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A/Prof Peter Halley (Director)	Multiphase polymers, biodegradable polymers, applied rheology and polymer processing
A/Prof Rowan Truss	Polymer and materials performance
Prof Andrew Whittaker	Polymer physical chemistry and many aspects of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging
Prof Julie Campbell	Professor Anatomy, medical polymers
Dr David Hill	High Energy Radiation Chemistry of Polymers, Polymerization Kinetics and Mechanisms, Polymers with Biomedical Applications
Dr Lisbeth Grondahl	Surface modification of fluoropolymer facial prosthesis for improved bone bonding
Dr Darren Martin	Rotational molding, polyurethanes, biomaterials, nanocomposites
Prof Ian Meyers	Professor/Chair of General Practice Dentistry
Dr Timothy Nicholson	Modelling Rheology and Polymer Processing & atomistic level molecular modelling
A/Prof Anne Symons	Associate Professor Dentistry
Prof Lawrence Walsh

Academic Staff-Research Only

Dr Idriss Blakey	Polymer synthesis for biomedical applications
Dr Alex Forrest	Dentistry Lecturer
Dr Bronwyn Laycock	Photodegradable agricultural films, plastic solar stills, polymer characterisations
Dr Tri Le	Novel chemistry for nanocomposites
A/Prof Michael Monteiro	Living radical polymerization
Dr Suzette Porter	Dentistry Lecturer
Dr Firas Rasoul	Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Magnetic Resonance
Dr Liying Shao
Dr Katia Strounina	NMR Spectroscopy
Dr Peter Torley	Extrusion of starch and honey products

Adjunct Staff

Dr Ye Hong	Adjunct Lecturer - Biomaterials
Dr Stewart McGlashan	Adjunct Senior Lecturer - Meat co-products
Dr Rulande Rutgers	Adjunct Senior Lecturer � Rheology and biodegradable plastics

Professional Researchers

Eddie Gullota	Dental polymers technical assistant
Andrew Middleton	Dentistry research assistant
Rachel Peltola	Dentistry clinical assistant
Yoosup Park	Lignin polymers and composites

Postgraduate Students

Kayleen Campbell	The Structure of Polyurethane Nanocomposites studied by NMR and other methods
Celine Chaleat	Structure property relationships in thermoplastic starch polymers
Adrienne Chandler-Temple	Surface Modification of Fluoropolymer Implant Materials by Graft Polymerisation
Lan Chen	Polymer-wood composites
Mohammad Chowdhury	Drug delivery

Ian Clemitson
Tim Dargaville	Grafted polymer surfaces
Grant Edwards	Novel nanoclays for polymer nanocomposites
Bradley Finnigan	The development of novel polyurethane nanocomposites for biomedical applications
Marina Lonsdale	Thermal degradation
Raju Maliger	Polymer engineering
Ronda Plummer	Biodegradable hydrogels
Adrian Riding
Melissa Russo	Aging and biodegradation of thermoplastic starch
Maria Soares	Dental polymers
Paul Tsai	Dental polymers
Parvathy Victor	Novel hydrogels for drug delivery
Arosha Weerakoon
David West	PVC pipe material fatigue thresholds, crack initiation and propagation
Tim Woo	Synthesis and characterisation of rigid castable polyurethane nanocomposites
Sri Yuliani	Stability of microencapsulated volatiles during high-temperature short-time (HTST) extrusion
Zainuddin	Calcification of Hydrogels
Michael Clayton (P/T)	Understanding and Developing the Properties and Performance of Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) Blends
Brenton Fletcher (P/T)	Biodegradable films
John Gralton (P/T)	Injection molding biodegradable plastics
Oliver Jackson (P/T)	Starch based plastics
Anna-Lisa Sargent (P/T)	Processing Model PLA Biodegradable Polymers
Jiang Wang (Jack) (P/T)	Chemorheology of highly filled thermosets