Street address
Forest Industries Research Centre
Building B
University of the Sunshine Coast
90 Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs, QLD 4556, Australia
Postal address
Forest Industries Research Centre (ML45)
Locked Bag 4
USC
MAROOCHYDORE BC QLD 4558
AUSTRALIA
Our people
Director
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Professor Mark Brown
Director, Forest Research Institute, Director, Forest Industries Research Centre, Professor of Forestry Operations; Director, Australian Forest Operations Research Alliance (AFORA)
Members
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Dr R Andrew Hayes
Forest Health Senior Research Fellow, Forest Research Institute -
Dr Alexandra Catling
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Forest Research Institute -
Professor F.E. “Jack” Putz
Research Professor, Forest Research Institute -
Associate Professor Simon Lawson
Forest Health, Forest Research Institute -
Associate Professor David Lee
Plant Genetics, Forest Research Institute -
Rick Mitchell
Senior Research Assistant, AFORA | Forest Research Institute -
Dr Helen Nahrung
Senior Research Fellow, Forest Research Institute -
Dr Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan
Research Fellow, Forest Research Institute -
Dr Claudia Romero
Senior Research Fellow, Forest Research Institute -
Martin Strandgard
Senior Research Fellow, AFORA, Forest Research Institute
Adjunct members
The Forest Industries Research Centre includes local and international adjuncts across industry and academia. These adjunct staff complement the team and provide expert advice and mentoring across the teams: centre strategy; research grant applications and programs; career development and training; scholarly publications; industry bulletins and reports.
The Centre's adjunct staff perform an integral role to the success of the centre and its ability to grow and increase social, environmental and economic impact on a local and global scale across the forestry value chain.
- Dr Geoffrey Downes, Adjunct (Silviculture, Wood Quality Assessment, Cambial Physiology)
- Dr Chandan Kumar, Adjunct (Forest Product Innovation, Operations Management, Drying Technologies)
- Dr Magagnotti Natascia, Adjunct (Agricultural Engineering)
- Dr Nahuel Pachas, Adjunct (Silvopastoral Systems, Forestry, Agroforestry, Forestry Smallholders)
- Dr Wolfgang Stahl, Adjunct (Optimisation and MDF production)
- Dr Raffaele Spinelli, Adjunct (Forestry)
- Dr Luis Yerman, Adjunct (Forestry)
Professional staff
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Kerri Salmon
Research Support and Administrative Officer, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems and Forest Research Institute -
Michelle Tapp
Research Administration Assistant, Forest Research Institute
