Our people

Professor Shawkat Alam is a Professor of International and Environmental Law at Macquarie Law School. Specialising in international law, he focuses on environmental law, trade, sustainable development, and human rights.

His research focuses on the opportunities and challenges faced by developing economies to achieve sustainable development by examining legal, institutional and policy frameworks.

Research interests include:

• International trade, investment and sustainable development
• Environmental law and policy
• Governance and public policy
• Climate change, human rights, sustainable development
• Global south.

Darren Bagnall is a professor in electrical and electronic engineering, a director of Macquarie Sustainable Energy Research Centre, and an independent non-executive director at Bell Resources. He was dean of engineering from August 2017 to July 2022. 

His research interests include: 

• the development of opto-electronic semiconductor devices and systems 
• the integration and uptake of renewable energy systems.

Binh is an associate professor in the Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance. Her research interests include the interface between strategy and management control systems, climate change and emission trading, risk management, and accounting education. 

Her projects examine carbon accounting and assurance, climate risk disclosures, and the role played by accounting in meeting climate change challenges.

Peter is an associate professor of environmental planning and policy in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Peter undertakes interdisciplinary research, bridging the theoretical and scholarly focus of academic inquiry with a problem orientation to support sustainability outcomes for society. 

Prior to his academic career, he worked in state and local government and consultancy where he held senior roles within the water, environmental protection and management, and energy areas.

Sara is a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering. She also serves as the associate director of Smart Green Cities (SGC) and is vice chair of IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) NSW Section.

Her research interests include:

• electric vehicle charging (V2G/G2V) integration and wireless technology
• smart grid and renewable energy integration
• power system protection
• power systems and power quality
• power control and energy markets.

Lin is a research fellow in the Centre for Risk Analytics. She has a broad range of research interests around electricity markets, renewable and sustainable energy, financial risk management, market microstructure, financial econometrics, and data science and business analytics areas. 

She also has years of consultancy and analytics experience in energy, financial markets and the banking industry.

Nazmul currently holds the position of director of education within the School of Engineering. 

Nazmul has used the design and development of numerous courses to educate and inspire a generation of new engineers in the practice of sustainability in topics such as: 

• energy
• resources recovery
• circular economy
• life-cycle analysis, 
• recycling
• and end-of-life considerations in product design in both UG and PG areas.

Nino is a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Her research expertise is based on broad experience in the development of statistical methodologies applicable to industrial and interdisciplinary research problems.

Marjan is a lecturer and the course director of the Bachelor of Economics program in the Department of Economics. Her primary fields of research are energy and environmental economics. 

Marjan completed a second PhD at Macquarie University on the linkages between carbon emissions and energy markets. She has published in high impact international journals, including Energy Economics and Energy Policy.

Fatemeh is academic lead, sustainability, in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. She is currently a chief investigator at Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre and SmartCrete Cooperative Research Centre, and the deputy director of Macquarie Sustainable Energy Research Centre.

Hanlin is a professor in the Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics. He develops methods for modelling a time series of random functions in a graphical representation of curves, images, or shapes and tests these methods in applications to actuarial science, demography, and empirical finance. 

His research interests include:

• functional data analysis
• nonparametric and semiparametric statistics
• bayesian econometrics
• computational statistics
• demographic forecasting.

Pavel is a professor in the Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics. He has worked in the area of financial risk, leading research and industry commercial projects on:

• modelling of operational and credit risks
• longevity and mortality
• retirement products
• option pricing
• insurance
• modelling commodities and foreign exchange; and the development of relevant numerical methods and software.

Georgy is associate professor in statistics in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. His research interests include:

• Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, Cross-Entropy method
• statistical modelling and applications in biology, bioinformatics, finance and insurance
• theory and applications of random processes, optimal stopping rules
• sequential analysis, asymptotic theory, change-point problem.

Ben is associate professor in the School of Social Sciences. His research explores financing models for social policy and the interaction between social and ecological protection, focusing on how private and public finance are combined. 

Drawing on lessons from social policy, he has published on social attitudes to climate policy and the political and distributive implications of different climate policy approaches.

Chi is a senior lecturer in actuarial studies and business analytics. His main research interests are investment analysis, risk quantification and optimal risk management. 

His work delves deeply into climate-related hazards, including but not limited to bushfires, floods and erosion risks. His findings provide essential insights for effective risk management strategies in a changing environment.

Yuming is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Engineering, specializing in electrochemical carbon conversion. He earned his PhD from the University of Queensland before joining Macquarie University. His research focuses on advancing sustainable technologies for carbon management.

His research interests include:

• High-current density CO2 electrolysis 
  
• Integration of carbon capture and utilisation (CCU)
• Design and development of electrolysers and electrolysis systems.

Colin (Jinhui) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics. He has years of experience in delivering lectures for a broad range of actuarial and applied finance units. 

His research areas include: 

• natural hazards
• energy markets 
• life cycle models
• optimal control
• financial strategy
• derivative pricing.

Clara is associate professor in the Department of Applied Finance, and a member of the Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance. 

Her research interests include: corporate finance, and its connection with capital markets and asset pricing, corporate debt and banking.