Alan R. Duffy

I am the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Flagship Initiatives at Swinburne University Of Technology, driving large and ambitious transdisciplinary research across our flagship research areas (Space/Aerospace, MedTech Health, Hydrogen and Renewables) by actively engaging with external organisations (including government, industry, NGOs) to identify large-scale opportunities that require university-wide collaboration and the formation of coalitions of universities and partners. I was the founding Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne between 2021 - 2023. The Institute's multi-disciplinary team helped companies and communities on Earth using space. My background is in computational astrophysics and cosmology, but have gained significant experience in communicating that science. I investigate how galaxies form within vast clouds of dark matter, a gravitating component of our Universe that still is of unknown nature. I then try to explain these discoveries across space science to as wide an audience as possible.