DISTINGUISHED CHAIR

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Funded by RMIT University

Home: University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Host: RMIT University

Field: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Melissa is the Haslam Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She studies the psychology of entrepreneurs as they found, persist, and succeed (or not) with their ventures. Topics of special interest include entrepreneurial passion, emotion, resource acquisition, persistence, exit, failure recovery and learning, stress, burnout, and exhaustion, as well as coping mechanisms to address pervasive problems.

Melissa’s Fulbright project focuses on understanding the loneliness experiences of Australian entrepreneurs, which can have profound effects on individual well-being and performance, and how entrepreneurs cope behaviorally, cognitively, socially, and emotionally.

Fulbright Distinguished Chair

Funded by The University of Newcastle

Home: Indiana University

Host: The University of Newcastle

Field: Environmental Health

Gabriel is a Chancellor's Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute. Gabriel is a biogeochemist, and has worked on climate change, global phosphorus cycling, and more recently environmental contamination, including novel ways to engage communities in identifying and eliminating pollutant exposures.

Gabriel will join the University of Newcastle as a Distinguished Chair in the Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, studying opportunities to utilize creative approaches to mitigating pollution exposure in countries with few resources and inadequate governmental environmental oversight.

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Science, Technology and Innovation

Funded by CSIRO

Home: University of Colorado Boulder

Host: CSIRO Energy Centre

Field: Energy Engineering

Gregor’s research focuses on energy flexibility of the built environment through advanced control strategies such as modelling predictive and reinforcement learning control, occupant behavior and presence detection, sensor fusion algorithms, and novel district energy systems. He is primary author of more than 150 research articles, four of which have received best paper awards, and received three patents. He is a Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, joint professor at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, as well as co-founder and chief scientist of QCoefficient, Inc., a startup developing real-time optimal control solutions for grid-interactive efficient buildings.

Gregor's Fulbright project tackles the transition of the Australian energy sector driven by decarbonization, decentralization and digitalization. He will focus specifically on ways the built environment can benefit from data-driven digital innovations to support emissions reduction and enable decentralization, i.e., the participation of buildings in the electricity market to deliver grid services.

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Funded by RMIT University

Home: Northeastern University

Host: RMIT University

Field: Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Engineering, and Engineering Education

In February 2021 Aileen joined the Bioengineering faculty at Northeastern University and became the Director of Life Sciences and Engineering Programs at The Roux Institute (Portland, Maine). Aileen has a fourteen-year history of bringing about organizational change in higher education, leveraging evidencebased practices at University of Michigan. She created the U-M BME graduate design program, co-founded the U-M College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship, launched the U-M National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node, and developed the U-M BME Instructional Incubator. She is a canonical instructor for both the NSF and National Institute of Health (NIH) I-Corps Programs. Dr. Huang-Saad has received numerous awards for her teaching and student advising, including the 1938E College of Engineering Award, the Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching Award, the U-M ASEE Outstanding Professor Award, the International Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award, and the College of Engineering Outstanding Student Advisor Award.

Dr. Huang-Saad's current research areas are entrepreneurship, innovation, and transforming higher education. She is funded by the NSF to explore the influence of the microenvironment of entrepreneurship education on minoritized populations, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and fostering graduate student professional development.

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy (Democratic Resilience)

Funded by Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon University Australia (CMUA)

Home: University of Central Florida

Host: Flinders University and CMUA

Field: Applied Public Policy, Democratic Resilience

Naim is Pegasus Professor of Public Administration and Policy and former Director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is also joint faculty at the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs and the Center for Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems (RISES).

Naim received the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy, Democratic Resilience award, and will be jointly hosted by Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon University Australia in 2022. His core research interests are network governance and leadership, decision-making in complex environments, organizational learning and design, and social inquiry and public policy. Naim has published widely in areas of public administration, network governance, and emergency and crisis management.

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Funded by The Australian National University (ANU)

Home: Salisbury University

Host: The Australian National University

Field: U.S.

Dean is a professor of history at Salisbury University, specialising in United States political, diplomatic, and transnational history. He is the author of Nixon’s Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy (Harvard University Press, 2001) and Paul

V. McNutt and the Age of FDR (Indiana University Press, 2015) and the editor of The European Union: From Jean Monnet to the Euro (Ohio University Press, 2000). Based at the Australian National University, he will use his Fulbright to research his current book project, a study of the parallels and connections between United States and Australian indigenous policy between 1945 and 2000.

Dean received his PhD in history at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1998. He has lectured in twenty-three countries across North America, Europe, and Australasia, including on two earlier Fulbright Scholar Awards. He is excited to share his insights on—and passion about—the modern American presidency.

Fulbright Distinguished Chair

Funded by The University of Newcastle

Home: University of Utah

Host: The University of Newcastle

Field: Vascular Neurology and Telemedicine

Jenny is a vascular neurologist and the Director of the University of Utah Comprehensive Stroke Center and 6-state Telestroke Network. She also manages a clinical trials network across 3 states. To better serve patients with stroke, she is passionate about improving stroke systems of care, particularly patients in rural areas without readily-available specialty services.

For her Fulbright, she plans to learn from Australian telemedicine and stroke trials experts how to use existing telestroke networks to enroll rural patients into acute clinical trials. She also hopes to determine which long-term outcomes measures in stroke trials could be feasibly and accurately conducted over telemedicine platforms, to avoid patients needing to travel long distances for follow-up. Last, she hopes to learn how national policy can shape and improve the efficiency of clinical trials overall, with the ultimate goal to shape trial conduction back in the US.

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Southern Queensland

Host: United States Department of Agriculture/ University of Missouri

Field: Soil Science

John is a soil physicist and Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems. He has served as the Federal President of Soil Science Australia – the peak body for soil science –with a focus on the development of expert capacity to serve Australians. Through the establishment of a training board, his conceived Recognised Soil Practitioner program has been included in the National Soil Strategy. John's academic focus is the complexity of soil structure, and its variability at all scales and dimensions. His project will focus on soilspecific on-farm management strategies that are profitable and environmentally sound.

John's Fulbright will provide farmers with a greater ability to quantify likelihood of success in soil management. By fusing direct data collection with proximal sensing and probability-based outputs, John aims to produce implementable action plans that are financially considered, productive, and environmentally sound. This work seeks to revolutionise the value proposition for sustainable soil management.

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Tasmania

Host: University of California Santa Cruz

Field: Plant Biology

Tim is currently a Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Tasmania, the same institution where he graduated with a BSc in Biology. His doctoral studies examined the evolution and function of conifers in the Southern Hemisphere involving extensive field work in the forests of PNG, New Caledonia, New Zealand and South America. Following this, he worked as a postdoc at Harvard University studying plant physiology in Costa Rican forest trees, before returning to Australia to undertake an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship award. Tim now leads a lab group that focusses on the vulnerabilities of plants during drought.

Tim's Fulbright will allow him to travel to northern California to use technology developed by his group to monitor the impact of climate on plant stress levels.

Funded by Florida Polytechnic University

Home: University of Wollongong

Host: Florida Polytechnic University

Field: Cyber Security

Alex is Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Innovation, Enterprise and External Relations) and Professor of Economics at the University of Wollongong. He holds postgraduate degrees from University of Wollongong, University of Sydney and Cambridge University and has published over 100 scholarly articles in leading journals. He has been ranked amongst the top 150 scholars in his field globally by an influential survey of finance researchers. Professor Frino is a two time Fulbright Awardeepreviously hosted by Georgetown University in 2005. Alex will be travelling to the U.S. to work with scholars in the Cyber Security Department at Florida Polytechnic University and his research project will examine the impact of cyber attacks on listed companies in NATO countries.

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Southern Queensland

Host: University of Florida

Field: Agriculture

Troy is an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow (Precision Agriculture) at the University of Southern Queensland where his career has focused on applying engineering technologies to agriculture. With research interests in controlled traffic farming, yield monitoring, precision agriculture (PA), remote sensing, agricultural mechanisation and weed management, Troy’s Fulbright journey will take him to the University of Florida to utilise on-farm technologies to benefit sugarcane production systems. The use of imagery and PA datasets will identify constraints and provide the ability for the system to be continually refined and updated, ensuring farming enterprises are more efficient and environmentally sustainable.

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded by the University of Wyoming

Home: University of Melbourne

Host: University of Wyoming

Field: American Politics

Tim is Professor in American Politics at the University of Melbourne. His latest book, In the Shadow of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump (Cambridge, 2020), has been called ‘a cogent, graceful, provocative account’ of its subject. Tim holds a PhD in political science from Boston College.

Tim's Fulbright at the University of Wyoming will explore the nature of 'red state' foreign policy.

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of New South Wales

Host: Kansas State University

Field: Minerals and Energy Resources

Peyman is an Associate Professor in Minerals and Energy Resources at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he leads a multidisciplinary research group on Multiscale Transport in Porous Systems (MUTRIS). He is also a Council Member for the International Society for Porous Media. His research is focused on fluid dynamics and transport phenomena in porous media with application to geological carbon dioxide storage, subsurface hydrology, minerals and hydrocarbon recovery and groundwater modelling. He performs theoretical, numerical and experimental research into the characterisation of heterogeneous porous materials at different scales.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Peyman will spend three months at Kansas State University to focus on hydrogen as a future clean fuel that produces no carbon emissions. This research collaboration will provide unprecedented insights into unique transport phenomena associated with underground hydrogen storage and reduce uncertainty related to largescale gas storage in geological formations.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RYAN NAYLOR

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded by Kansas State University

Home: The University of Sydney

Host: Kansas State University

Field: Higher Education

Ryan is Associate Professor (Education) in the Sydney School of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. His current research focuses primarily on understanding and addressing barriers to success in higher education. He has published widely on issues of access to higher education, equity interventions and their evaluation, and the experiences and expectations of students.

Ryan will use the Fulbright Scholarship to understand how students, particularly those from under-served or equity backgrounds, conceive of success at university and how their self-concept changes during the transition to university. This research will ensure students are better supported during transition, so that all students, regardless of background, are equally able to transition effectively to university study.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RACHEL STANDISH

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Murdoch University

Host: University of Wyoming

Field: Restoration Ecology

Rachel is Associate Professor of Ecology at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Her research is focused on restoration of native ecological communities that have been degraded or destroyed by human activity. Rachel is internationally recognised for her contributions to advancing the theory and practice of ecological restoration.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Rachel will collaborate with her hosts to assess benefits of soil microbes to rangeland restoration. Findings will be relevant to ranchers in Australia and the US where rangeland sustainability underpins socio-economic prosperity and environmental stewardship. She will also teach classes in vegetation and soil ecology.

PETER STANWELL

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Newcastle

Host: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Field: Medical Imaging

Peter is a medical imaging scientist undertaking biomedical research utilising advanced neuroimaging at the University of Newcastle. Alzheimer’s disease is a gradually progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting over 32-million people worldwide. The presence of beta-amyloid deposits is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, and is currently thought to commence 15-20 years before obvious cognitive decline.

As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Peter will collaborate with clinicians and biomedical researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on developing new imaging methods for the detection of beta-amyloid to improve early diagnosis and management of Alzheimer’s disease and improve outcomes for patients and their loved ones.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MICHAEL WALSH

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Sydney

Host: Kansas State University

Field: Alternative Weed Control Technologies

Michael is an Associate Professor and Director Weed Research at University of Sydney leading a research team focused on the development of alternative weed control technologies. His research has centred on the advancement of alternative weed control technologies aimed at reducing the destructive impact of herbicide resistance on grain cropping systems. For 25 years, Michael has focussed on the research and development of harvest weed seed control systems for Australian grain production. Inspired by the resilience and innovation of growers Michael continues working to progress the efficacy and opportunities for using these and other novel weed control systems.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Michael aims to improve the efficacy and durability of harvest weed seed control systems. He will work closely with Professor Mithila Jugulam, the weed science team at Kansas State University and their colleagues across major US cropping regions to expand and refine the operational use of these systems.