Research Scientists

Dr Veena Nagaraj

Research Scientist, Coastal Vegetation & Food Webs

Dr Veena Nagaraj joined CSIRO’s CarbonLock Future Science Platform as a Research Scientist in November 2022.
She is a microbiologist and molecular biologist with nine years of research experience and competence across multidisciplinary areas in the field of environmental and industrial biotechnology.

CERC Engineering Fellow, Reservoir Productivity

Yongqiang Chen joined the CarbonLock FSP as a CERC Fellow in November 2022.
He obtained his PhD degree on Petroleum Engineering from Curtin University in 2019 working intensively on Smart Waterflooding through multi-scale experiments and geochemical modellings.

Process Engineer – Projects Officer, Zero Emissions, ENERGY

Nouman Mirza is part of Sustainable Carbon Technologies group that is progressing the emissions reduction work in the areas of carbon capture and more specifically direct air capture.
Nouman has a PhD in carbon capture technologies and worked extensively (pilot and laboratory scales) in both the carbon capture/direct air capture and membrane technologies for separating various process streams. His current work focuses on developing solvents and gas-liquid contactors for direct air capture and integrating membrane technology with carbon capture/direct air capture technology.