
Research cloud
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Ping Chen

Research DevOps Systems Engineer
Kubernetes, service mesh, software defined networking, large language model
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Dr Stephen Crawley

DevOps Engineer
OpenStack, cloud computing, Nectar allocations
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Darcelle Malby

UX Engineer
Web development, user experience, interaction design
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Dylan McCulloch

DevOps Engineer
Research cloud, storage infrastructure
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Sam Morrison

Lead DevOps Engineer
ARDC Nectar Research Cloud
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Kaushik Ramesh

Senior DevOps Engineer
Research cloud
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Adrian Smith

DevOps Engineer
Research cloud

Bryce Torcello

DevOps Engineer
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Rocky Yan

Cloud DevOps Engineer
Cloud computing, OpenStack, observability and monitoring, Kubernetes
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Jake Yip

Technical Lead (Nectar)
Kubernetes, OpenStack, security, software-defined networking

Operations

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Matt Dailey

Chief Operating Officer
Operations, finance, strategy, governance, organisational performance, change management

Piya Tokas

Business Support Manager
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Madhu Bahl

Enterprise Systems Lead
Managing, monitoring and securing Salesforce CRM and other digital platforms
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Fiona Nelson Campbell

Office Administrator, ANU
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Tika Kandel

Enterprise Systems Senior Support Officer
Configuration, management, implementation of enterprise systems and related support
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Elizabeth Lopes

Senior Project Officer
Administrative support
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David Vitkin

Finance Manager
Financial performance, budgeting, forecasting, compliance, change management
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Tamsin Wilson

HR Business Partner
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Shubhra Dargar

Project Manager
Agile project management, governance, monitoring, strategy
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Liv Shanahan

PMO Lead
Project management, governance, monitoring, evaluation and impact

CEO Office

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Dr Andrew Treloar

Director, International Strategy
Platforms, software, data management, digital research infrastructure, international partners
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Dr Emma Crott

Chief of Staff and Company Secretary
Administration, governance, strategy development
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Shannon Callaghan

Senior Data Policy Advisor
Policy, governance
our staff,ARDC staff,ARDC management,ARDC contacts,Our people

Myra Cheng

Senior Data Policy Advisor
Research policy, engagement

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