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Dr. Melissa Kozul is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She obtained her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2018 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Thermo Fluids Research Group at NTNU, Norway for three years prior to her current appointment. Her research expertise is in the high-fidelity simulations of fundamental turbulent flows that feature critically in energy and transport technologies. To date her research interests have included wall-bounded flows, homogeneous isotropic turbulence and turbulent multiphase flows. She has extensive experience in designing and executing massively parallel simulations and collaborated with the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth, Australia as part of the Pawsey Centre for Extreme Scale Readiness (PaCER) scheme. Her most recent work focuses on high-fidelity numerical simulation of turbomachinery flows.

Dr. Sarah Pearce, SKA-Low Telescope Director Dr. Sarah Pearce joined SKAO in July 2021 as Director of the SKA-Low Telescope. There she leads a growing team in Australia preparing for deployment, commissioning, and operations of the world’s largest low frequency telescope, to be built at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia, on Wajarri Yamaji country. Before joining SKAO, Dr Pearce was with CSIRO for 10 years as the Deputy Director of CSIRO Space & Astronomy and was Acting CSIRO Chief Scientist from January 2021 until her move to SKAO. Dr Pearce led CSIRO’s engagement in the SKA and was Australia’s science representative on the negotiating team for the SKA Treaty. She also established CSIRO’s Space research program, as well as the cross-organisational Centre for Earth Observation

Prof. Richard D. Sandberg is Chair Professor of Computational Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He also leads the program of Power Generation and Transport of the Melbourne Energy Institute. His main interests are in (i) high-fidelity simulation of transitional and turbulent flows to gain physical understanding of flow and noise generation mechanisms, (ii) pursuing novel machine-learning approaches to help assess and improve low-order models that can be employed in an industrial context. He received his PhD in 2004 in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Arizona and prior to joining the University of Melbourne, he was a Professor of Fluid Dynamics and Aeroacoustics in the Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics research group at the University of Southampton and headed the UK Turbulence Consortium (www.turbulence.ac.uk), coordinating the work packages for compressible flows and flow visualisations and databases. He was awarded a veski innovation fellowship in July 2015 entitled: “Impacting Industry by enabling a step-change in simulation fidelity for flow and noise problems” and has been granted an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for 2020-2024 to work on integrating high-fidelity simulation and machine-learning based turbulence modelling. Between 2016 and 2019 he was member of the Australian National Computational Merit Allocation Committee. He has coordinated many large-scale high-fidelity turbomachinery simulation projects, with awards from INCITE, ALCC, PRACE and NCMAS. He is an editor for Journal of Turbomachinery, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics and a member of ASME’s Gas Turbine Technology Group (GTTG) leadership team