Meet our brilliant minds
Home to world-leading researchers and staff, Robinson Research Institute brings together the best and brightest to solve the challenges in reproductive, maternal, and child health.
Leadership team
Advisory board
- Professor Stephen Tong - Chair; Clinician Scientist, Professorial Fellow University of Melbourne, Director of Research at Mercy Hospital for Women
- David Cox – Public administration and government relations advisor
- Eloise Hall - Co-Founder and Managing Director, TABOO Period Products
- Professor David MacIntyre - Director, Robinson Research Institute
- Professor Laura Parry - Pro Vice Chancellor (Research Performance)
- Professor Jose Polo - Director of Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics
- Professor Michael Stark - Deputy Director, Clinical Research, Robinson Research Institute; Head of Neonatal Services, Women's and Children's Health Network
- Libby Trainor Parker - Writer, performer, speaker, teacher, parent, partner, business owner and health advocate
- Professor Mark von Itzstein AO - Distinguished Professor, Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics, Griffith University
Executive team
- Professor David MacIntyre - Chair; Director, Robinson Research Institute
- Professor Michael Stark - Deputy Chair; Deputy Director, Clinical Research
- Associate Professor Kylie Dunning - Leader Reproductive Success group
- Professor Jozef Gecz - Leader Neurogenetics & Cerebral Palsy
- Associate Professor Wendy Ingman - Leader Breast Biology & Cancer research group
- Professor Darryl Russell - Leader Ovarian & Reproductive Cancer group
- Dr Angela Noack - Institute Manager, Robinson Research Institute
- Dr Anna Fragkoudi - Chair, Early- and Mid-Career Researcher Council, Robinson Research Institute
Research leaders
- Dr Fatwa Adikusuma - Gene Editing Technology and Therapeutics
- A/Professor Jodie Avery - Chronic Reproductive Conditions, Endometriosis, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
- Professor Simon Barry - Molecular Immunology
- Dr Tina Bianco-Miotto - BM Epigenetics Lab
- Dr Alison Care - Vascular Immunology of Pregnancy
- Professor Gustavo Carneiro - Medical Machine Learning
- Professor Jennifer Couper - Diabetes
- Professor Michael Davies - Life Course & Intergenerational Health
- Professor Jodie Dodd - Lifelong Health Research
- A/Professor Martin Donnelley - Cystic Fibrosis
- A/Professor Kylie Dunning - Reproductive Success
- A/Professor Kathy Gatford - Early Origins of Health & Disease
- Professor Jozef Gecz - Neurogenetics
- Dr Jessica Grieger - Nutrition, Metabolic, and Reproductive Health
- Professor Frank Grutzner - Comparative Genome Biology
- Professor Bill Hague - Obstetric Medicine
- Professor Leonie Heilbronn - Obesity & Metabolism
- Professor Peter Hoffmann - Reproductive Systems Oncology
- Professor Louise Hull - Endometriosis
- Professor Wendy Ingman - Breast Biology & Cancer
- Dr Tanja Jankovic-Karasoulos - One-carbon Metabolism in Pregnancy and Disease
- Dr Lachlan Jolly - Neurobiology Research
- Professor Jon Jureidini - Critical & Ethical Mental Health
- A/Professor Karen Kind - (Epi)genetics of Development
- A/Professor Zohra Lassi - RMNCAH Continuum of Care
- Professor David MacIntyre - Microbiome
- Professor Helen Marshall - Vaccines & Infectious Disease.
- Dr Ali McCarron - Lung Genetic Therapies
- Professor Vivienne Moore - Life Course & Intergenerational Health
- Professor Robert Norman - Reproductive Endocrine & Medicine
- A/ Professor Mark Nottle - Reproductive Biotechnology
- Dr Lachlan Moldenhauer - Immune Dysfunction in Pregnancy
- Professor Martin Oehler - Reproductive Systems Oncology
- Professor Laura Parry - Vascular Health in Pregnancy
- Professor Sarah Robertson - Reproductive Immunology
- Professor Rebecca Robker - Ovarian Cell Biology and Embryology
- Professor Ray Rodgers - Deputy Director; Discovery Research
- Professor Darryl Russell - Ovarian & Reproductive Cancer
- Dr David Sharkey - Clinical Reproductive Immunology
- A/Professor Cheryl Shoubridge - Intellectual Disability
- Professor Michael Stark - Deputy Director; Clinical Research, Neonatal Medicine
Early- and mid-career researcher (EMCR) council
- Dr Anna Fragkoudi - Chair
- Dr Rebecca Thomson - Deputy Chair
- Dr Ali McCarron - EMCR
- Dr Mark McMillan - EMCR
- Dr Ashley Meakin - EMCR
- Dr Maleesa Pathirana - EMCR
- Dr Ronan Smith - EMCR
- Dr Ying Ying Wong - EMCR
- Dr Remy Young - EMCR
- Rachel Hosking - HDR
- Alison Deslandes - HDR
Professional staff
- Dr Angela Noack - Institute Manager
- Franca Bergamaschi - Executive Officer
- Simone Dautel - Research Consumer Engagement Officer
- Ashleigh Kenny - Program Officer
