Our team

Our carbon fibre experts are co-located at Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds campus where they have access to Deakin’s Carbon Nexus facility.

• Shaun Smith (Group Leader)
• Andrew Abbott (Team Leader)
• Ian Blanchonette (Team Leader)
• Andrew Jones (Team Leader)
• Tony Pierlot (Characterisation)
• Melissa Skidmore (Polymer development)
• Peter Lynch (X-ray analysis)
• Menghe Miao (Carbonisation)
• Jasjeet Kaur (Wet spinning)
• Linda Hillbrick (Wet spinning)
• Luke Grundy (Polymer solutions)
• Andrea Wilde (Spectroscopy)
• David Fox (X-ray analysis)