People

Directorate

Scientia Professor Del Favero

Joint Directors:

• Scientia Prof Dennis Del Favero Scientia Professor, UNSW Art & Design
• Prof Stephanie Hemelryk Donald: ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Arts & Social Science
• Prof Claude Sammut: Head (Autonomous Systems Research Group), School of Computer Science & Engineering, UNSW Engineering
• Prof Steven Sherwood: ARC Laureate Fellow | Director, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Science

Centre Fellows

Professorial Fellows:

• Emeritus Prof Neil Brown
• Prof Malvina Borgherini: Director, MeLa Media Laboratory, IUAV, University of Venice
• Prof Maurice Pagnucco

Visiting Professorial Research Fellows:

• Prof Vincent Heuveline: Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg
• Prof Adrian Parr: Director of Taft Research Centre, University of Cincinnati
• Prof Wolfgang Tschapeller: Director, Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
• Prof Peter Weibel: CEO, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Visiting Research Fellows: 


• Dr Timothy Barker: Lecturer, Digital Media, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Robin Chow

• Ardrian Hardjono
• Dr Stephen Sewell: Head, Writing for Performance, NIDA

Adjunct Professors:

• Michael Scott-Mitchell: Artistic Director, Goblin Films
• Kip Williams: Artistic Director, Sydney Theatre Company

Centre Steering Committee

Deans: UNSW

• Prof Susan Dodds (Arts & Social Science)
• Prof Ross Harley (Chair) (Art & Design)
• Prof Mark Hoffman (Engineering)
• Prof Peter Lovibond (Science)

• Lynn Greenwood (Faculty Manager, Art & Design)
• Kate Cherry (Director/CEO, NIDA: National Institute of Dramatic Arts)

Centre Staff

Post-Doctoral Fellow: Dr Baden Pailthorpe
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Dr Denise Thwaites
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Dr Susanne Thurow
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Dr Andrew Yip
Research Fellow: Karen Kriss
Director, iCinema Immersive Systems Lab: Alex Ong
Technical Systems Architect: Alex Ong
Immersive Systems Engineer: Nicola Best

Labs

Intelligent Environments Lab

Director: Prof Claude Sammut

AVIE-SC Lab (EPICentre)

Director: Prof Dennis Del Favero

NIEA iCinema Lab

Director: Prof Dennis Del Favero
Immersive Interaction Program Director: Volker Kuchelmeister
Motion Capture Program Director: Karen Kriss

Centre Commercial Arm

Immersive Realisation Pty Ltd: Damian Leonard (Director)