Senior interdisciplinary lecturer at the University of Sydney, Portfolio of the Deputy-Vice Chancellor Education (Enterprise and Engagement) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Previously Senior Advisor Strategy Design in the Portfolio of the Vice-President (Strategy) at the University of Sydney.
Teaching
At the University of Sydney, I primarily teach project-based interdisciplinary undergraduate units. Working with our industry and community partners, I mentor student groups towards solving authentic complex problems collaboratively.
Research
My research explores networks of influence: Their strategic potential and unintended consequences. Specific fields of interest include interactions between medically-related industry and the public health system, and teamwork processes and their effects on learning, problem solving and performance.
Consulting
Combining data science with systems thinking, I provide analytical, advisory and facilitation services to not-for-profit and for-purpose organisations on issues of data strategy, performance measurement and impact evaluation.
Past Experience
In 2019 I completed a Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education) at the University of Sydney.
From 2013 – 2018 I served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Judith and David Coffey Life Lab under the guidance of Professor Jean Yang at the Charles Perkins Centre at The University of Sydney. Within the multidisciplinary Charles Perkins Centre this is a new kind of graduate and postgraduate training environment at the interface between life, social, health, economic, environmental, engineering, and physical sciences.
In 2013 I was awarded my PhD from the University of Sydney Business School in the Discipline of Marketing under the supervision of Prof. Ian Wilkinson, an internationally-recognized expert in business to business marketing, with an emphasis on the nature and role of business relations and networks. My dissertation was the first generative explanation of the self-organisation of business networks and was funded by the Australian Research Council.
I earned a Master of Science (Statistics) from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a thesis on the Visualization of Variable Importance in Benchmark Studies, supervised by Prof. Friedrich Leisch. I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy & Economics from the University of Bayreuth under the supervision of Prof. Rainer Hegselmann.