
Who we are
FrontierSI, a not-for-profit company, was established following 16 years of operations as the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information. We exist to deliver major benefits to governments, industry and the community using our deep expertise in spatial mapping, infrastructures, positioning, geodesy, analytics and standards. Our history and experience set us apart from any other company in Australia and New Zealand. Join FrontierSI, invest in the future.
OUR VALUES
We value collaboration, future focus, agility, integrity, and communication.
- We are solutions-driven and achieve high quality outcomes through collaboration, being open-minded and embracing inclusion, working together as a team internally, and with our partners and clients;
- We are future-focused, looking at what’s next: from tapping into the most promising technologies through to new application areas, to ensure we deliver;
- We respond to our partner needs with agility, being flexible and deploying teams and effort as needed to adapt to our rapidly changing environment;
- We work with integrity, we do what we say, and we are professional and respectful of others;
- We communicate and share information effectively, we listen first, seek to understand other perspectives and simplify complex concepts into understandable stories.
Our Team
Executive Management
Graeme Kernich
Kate Williams
Patricia Sturgess
Phil Delaney
Business Development
Kate Williams
Paula Fiévez
Phil Delaney
Christopher Blackstock
Nic Prassopoulos
Kat Salm
Operations
Patricia Sturgess
Samantha Bain
Wendy Jackson
Serena Sun
Research & Innovation
Phil Delaney
Serryn Eagleson
Clive Fraser
Laura Spelbrink
Dan Woodrow
Jess Keysers
Eldar Rubinov
Lachlan Hurst
TO Chan
Chris Marshall
Caitlin Adams
Fernando Matsunaga
Ken Harima
Rowan Winsemius
Ronald Maj
Alex Linossier
Jia-Urnn Lee
Rupert Brown
Jasmine Muir
Brendon McAtee
Bogdan Matviichuk
Roshni Sharma
Jacob Shearer
Lachlan Ng
Lavender (Qingxiang) Liu
Luis Elneser
Claire Fisk
Madeleine Seehaber
Science Leaders
Phil Collier
Ivana Ivanova
Matt Duckham
Matthew Wilson
Chris Pettit
Gillian Sparkes AM
Chris Thomas
Paul Farrell
Wendy Lawson
Dr James Johnson
Graeme Kernich
Melanie Plumb
Michelle McLean
core-research
application-areas
Gillian Sparkes AM
Gillian Sparkes AM's Bio
Gillian Sparkes AM FAICD is the Board Chair and Victoria’s Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability. She is leading reforms in environmental monitoring, assessment and reporting in Victoria, including advocating better use of spatial information, data analytics and citizen science. She is a Commissioner of the Victorian Building Authority, a Director of the Country Fire Authority, Industry Capability Network Vic, the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation and is Chair of the Western Port Integrated Water Management Forum, and a•Trustee of The Royal Society of Victoria. . Dr Sparkes has been instrumental in key improvements in how the Victorian Government pursues its digital transformation agenda for better environmental outcomes, and was recently recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday honours for significant service to environmental sustainability, and to public administration.
Chris Thomas
Chris Thomas's Bio
Chris specialises in digital re-engineering, technology and venture capital investment. Chris first became a director of a listed technology company in 1987 and is a non-executive director of Servco Australia, which operates automotive dealerships throughout Australia. Chris is also a member of the Victorian Council of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Chris is a graduate of The University of Adelaide and holds a Master’s in Management (Technology) from The University of Melbourne.
Paul Farrell
Paul Farrell's Bio
Paul Farrell is the CEO of NGIS Australia. He has worked with the business for 24 years in a variety of locations and helped formed significant partnerships with players such as Google, Esri and Microsoft. Paul is involved in many boards, including Frontier SI, Pointerra and the WA Regional Development Trust. He is a co-founder of the APSEA Awards and SSSI Young Spatial Professionals, a past National Chairman of SIBA (Spatial Industry Business Association) and was previously a board member for AIIA (Australian Information Industry Association).
Wendy Lawson
Wendy Lawson's Bio
Professor Wendy Lawson is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the Auckland University of Technology and the former Pro Vice Chancellor of Science at the University of Canterbury. She is a glaciologist with a passion for field work and has more than 30 years of experience of remote fieldwork in polar and alpine environments, including in Greenland, Svalbard, Alaska and Arctic Norway – as well as Antarctica. Also renowned for her commitment to the geospatial industry, in 2017 she received international recognition for this aspect of her work, winning the prestigious Professional of the Year Award at the annual Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards in Sydney.
Dr James Johnson
Dr James Johnson's Bio
Dr James Johnson has been the Chief Executive Officer of Geoscience Australia since April 2017. A geologist with over 35 years’ experience, including private sector mining and mineral exploration, James has led teams of geoscientists for 25 years with a range of diverse achievements. James joined Geoscience Australia in 2006 and has been head of various divisions with diverse duties including carriage of energy and mineral programs. James is currently on the board of The National Computational Infrastructure and is a member of the Australian Antarctic Science Council, CSIRO Mineral Resources Advisory Group, the Australian Climate Service Program Control Group, and the Champions of Change STEM Group. In addition, James is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. James’ vision for Geoscience Australia is one of unity in deploying geoscience for the economic, social and environmental benefit of Australians. He is driving a strong agenda of inclusiveness, particularly new programs to engage with Australia’s First Nations People.
Graeme Kernich
Graeme Kernich's Bio
Graeme has been CEO of FrontierSI since July 2018. Graeme previously served as CEO and Deputy CEO for the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, where he was responsible for operations, including finance, compliance, legals, corporate governance, business development and commercialisation. His prior experience includes technology transfer, including negotiation of commercial agreements, commercial and route-to-market strategies, intellectual property management, licencing and project planning.
Melanie Plumb
Melanie Plumb's Bio
Melanie is a CPA and Corporate Governance professional with prior experience in both the FMCG and retail sectors. She enjoys the challenge of balancing the various facets of her Board role, and striving to provide optimal service to FrontierSI. Out of hours you can find Melanie catching up with friends or planning her next family travel adventure, in between taxiing her sons to their various sporting activities.
Michelle McLean
Michelle McLean's Bio
Michelle is the Chief Commissioner of the Victorian Building Authority. She is an experienced non-executive board director and business advisor, and holds directorships of a number of private entities. She is the Deputy Chairman of the Country Fire Authority (CFA) a volunteer and community-based fire and emergency services organisation. She also chairs the CFA Finance, Risk and Audit committee. From 1995 to 2018 Michelle was Managing Partner/CEO of Cornwall Stodart (Lawyers). Throughout this period, Michelle also spent several years on various boards and committees.
Graeme Kernich
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Chief Executive Officer
Graeme Kernich's Bio
Graeme is the CEO of FrontierSI. He truly believes better use of spatial data will drive enhanced decision making and service provision and that this needs multidisciplinary partnerships to happen. Graeme is focussed on building large-scale initiatives that matter. He combines a deep understanding of spatial’s value to the world, with sectoral experience, and tertiary qualifications (PhD, MBA, BAgricSc(Hons), GradDip AppCorpGov). Out of hours kids, dogs, and the Collingwood Football Club fill his time. He aspires to get back on the bike, in the pool and on the road. He likes the Facebook motto: Done is Better than Perfect.
Phil Collier
Organisation
Collier Geodetic Solutions
External Roles
Consultant - Geodesy and Positioning
Kate Williams
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Chief Business Officer
Kate Williams's Bio
A certified spatial professional and leader, Kate brings with her extensive experience in data and analytics across the data management, utilities, natural resource management, transport, and digital sectors. Kate is well known in the spatial industry for her involvement in the private sector and most recently in the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP), having also led projects across Australia and the USA. A Geomatic Engineering and Arts graduate from Melbourne University and joint recipient of the Women’s Leadership award in the Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards (2019), Kate’s recent role at the DELWP involved leading several innovation pilots which tested industry applications of a modernised cadastre and future digital workflows including integrated 3D and BIM data models, and DELWPs first Digital Twin.
Patricia Sturgess
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Chief Operating Officer
Patricia Sturgess's Bio
Trish is an innovative business leader and strategic driver, adept at developing systems and processes for rapidly growing organisations, specialising in problem solving through financial scenario modelling and business planning. Trish is a CPA and CIMA professional with over 15 years’ experience working across multiple industries.
Paula Fiévez
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Head, Partner Engagement and Health Lead
Paula Fiévez's Bio
Paula is an experienced operations manager with a special interest in seeing the successful translation of health research into practice. She brings with her a unique skill set developed across a broad range of business functions within private enterprise, the not-for-profit and education sectors. Paula is a strategist who insists on seeing the big picture in order to map out a feasible and effective pathway forward. She is a planner. When she is not planning in her day job she is planning family and friends adventure weekends, games nights or endurance challenges to such detail that her friends don’t open her emails anymore.
Phil Delaney
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Deputy CEO
Phil Delaney's Bio
Phil is a problem solver who thrives in complex and uncertain environments. Throw any challenge his way and he will find a unique and positive solution. With a background in Geomatic Engineering, and a Master of Business Administration, he strives to translate complex technology and problems into clear needs and focussed business strategy. Phil is eternally optimistic, and always seeks to break out from business as usual approaches. As Deputy CEO, he helps organisations see the big picture, and deliver the projects to get them there.
Christopher Blackstock
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Business Development Manager
Christopher Blackstock's Bio
Chris is a strategic spatial leader with proven success designing and delivering innovative spatial initiatives, strategies, solutions and infrastructures in both Australia and North America. He enjoys bringing together technical, industry, and academic leaders with corporate and government decision makers to drive transformative, disruptive and innovative spatial improvements and value. When not in the office, Chris can be found fly fishing down a river somewhere, or taking his kids to the beach.
Serryn Eagleson
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Industry Engagement Manager
Serryn Eagleson's Bio
Serryn enjoys applying her expertise in spatial data infrastructures to develop ways to improve the use of spatial information. Serryn previously held the role of University Partnerships Manager at CSIRO’s Data61. She has a PhD from The University of Melbourne specialising in the design of business rules and criteria that improve the way data is captured for demographic modelling and integration; in recognition for her work she was awarded a prestigious Victorian Fellowship. Serryn completed her post-doctoral research at Curtin University (WA) in applying spatial analysis to bio-surveillance for the automated detection of disease outbreaks. She has over 15 years of applied experience in spatial modelling and applying this expertise to inform urban planning. In her spare time, Serryn is working towards her orange belt in karate and is the designated goal shooter in her local netball team.
Clive Fraser
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Defence Program Manager
Clive Fraser's Bio
Professor Clive Fraser is currently the Defence Program Manager at FrontierSI, and a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Prof. Fraser’s particular areas of research interest lie in digital close-range photogrammetry, including 3D forensic analysis and industrial measurement systems, and the metric exploitation of both drone and high-resolution satellite imagery. He is a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and he is an Honorary Member of The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society (UK). In recognition of his academic and professional work, which include authorship of more than 380 scientific publications, he has earned numerous international awards.
Samantha Bain
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Senior Finance Manager
Samantha Bain's Bio
As Senior Finance Manager, Samantha (Sam) manages all financial matters of FrontierSI. She is a CPA, holds a Bachelor of Commerce, and has over 15 years Accountancy experience across the Service, Construction and the FMCG sectors. When Sam is not managing project finances and balancing budgets you will find her competing in Calisthenics, gardening or shopping with her daughter.
Laura Spelbrink
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Innovation Labs Program Manager
Laura Spelbrink's Bio
Laura is a Geoscientist and Project Management professional passionate about asking the right questions, collaborating and delivering successful projects. Trained as a geologist, Laura spent close to a decade in the resources industry managing cross-functional projects and identifying business development opportunities. Laura brings her wealth of industry experience to delivering innovation projects across a range of industries for FrontierSI. Laura is driven by the desire to see collaborative innovation deliver meaningful benefits to industry, government and society as a whole. Outside of work, you’ll find her exploring Melbourne’s parklands, collecting rocks and promoting STEM pathways to the next generation.
Dan Woodrow
Organisation
FrontierSI
Dan Woodrow's Bio
Dan has a research-based background and over 20 years of leading professional services teams in commercial spatial software vendor and independent consulting environments.
Dan has led many complex spatial and related software implementations in both supplier and buyer capacities. He has a depth of technical expertise in software technology, systems and lifecycles and business and system requirements analysis.
Dan has a background in spatial and related systems for water utilities and environmental management. He has worked on behalf of the UK water utilities and environmental regulatory bodies as well as many international organisations in the water industry and has advised on a number of international projects on behalf of the European Commission, including spatial data metadata standards development and several regional-scale water quality management initiatives.
Wendy Jackson
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Office Administrator
Wendy Jackson's Bio
Wendy is our admin manager extraordinaire. Having worked in CSIRO labs as a technical assistant for over 11 years, Wendy really understands how research works. Having also held positions in private industry and local government, she brings a deeper understanding to the day-to-day running of FrontierSI. Her love for the Collingwood Football Club and travelling the world, keeps her in good check for conversation around the office and with our partners. All around Wendy is a special type of admin glue for FrontierSI, she understands the ins and outs of research and bookkeeping, and how to work collaboratively across government, private industry and academia.
Jess Keysers
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Analyst and Project Manager
Jess Keysers's Bio
Jess, sometimes known as “Jessenius”, is an all-round geospatial genius. She is super organised and thrives on getting high quality, useful things done – especially if those things have a positive impact for society and the environment. With a Bachelor of Engineering (Geomatics, Hons) and a Bachelor of Geography from Melbourne University, Jess enjoys researching and analysing complex spatial data and unstructured aspatial information. She then clearly communicates outcomes in technical documents so they make sense for our clients and partners. Her obsession outside of FrontierSI is running – road running, trail running, travel running, fun runs, you name it. Run for life!
Eldar Rubinov
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Positioning and Geodesy Technical Lead
Eldar Rubinov's Bio
Eldar is a self-proclaimed GPS geek who much prefers being outside with a GPS receiver than sitting behind a desk in the office. After graduating, Eldar worked as a hydrographic surveyor for a number of years before returning to academia and completing a PhD in high-precision GNSS at the University of Melbourne. After another stint in the industry Eldar has joined FrontierSI to serve as a Technical Manager during the 2017-2019 SBAS test-bed and is currently working as the Positioning & Geodesy Technical Lead at FrontierSI. Outside of work Eldar loves travelling and exploring different places the world has to offer, always with a GPS in hand.
Lachlan Hurst
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Full Stack Developer
Lachlan Hurst's Bio
Lachlan brings ideas to life. Hand him a set of functional requirements, client brief or scribbles on the back of a coaster and it’ll be translated into working software in no time. He holds bachelor’s in computer science and mechanical engineering, tuning his desire to make cool stuff into robust ability. When not coding Lachlan is cycling, he attributes a small part of his interest in geospatial data to the hours spent scouring maps for perfect back roads. Another part is the insights visualisations bring to fundamental and obscure questions. But, the biggest draw card, social good, Lachlan loves to work with geospatial data to help humanity.
TO Chan
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Project Manager
Chris Marshall
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Positioning Engineer and Project Manager
Chris Marshall's Bio
When he’s not riding his motorcycle, rocking out on his guitar, or diving into old-school PC games, you’ll likely find Chris catching up with the latest in the Billionaire Space Race. Whether discussing distant planets or our own, Chris enjoys looking at the bigger picture and applying his keen eye for language to bring everyone into the conversation. After the recent completion of his Master of Engineering (Spatial), where he explored the benefits of SBAS to aviation, Chris has joined the FrontierSI team to put these skills to work. He will also apply his deep knowledge of surveying, geodesy and GIS to assist in closing out the final stages of the project.
Caitlin Adams
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Senior Data Scientist
Caitlin Adams's Bio
Caitlin is a deeply creative thinker with a passion for solving the complex problems humanity faces. Her deep desire to understand the world around her led her to study physics during her Bachelor of Science (Hons) at the University of Queensland. She then kicked it up a notch by trying to understand the universe as a whole during her PhD at Swinburne University of Technology. Depending on the weather, you can find her sketching and painting Melbourne’s delightful and varied architecture, or curled up inside with a great book. As one of our data scientists, she looks for interesting ways to extract insights from the wealth of satellite data available, as well as new ways to support the community to do the same.
Fernando Matsunaga
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Product and Project Manager - Value Australia
Fernando Matsunaga's Bio
Fernando is a scientist who also became a product designer. He loves to learn about emerging technologies and different business domains. From developing software for genome analysis to implementing cyber systems, his focus over the last two decades has been to create relevant solutions to interesting problems. As our Product Manager, Fernando fits well among our research and business partners, building a shared understanding of scientific knowledge, technical capabilities and business needs. If you ask him “Can you hear the drums?”, he will probably smile politely. It is not the first time he has heard this ABBA reference.
Ken Harima
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Researcher & Software Developer | Positioning & Location
Ken Harima's Bio
Ken is very enthusiastic researcher of space-based technologies and their application on Earth. He has a background in Electronic Engineering and completed his PhD in the University of Tokyo. At this time he was based at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA. There he spent his days developing GNSS receiver technologies suited for highly dynamic and challenging environments, such as rockets and satellites. Ken arrived in Australia to explore the potential of QZSS and other GNSS in everyday life. His research interests are GNSS augmentation and Precise Point Positioning.
Rowan Winsemius
Organisation
FrontierSI
Rowan Winsemius's Bio
Rowan is a spatial software engineer who has worked in the spatial sector for 15 years with state and federal governments, as well as in the private sector. Rowan has a wide range of experience with both proprietary and open source spatial software including contributing to a range of open source projects. Rowan loves understanding pain points that people are facing in working with spatial data and helping them put the right solution in place. When not wrangling vertices or crunching pixels, you’ll most likely find him chasing his kids or cursing the possum who’s getting into his veggie patch.
Nic Prassopoulos
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Communications Manager
Nic Prassopoulos's Bio
Nic is a highly credentialled marketing communications professional with extensive experience across various industries in the development, management and implementation of brand, marketing and communications strategies. Nic is based with the Melbourne team and responsible for the development and implementation of the FrontierSI marketing, communications and digital strategies, leading external FrontierSI content marketing and communications, and ensuring the marketing and communications outcomes meet the strategic and operational objectives of the FrontierSI strategy and business plan. A passionate Manchester United FC member, in his spare time Nic watches countless hours of international football whilst being actively involved in sports administration as part of the broader National Premier League competition. He is also a FFA-registered player intermediary.
Ronald Maj
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Research Associate
Ronald Maj's Bio
Ron is passionate about all things space and how we can use technologies such as GPS (or GNSS in general) to help us here on Earth. He completed a PhD in Space Physics at the University of Sydney investigating the use of antennas on small cube satellite (CubeSats) as diagnostic tools for the boundary between Earth and space. Thereafter he was a researcher in models of Earth’s atmosphere at RMIT University and dabbled in data science as a fellow at Insight Data Science in Canada. His research at FrontierSI will dive deeper into the GPS signals we rely on everyday and look to improve the accuracy of positioning systems even further. Outside of FrontierSI, Ron enjoys running, bike-riding and discovering random facts on Wikipedia to increase his trivia prowess.
Serena Sun
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Accountant
Serena Sun's Bio
Serena is registered CPA and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Melbourne. Serena has close to 10 years experience in financial accounting, dealing with month-end accounting, financial reporting and auditing and statutory accounts. Outside of work, the majority of Serena’s time is dedicated to her daughter who she likes to travel around with, exploring the world. Serena also enjoys Zumba keeping her happy and fit.
Alex Linossier
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Space Industry Engagement and Program Manager
Alex Linossier's Bio
Alex has a Bachelors degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Arts, a Masters of Space Engineering, and still dreams of being the world’s tallest astronaut. Alex has worked in a wide range of industries from oil and gas drilling operations heading down into the Earth, ballistics and propulsion research screeching sideways, and space launch and satellite missions racing skywards. His experience covers all spatial dimensions. Alex brings his upstream space mission design and operations, program management, and business strategy experience to FrontierSI to seek out new adventures for the organisation in space. Outside of the office, Alex loves finding his own new adventures, whether that’s rock climbing, sailing, heading to cheap gigs, cooking or checking out the latest places to eat.
Jia-Urnn Lee
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Space Technical Lead
Jia-Urnn Lee's Bio
Jia-Urnn has a deep interest in how the physical world around us works. She studied the complexities of Himalayan tectonics for her PhD. Her professional experience ranges from using Earth observation data for resource exploration, to strategic business development to put innovative research on Australian and international space roadmaps. Jia-Urnn brings her diverse background to FrontierSI to tackle audacious upstream and downstream space projects all the way from concept to mission success. She clears her mental space by riding, with the aim of exploring all the roads and trails the Canberra region has to offer by bike.
Rupert Brown
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Positioning Australia Product Development Manager
Rupert Brown's Bio
Rupert has worked as a software developer, business analyst, Project Director and Product Manager. His domain knowledge covers requirements analysis and elicitation, design, complex real-time software systems, safety critical systems, web based applications and 3D modelling in the aerospace, intelligent transport and defence industries. He is currently working on the product definition for global navigation satellite system derived precise point positioning software and analysis products.
Ivana Ivanova
Organisation
Curtin University
External Roles
Research Fellow Spatial Information Infrastructures
Matt Duckham
Organisation
RMIT University
External Roles
Associate Dean, Geospatial Science, RMIT University
Matthew Wilson
Organisation
University of Canterbury
External Roles
Professor of Spatial Information
Chris Pettit
Organisation
University of New South Wales
External Roles
Director, Smart Cities
Kat Salm
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Business Development Manager – New Zealand
Kat Salm's Bio
If you’re looking for someone with a passion for spatial futures and who loves to connect people and ideas — or a flightless bird — go no further than the kiwi in the bunch. Kat is our NZ Business Development Manager and has a broad view of the spatial industry across government, academia, and industry. She loves to find opportunity and potential, make complex things simple and turn ideas into reality. Strategic, creative, and pragmatic thinking is her forte, and she often finds ideas are best progressed over a coffee or a wine. Kat has a PhD in Zoology, a pug called Batman, a penchant for holidays anywhere tropical, and a fondness for coffee and wine (did we mention that already?).
Jasmine Muir
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Earth Observation Technical Lead
Jasmine Muir's Bio
Jasmine is highly experienced in Earth observation (EO), having worked across the industry for close to 20-years in agriculture, mining, forestry, and environmental monitoring. She has a PhD in laser scanning, has worked extensively with LIDAR, aerial imagery, multispectral and radar satellite imagery using python programming, and has managed numerous EO projects across government, research, and private industry. Jasmine is passionate about unlocking the insights in EO data to help drive business and facilitating the uptake of EO for solving problems. Located in Perth, she enjoys the chance to get outdoors in her spare time, with her motor bike, bicycle or set of golf clubs.
Brendon McAtee
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Industry Engagement Manager
Brendon McAtee's Bio
Brendon McAtee has a PhD in Applied Remote Sensing and over the last 20 years has worked widely on the development of satellite imagery applications for agriculture, emergency and natural resource management, carbon accounting, and the urban environment, within government, industry, and the startup sector.
He is passionate and skilled in facilitating innovation and collaboration and works to define and extract the value in new ideas for stakeholders. Brendon has worked extensively in the innovation ecosystem leading and managing innovation programs in organisations and facilitating industry research engagement.
Brendon brings this experience together in his role as Industry Engagement Manager with FrontierSI with the objective of building the capability of industry to create greater value out of space and spatial technology.
Outside of work you’ll find him coaching kids’ footy, sadly but proudly supporting the Fremantle Dockers and advocating for action on climate and sustainability.
Bogdan Matviichuk
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Research Associate
Roshni Sharma
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Project Manager and Analyst
Roshni Sharma's Bio
Having traversed environmental science and management, human geography, palaeoclimatology and business, and onto her third masters degree, Roshni is a thought leader, a compassionate disruptor, a connector and someone who gets things done. She is making it her life’s work to harness location intelligence to create tangible positive change for society, creating real traction around sustainability and leveraging tech for good. Roshni loves dogs (but not cats), experimental cooking, and reads copiously at every opportunity. At FrontierSI, Roshni is at the forefront of the industry, bringing together cutting-edge innovation into useful applications for academia, industry and government.
Jacob Shearer
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
GNSS Engineer
Jacob Shearer's Bio
Jacob started his tertiary education with a combined Bachelor of Electronic Engineering and Physics and then added a maths degree because he “wanted an excuse to do more math”. This broad range of interests, coupled with a desire to solve the problems faced by those around him, has taken him everywhere from quantum control theory and biometrics to software safety and systems engineering. What he’s enjoyed about engineering is the ability to tackle engaging and challenging technical problems, solve them, and package them up into tools that empower others to do amazing and impactful things. Outside of work he will always make time to read and is currently enjoying losing a lot of games of Go.
Lachlan Ng
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Positioning Engineer
Lachlan Ng's Bio
Lachlan became fascinated by the world of GNSS positioning when he assisted with equipment testing at FrontierSI during the SBAS Test-bed project. He then completed a Master of Engineering (Spatial) where he explored the positioning performance of a smartphone with a dual frequency GNSS chipset. Following his studies, he worked as a data engineer supporting the design and development of bespoke spatial data pipelines. Lachlan is a strong advocate for open source projects and he aims to develop positioning solutions that benefit the community and contribute to environmental sustainability.
Lavender (Qingxiang) Liu
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Earth Observation Data Scientist
Lavender (Qingxiang) Liu's Bio
Lavender holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, and a PhD in Remote Sensing. She has work experience in both industry and academia. Her project experience includes aerial and satellite remote sensing data analysis for environmental applications, including vegetation, wetlands, land cover and coastal change monitoring. She likes hiking, food, music and badminton.
Luis Elneser
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Senior Positioning Engineer
Luis Elneser's Bio
Luis loves finding those hidden solutions that emerge between disciplines and sectors. He has a background in Geodesy, Geospatial Science and working across industries in offshore and civil construction, support and sales, product development and management. His creative side is passionate about increasing technology adoption to solve real-world problems. His structured side is obsessed with user requirements, systems engineering and telecommunication standards. If you get an out-of-office email, he is likely travelling, hiking, or learning a new skill.
Claire Fisk
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Project Manager and Data Scientist
Claire Fisk's Bio
From a young age Claire had a passion for the Environment which led her to complete a Bachelor of Environment Science at the University of South Australia. Through this degree she discovered an interest in GIS and Earth Observation. She went on to complete a PhD in Remote Sensing from the University of Adelaide and has specialist knowledge in the calibration and validation of Earth Observation data. She has experience in academia as a research assistant and demonstrator before mostly recently working in environmental consulting. Claire hopes to help develop, promote and teach the wider community about the potential of Earth Observation data and technologies in Australia and Internationally. When Claire isn’t working, she is spending time with family and friends, reading or exploring Western Australia.
Madeleine Seehaber
Organisation
FrontierSI
Roles
Graduate Data Scientist
Madeleine Seehaber's Bio
Madeleine joined FrontierSI after completing her Bachelor of Science (Geospatial) at RMIT University. Madeleine is passionate about making her contribution within the spatial sector and looking forward to exposure to new projects as she begins her career within the industry. Madeleine brings her willingness to try new things and love of learning. Outside of work, you will find her out hiking with friends, attending her local Pilates studio and enjoying her fair share of gigs on the weekend.