Professor Richard Nunes-Vaz
Casual Academic
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
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
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 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 (incl security of Melbourne Commonwealth Games and APEC, 2006)
2006 TTCP Achievement Award (co-recipient) for "significant contribution to the theory and practice of Defence experimentation"
2007-14 Head, Counter-Terrorism & Security Analysis, Counter-Terrorism Security & Technol Ctr, DSTO
2007-14 strategic security research for Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet, Attorney-General's Department, Border Protection Command, Customs, the Office of Transport Security & Defence, including 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. Support Military Strategy Branch re national infrastructure risk and resilience, and futures.
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-present Member of OzSAGE (.org), a multi-disciplinary network of Australian experts providing independent advice on public health matters re COVID-19
BSc (Hons) physics, Imperial College, University of London
MSc physical oceanography, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor
PhD physical oceanography, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor
Graduate Certificate, tertiary education, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Graduate Certificate, systems engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide
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