Professor Richard Nunes-Vaz

1982 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, Flinders University
1988 Lecturer (oceanography) University of New South Wales, Canberra
1989 Chief Scientist on 2 major cruises on Australia's Oceanographic Research Vessel Franklin
1992 Senior Lecturer (oceanography) University of New South Wales, Canberra
1996 Founding Editor, Elsevier/Pergamon journal Marine Models Online. The first international, peer-reviewed journal to focus on interactive software, in this case models of marine processes.
1998 Elected to international Executive, Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia
2000 Senior Research Scientist (military experimentation), Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO), Adelaide
2005 Member of The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP, five eyes, US, UK, Canada, Aus & NZ) collaboration on Defence experimentation
2005 DSTO lead for support to Australian Defence Force domestic operations (eg, Melbourne Commonwealth Games, APEC 2006)
2006 TTCP Achievement Award (co-recipient) for "significant contribution to the theory and practice of Defence experimentation"
2007-14 Head of Counter-Terrorism & Security Analysis, within the newly formed Counter-Terrorism Security & Technol Ctr, DSTO. This involved strategic security research for Defence, the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet, Attorney-General's Department, Border Protection Command, Customs, and the Office of Transport Security. This included international collaborations and invited contributions to UK, US and Canadian strategic and major event security deliberations.
2014-16 Head of Strategic Security Risk Analysis, and Head of Strategic Analysis, DST Group, providing support to Military Strategy Branch regarding national infrastructure risk and resilience, and strategic futures assessment.
2014 Australian Research Council Assessor
2016 NATO Panel '‘Visual Analytics for Communicating Defense Investment Uncertainty and Risk'
2016 Morry Frost Award for Lifetime Achievement in Operations Research, Defence Science & Technology Group
2018 co-Director / Principal Consultant, Innanguard Pty Ltd, security risk management company
2018-present Professor, Torrens Resilience Initiative, CNHS, Flinders University of South Australia
2021 Member of OzSAGE (.org), a multi-disciplinary network of Australian experts providing independent advice on public health matters re COVID-19