The Management Committee’s role is to advise and assist the Director to oversee and review the delivery of programs of research, and other activities of the Centre, that are aligned with its strategies, vision, and key performance indicators.
Jo Whittaker
Director of ACEAS
Jo is Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, an ARC Future Fellow, and a Professor at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Science based at the University of Tasmania. Jo's research interests are predominantly in plate tectonics, marine geophysics and geodynamics.
Paul Tregoning
Deputy Director, ANU
Paul uses space-geodetic observations to study changes in the Earth caused by geophysical processes such as tectonic deformation, tidal deformation, and climate-driven variations in sea level and polar ice caps.
Matt England
Deputy Director, UNSW
Matt’s research seeks to understand large-scale ocean circulation and its influence on regional and global climate—from the tropics to Antarctica—on timescales of seasons to millennia.
Zanna Chase
Deputy Director, UTas
Zanna’s research focus is the interaction of chemical cycles and biological activity in the oceans. She looks at how these are affected by climate and the role of the Southern Ocean in long term climate change.
Anya Reading
Program 1 Research Leader
Anya employs innovative approaches in data science to build on a foundation of experimental field seismology in challenging regions such as Antarctica. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on interactions between the deep Earth and ice sheets.
Nicole Hill
Program 2 Research Leader
Nicole’s expertise spans a range of applied marine ecology topics. She focuses on understanding, quantifying and mapping biodiversity to support decision-making in the marine environment, including the Antarctic.
Duanne White
Program 3 Research Leader
Duanne is interested in the links between landscape, climate and critters, and how these have changed during the past 2 million years. He also generates records of past ice sheet changes to inform ice sheet model development and projections of future sea level rise.
Carl Bennett
Business Manager
Catalina Aguilar
Project Officer
Catalina is the Project Officer for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science.
Claire Yung
ECR Representative
Claire is a PhD student at the Australian National University interested in the physics of the ocean near Antarctica and in the Southern Ocean. She completed a Bachelor of Philosophy at the ANU in 2021, where her Honours project investigated topographic hotspots of upwelling in the Southern Ocean and their physical mechanisms. She has also spent time at the University of Sydney researching eddy contributions to global ocean heat transport. In her PhD, she is studying ice-ocean interactions near Antarctica and their implementation in ocean models.