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eResearch Analysts

The heart of the Skills Development group is our team of eResearch Analysts — research support professionals embedded within our Member institutions. 

Our eResearch Analyst team has a wealth of experience in data-intensive research and research computing support. All are dedicated to helping our Members’ staff and students make the best use of technology to improve their research outcomes. 

The eResearch Analysts provide mentoring, coaching and training to researchers from their host institutions. They each have a broad range of skills to achieve this, along with the capability to call on the knowledge of the whole Skills Development team and the rest of QCIF when this can deliver a better outcome for the researcher.

QCIF’s eResearch Analysts work alongside institutional colleagues in research computing, libraries and IT. In this way, they are fully informed to advise researchers on the most appropriate resources available, be they within their host institution, through QCIF, or through national schemes. 

Testimonials

“It was fantastic to receive support from knowledgeable analysts willing to enable innovative ideas and enhance user expertise.”

— Cesar Herrera Acosta, Coastal Ecology PhD student, JCU


“[The QCIF eResearch Analyst] saved us a lot of time and confusion, enabling us to get on with our research.”

— Bruen Smith, Mechatronic Research Engineer, USQ

Contact Us

Please contact your local eResearch Analyst for any questions about QCIF and to learn how they can support your research.

The University of Queensland

Dr David Green

ph +61 7 3346 6635
email rcc-support@uq.edu.au

David is a QCIF eResearch Analyst and HPC Manager at The University of Queensland’s Research Computing Centre. He has long been using computers to “figure stuff out” and enjoys working with researchers to help them do the same. He was an academic in the Applied Physics and Computer Systems departments at the University of Technology, Sydney for almost 15 years. He has worked in research computing support roles at UQ since 2007.

Dr Marlies Hankel

ph +61 7 3365 4138
email rcc-support@uq.edu.au

Marlies is a QCIF eResearch Analyst and researcher. She has over ten years’ experience in high performance computing and cluster management. Her research interests include Quantum Dynamics and Computational Nanotechnology. Her main roles include looking after UQ’s HPC cluster users and QCIF’s partner share at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). If you are interested in obtaining computational time at the national compute facilities, please contact Marlies.

Queensland University of Technology

Craig Windell

ph +61 7 3138 6017
email eResearch@qut.edu.au

Craig is the QCIF eResearch Analyst at QUT. Craig is an IT professional with many years of experience at QUT assisting and supporting researchers to understand and use IT systems. He has performed a number of IT roles from desktop support, system administrating and system design. He has worked within QUT’s Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, ITS and more recently in cloud computing development and operations for the Visualisation and eResearch Group.

Griffith University

Isaac Jennings
Isaac Jennings

ph +61 7 3735 6668
email eResearch-support@griffith.edu.au

Isaac is a QCIF eResearch Analyst at Griffith University. Prior to joining Griffith, he worked in various roles within the Department of Defence and as a defence contractor. Isaac has a strong background in data science and is currently completing a Master’s in Computer Science. Feel free to ask him any questions about programming, high-performance computing, UX/UI, or anything else eResearch- or technology-related. If he doesn’t know the answer, he will know someone who does!

CQUniversity

Jason Bell

email eresearch@cqu.edu.au 

Jason is a QCIF eResearch Analyst at CQU. He provides high-performance computing support and technical advice to CQU researchers. Jason’s research interests include video collaboration/conferencing tools, nonlinear optimisation, evolutionary algorithms, high-performance computing, distributed and parallel computing, and robotics.

Billy Kenzler
Billy Kenzler

email eresearch@cqu.edu.au

Billy is a QCIF eResearch Analyst at CQU. He has been a hardware enthusiast for more than a decade and has been supporting CQU professionally from the IT Help Desk since 2019. He provides researchers with general IT support and solutions, assistance with managing and storing their data and accessing CQU’s HPC Marie Curie. He is responsible for promoting dedicated research storage, HPC solutions and QCIF services to researchers. His research interests include high-performance computing, network security and advancements in computing hardware.

James Cook University

Pauline Lawrey
Pauline Lawrey

ph +61 410 463 063
email eResearch@jcu.edu.au

Pauline is a QCIF eResearch Analyst at James Cook University. She has worked as an IT professional in the private sector for more than 20 years and most recently has been doing project work with the JCU eResearch Centre. She has skills in a variety of programming languages, including Python, Bash, and JavaScript, and has experience with research data transformation, access and transfer. Pauline will assist in the promotion and support of QCIF services to JCU researchers, including research computing, the technical side of data management, and digital skills training. Ask her about anything to do with eResearch, and if she doesn’t know she will try to find someone who does.

Dr Erin Graham
Dr Erin Graham

ph +61 7 4781 4981
email eResearch@jcu.edu.au

Erin joins Pauline as a QCIF eResearch Analyst at James Cook University. Alongside Pauline, she is responsible for raising awareness about the availability of QCIF infrastructure and cloud computing services for researchers and assisting researchers with their use. Erin started her career in IT before completing a PhD degree in Marine Biology at JCU and working as a postdoc for JCU’s eResearch Centre. She has experience in R and Python programming, is a long-term user of high-performance computing, and has familiarity with a wide range of statistical modelling, GIS and remote sensing techniques.


University of Southern Queensland

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Richard Young

email eResearchServices@usq.edu.au

Richard is the temporary QCIF eResearch Analyst at UniSQ. He joined QCIF in early 2023. His main roles include providing support for high-performance computing and technical advice to UniSQ researchers. In his 25 years at UniSQ, Richard has had various positions from computing laboratory manager to data centre manager. He has interests in high-performance computing, improving research usage of a HPC, and improving data storage and management. Please contact Richard for advice about research data management, data storage, research computing, support and digital skills training.

University of the Sunshine Coast

Danny Meloncelli
Dr Daniel (Danny) Meloncelli

email eResearch@usc.edu.au

Danny is a QCIF eResearch Analyst at UniSC. He has more than 10 years of experience in supporting students and researchers at UniSC as a Learning Adviser, specialising in STEM subjects. He has experience with using R, Python, and IBM SPSS for statistical analysis. He is due to finish a Master of Data Science from UNSW in June 2023. He completed a PhD at UniSC in Analytical Chemistry in 2019, specialising in chemically fingerprinting high-quality honey via Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography. USC researchers, please feel free to ask Danny questions about anything eResearch- or technology-related. If he doesn’t know the answer, he will know someone who does!

Southern Cross University

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Dr Adewuyi (Ade) Ayodele Adeyinka

Dr Adewuyi (Ade) Ayodele Adeyinka

email ade.adeyinka@scu.edu.au

Ade is a QCIF Digital Research Analyst at SCU. He is responsible for research support and training. He has a PhD from UniSQ in Finance and is a specialist in the application of financial and statistical models in proffering solutions to climate risk in agriculture. He previously worked as an eResearch Analyst at UniSQ. He has more than 15 years of experience in teaching and research at the university level as well as industry experience in banking. Please contact Ade for advice on research data management, storage and research computing, support and training.