Our Team

Dr Nathalie Piperidis

Cytogeneticist

Linda DiMaggio

Variety Officer

Sanjaya Timilsina

Variety Officer

Dr Yichen Kang

Plant Breeder

Visu Wickramasinghe

Tissue Culture Manager

Dr Garry Rosewarne

General Manager - Variety Development

Dr Lihan Zhao

Tissue Culture Scientist

Dr Chuong Ngo

Disease Diagnostic Leader

Dr Sijesh Natarajan

Phenomics Scientist

Roy Parfitt

Variety Development Manager, Southern and NSW

Dr Shamsul Bhuiyan

Manager Biosecurity and Disease Screening

Dr Yue (Jenny) Sun

Genomics Scientist

Dr Fengduo Hu

Variety Development Manager, Herbert

Mr Christopher Tom

Variety Officer, Central

Ms Emily Deomano

Statistician and Data Scientist

Mr Anthony Cattle

Variety Officer NSW

Dr George Piperidis

Variety Development Manager, Central

Visu Wickramasinghe

Tissue Culture Manager

Paul Calcino

District Manager, Far North

Joel Simpson

NIR Senior Engineer

Dr Graeme Doole

General Manager - Adoption

Dr Simon Clarke

Environmental Sustainability Scientist

Dr Danielle Skocaj

Principal Agronomist

Dr Heidi du Clou

Head of Laboratory Services

Dr Barry Salter

Manager, Translation Research

Mr Steve Staunton

NIR Service Leader

Dr Seona Casonato

Leader Field Pathology

Ms Emilie Fillols

Weed Scientist

Dr Kevin Powell

Entomology Leader

Dylan Wedel

District Manager, Central

Lisa Devereaux

District Manager, Southern

Terry Granshaw

District Manager, Burdekin

Mr Armin Wessel

Project Officer Burdekin Irrigation Project

Mr Matt Schembri

Project Officer, Central

Mr Glen Park

District Delivery Officer

Jessica Portch

District Manager, North

Mr Phil Lethbridge

NIR Developer