Group leader

Name
Research area Email
Professor Akbar Rhamdhani Advanced material refining; metals recycling and recovery from urban ores; thermodynamics; extractive metallurgy; solar metallurgy; astro metallurgy. arhamdhani@swinburne.edu.au

Core researchers

Name
Research area Email
Associate Professor Justin Leontini Fluid-structure interaction; fluid mechanics; bluff-body wakes; flow-induced vibrations; linear and floquet stability; ocean wave power jleontini@swinburne.edu.au
Associate Professor Jamal Naser Industrial computational fluid dynamics; combustion; fluid mechanics; foaming modelling jnaser@swinburne.edu.au
Professor Geoffrey Brooks Steelmaking; aluminium and magnesium production; high temperature processes; solar metallurgy; extractive metallurgy; process metallurgy; astro metallurgy gbrooks@swinburne.edu.au
Professor Richard Manasseh Fluid dynamics; wave energy (ocean wave power); bubble acoustic; inertia wave collapse; linear / nonlinear wave interactions rmanasseh@swinburne.edu.au

Adjunct Professors

Name
Research area Email
Adjunct Professor Guy Metcalfe Chaos; non-linear dynamic systems; Lagrangian coherent structure gmetcalfe@swinburne.edu.au
Adjunct Professor William John Rankin Pyrometallurgy; sustainability in metallurgy; minerals processing wrankin@swinburne.edu.au
Adjunct Professor John Grandfield Aluminium and magnesium casting technology; aluminium refining; tungsten and scandium metals jgrandfield@swinburne.edu.au
Adjunct Professor Mark Pownceby Geometallurgy; advanced materials characterisation; mineralogy and chemistry of minerals mpownceby@swinburne.edu.au
Adjunct Professor Douglas Swinbourne Pyrometallurgy; non-ferrous metallurgy dswinbourne@swinburne.edu.au

Postdoctoral and postgraduate researchers

Name
Research area Email
Dr Reiza Mukhlis High temperature processing rmukhlis@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Shuang Zhu Bubble acoustics sjzhu@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Suneeti Purohit Alternative route for ironmaking spurohit@swinburne.edu.au
Sheikh Ahasan Ahammad Advanced numerical modeling of packed-bed combustion sahammad@swinburne.edu.au
Riyadh Fara Farhan Al-Attabi Functional electrospun nanofiber membranes ralattabi@swinburne.edu.au
Mst Farhana Diba CFD modelling of packed bed combustion mdiba@swinburne.edu.au
Andrew Dix Wave action Interactions in internal combustion engines ajdix@swinburne.edu.au
Azam Dolatshah Sea-ice drift: experiments, field observations and direct numerical simulations adolatshah@swinburne.edu.au
Elmira Fadaeiazar Wind and wave induced turbulence in the upper ocean efadaeiazar@swinburne.edu.au
Dhefaf Raisan Faisal CFD modeling of microfoam dfaisal@swinburne.edu.au
Warnakulasooriya Dinoja Sammani Fernando  Design and CFD Analysis for Bio-char and Energy Producing Furnace  103017045@student.swinburne.edu.au 
Mohammad Mehedi Hasan Thermodynamics of Ta and Ru during e-waste processing in copper smelting mohammadhasan@swinburne.edu.au
De'vereux Harvey Modelling particle trajectories in wave-induced currents when influenced by marine structures  dharvey@swinburne.edu.au 
Heenatimullage Don Jason Shenal Heenatimulla  Analysis of sound from foaming in gas injection process hheenatimulla@swinburne.edu.au
Matthew Humbert  Production of oxygen and metals from lunar minerals through molten oxide electrolysis  mhumbert@swinburne.edu.au 
Isis Rosa Ignacio Sinter mineralogy and properties irosaignacio@swinburne.edu.au
Chinthaka Ravinatha Jacob Gas transport during high-frequency ventilation cjacob@swinburne.edu.au
Rohini Vasant Kadam Sound signal for controlling steelmaking process rkadam@swinburne.edu.au
Poom Kettalard Effect of alloying elements on the properties of shape memory alloy pkettalard@swinburne.edu.au
Shanti Krishnan Investigation into dark matter detector instrumentation skrishnan@swinburne.edu.au
Ka Ho Leung A detachable heat exchanger for air and cooling/heating medium kaholeung@swinburne.edu.au
Shirleen (Lee Yuen) Lo Stochastic modelling of biomass supply chain SLo@swinburne.edu.my
Aulia Qisthi Mairizal Mobile recycling facilities for urban ores (e-waste) amairizal@swinburne.edu.au
Negar Mohammadhosseini Flow-induced vibration of multiple bodies nhosseini@swinburne.edu.au
Deddy Chandra Nababan Rare earth metals recovery from batteries and permanent magnets dnababan@swinburne.edu.au
Sasikala Narasimman Steep wave interation with a floating body in SPH 101085095@student.swinburne.edu.au 
Luke Weiwei Ngu Technoeconomic analysis of natural gas sweetening plant lwngu@swinburne.edu.my
Bintang Ayu Nuraeni Valuable metals recovery from electric vehicles batteries bnuraeni@swinburne.edu.au
Nastaran Rezaee Numerical studies of the flow particles in the microscale foams nrezaee@swinburne.edu.au
Md Mamunur Roshid Coupled oscillations of array bubbles mroshid@swinburne.edu.au
Asywendi Rukini Reduction of lead blast furnace slag using alternative reductant wrukini@swinburne.edu.au
Nirmal Madhavanpillai Sajeevkumar Multi-zone kinetic model of oxygen steelmaking nmadhavanpillaisajee@swinburne.edu.au
Satish Samayam Investigation of local currents induced by an oscillating wave energy converter ssamayam@swinburne.edu.au
Abd Al Hamid Sarhan Numerical simulation of froth flotation asarhan@swinburne.edu.au
Matthew Shaw Processing of lunar regolith for metal extraction mgshaw@swinburne.edu.au
Phil Chan Siew Thong  Smart flow control in adaptive vent/duct  pchan@swinburne.edu.my 
Uzair Bin Tahir  Mathematical model for the conversion of ocean wave energy to electrical energy  utahir@swinburne.edu.au 
Danica Tothova Optimization of wave energy converters in single and array configurations dtothova@swinburne.edu.au
Robin Vanparys Fundamentals of direct reduction in the lead blast furnace rvanparys@swinburne.edu.au
Yuankun Zhang Heat transfer modelling of solar furnace

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