Speakers
Introducing our confirmed speakers for ICRI2024.

Pro-Vice Chancellor of Flagship Initiatives at Swinburne University of Technology
Keynote speaker

Executive Director for the Australian Government’s Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD) in the Department of Industry, Science and Resources
Speaker

The Minister for the Environment and Tourism and the Minister for Science and Innovation for the Queensland Government
Speaker

Senior Process Engineer Deputy Facility Manager at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN)
Panellist

Senior Advisor for Facilities in the Division for Astronomical Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Panellist

Corporate Innovation and Technology Officer (CITO) of Ocean Networks Canada (ONC)
Panellist

Director of Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO) Centre for Accelerator Science
Moderator

Acting Deputy Division Director for the Division of Biological Infrastructure in the Directorate of Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Panellist

Regents’ Researcher and Associate Director in the Institute for Matter and Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Panellist

Director of the Infectious Disease Research and Training Office at the National Centre for Infectious Disease, Singapore
Panellist

Coordinator of Negotiation, Advice and International Studies at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Panellist

Head of Business Development at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
Panellist

Director General of ACTRIS ERIC, the Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure
Panellist

Head of Strategy & International Cooperation at Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)
Panellist

Research Director at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
Moderator

Deputy Programme Manager and Programme Engineer of the European – Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)
Panellist

Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University
Moderator

Head of International Affairs at Chile’s Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation
Panellist

Clinical Director of the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Panellist

Director of the Research Support Centre within Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR)
Moderator

Director of Strategic Development, Environment and Infrastructure at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Panellist

Deputy Director General for International Consortia, Organizations and Research Infrastructures at the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities of Spain
Moderator

Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging
Keynote speaker

Senior Research Fellow at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Panellist

Director of RECETOX, the European Centre of Excellence in Environmental Health Sciences
Panellist

Chief Executive Officer at the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF)
Moderator

Chief of the Knowledge Innovation Division (KID) of the Philippine Department of Science and Technology (DOST) – Philippine Science High School System
Panellist

PhD candidate in Science, Technology, and Science (STS) at The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Panellist

Manager of the Data Infrastructure Node (uLwazi) at the South African Environmental Observation Network (NRF-SAEON)
Panellist

Coordinator of the Cape Horn Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) Network
Panellist

Head of Unit, Open Science, Directorate-General Research and Innovation at the European Commission
Panellist

Executive Director of Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing system (IMOS)
Panellist

Vice President of Programs and Planning for the Canada Foundation for Innovation
Panellist

Managing Director of European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH (European XFEL)
Panellist

Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre
Panellist

Deputy Director of the Office of Lifelong Learning at Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University, Thailand
Panellist

Climate scientist and researcher at the Kenya Meteorological Department, Climate Change branch
Panellist

Chief Scientist and Observatory Director of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Moderator

Professor of Digital Engineering and Health Informatics at the University of Nottingham
Panellist

co-Director of the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons in Forschungszentrum Jülich
Panellist

Deputy Chief Officer for Research Facilities at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Moderator & Panellist

Director of the European Social Survey, European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC)
Panellist

Senior Advisor for Facilities, Directorate for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Panellist

Executive Director of the National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC) within Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)
Panellist

Program Director in the Division of Physics at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Panellist

Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Panellist

Director of the Scientific Satellite Institute at the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Panellist
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters throughout Australia, and pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise the importance of connection to culture, land, kinship and community to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander families. We acknowledge the cultural practices and traditions still carried out today and being passed down to future generations.
