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AURIN and Geoscape announce partnership to provide access to affordable built environment data

AURIN is pleased to announce that we have partnered with Geoscape Australia to enable access to their high-quality data products for researchers. Geoscape combines authoritative government data with spatial data derived from satellite and aerial imagery to deliver a clear picture of our cities, regional centres, and rural communities as they change. Geoscape location data […]

Javed de Costa joins AURIN

Javed de Costa (Photo by Rohit Gupta)

AURIN is glad to welcome Javed de Costa as a Software Developer, focusing on the Australian Transport Research Cloud (ATRC) project. He brings with him several years of experience across a variety of roles, including in software development, design and education. Javed holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne and […]

AusEnHealth: An Australian Environmental Health
Digital Twin

AusEnHealth

Since January 2021, AURIN has been involved in laying the foundation for an open-access Australian Environmental Health (AusEnHealth) Strategic Planning Digital Twin. This ambitious one-year pilot project aims to understand the landscape of Australian environmental health data collection at both state and national levels. The AusEnHealth project has acted as a means for testing, learning, […]

AURIN welcomes Sadia Waleem

Sadia

We are excited to welcome Sadia Waleem to AURIN. Bringing more than a decade of experience in web and mobile application development on various technological platforms, she joins the eInfrastructure team as a Full Stack Software Engineer. In 2017, Sadia completed her master’s in information technology from the University of Melbourne and has been working […]

Dilara Ozer joins AURIN

Photograph of Dilara Ozer

We are delighted to welcome Dilara Ozer, who has joined AURIN as a Contracts and Commercial Officer. She will be working closely with the Commercial Partnerships team to help develop and drive AURIN development initiatives, as well as strengthen relationships and connections with other organisations. Dilara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, with majors in […]

Epidemiological expertise and project design updates

Futureistic health data visualisation

This project received investment from the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN), the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and the Population Health Research Network (PHRN). AURIN, the ARDC and the PHRN are funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)

Emeritus Professor Linda Kristjanson AO joins AURIN Management Board

Linda Kristjanson Welcome ost

We would like to extend a warm welcome to Emeritus Professor Linda Kristjanson AO, who joins AURIN’s Management Board. Linda brings a wealth of experience in governance, research strategy, and collaborative science to her role as an AURIN board member. Linda is currently non-executive director of Seek, president of the National Stroke Foundation, and chair […]

AURIN welcomes new board member Lesley Arnold

Lesley Arnold

We would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Lesley Arnold, who recently joined the AURIN Management Board. Lesley brings a wealth of experience, knowledge, and perspective to AURIN as a leader in spatial data, strategy, and governance. Her insights will help further our vision of improving access to the data and tools needed […]

Mzingisi Mqhum joins the AURIN outreach team

We are happy to welcome Mzingisi Mqhum as an Outreach & Communications Officer. Early in his career, Mzingisi worked as a high school teacher in Botswana. After relocating to Perth, Australia, he decided his calling was working with underrepresented groups as a diversity, equity, and inclusion strategist and project officer to serve their communities and […]

AURIN welcomes Loren Bruns Jr.

Photograph of Loren Bruns Jr.

We are happy to announce that Dr. Loren Bruns Jr. has joined AURIN as our eInfrastructure Team Lead. Loren brings more than two decades of experience in both web-based software development and academic research. This background gives him a unique ability to understand and communicate with both domain experts and software developers at a deep […]

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