Plant Research Centre, Waite Campus

Executive Office and Support

Hazel Cochrane
General Manager
08 8429 0259 or 0417 532 387

Rhiannan Walker
Executive Assistant to Executive Director, SARDI
08 8429 3513

Pauline Bowden
Executive Assistant to Research Director, Crop Sciences 
08 8429 0924

Alice Harvie
Office Manager, Research Support
08 8429 7443

Nick Smart
Plant Research Centre Manager, Research Support
0418 849 083

Gus Vithayathil
Greenhouse Services Officer, Research Support
0436 528 458

Staff

Peter Crisp
Program Leader, Entomology 
08 8429 0401

Janine Croser
Program Leader, Crop and Pasture Improvement
08 8429 0375 or 0448 990 281

Liz Farquharson
Subprogram Leader, Soil Biology
08 8429 2243

Danièle Giblot-Ducray
Subprogram Leader, Molecular Diagnostics
08 8429 2229

Peter Hayman
Subprogram Leader, Climate Applications
08 8429 0426

Maarten van Helden
Subprogram Leader, Agro-ecology/IPM
08 8429 0642

Alan Humphries
Subprogram Leader, Pasture Improvement
08 8429 0376

Jessica Jolley
Subprogram Leader, Meat Safety & Market Access
08 8429 2362

Rohan Kimber
Subprogram Leader, Disease Surveillance
08 8429 2219

Katharina Merkel
Subprogram Leader, Fruit Fly 
08 8429 3804

Kate Muirheard
Subprogram Leader, Grains Entomology
08 8429 2741

Stuart Nagel
Subprogram Leader, Vetch
08 8429 0725

Stephen Pahl
Subprogram Leader, Seafood & Market Access
08 8429 2298

Paul Petrie
Program Leader, Irrigated Crops
08 8429 3692

Tim Pitt
Subprogram Leader, Horticulture Pathology
08 8429 2299

Victor Sadras
Subprogram Leader, Crop Ecophysiology
08 8429 0258

Rhiannon Schilling
Program Leader, Agronomy
08 8429 2926

Mark Sosnowski
Subprogram Leader, Horticulture Pathology
08 8429 2281

Nicole Thompson
Program Leader, Plant Health and Diagnostics
08 8429 0915 or 0459 732 010

Valeria Torok
Subprogram Leader, Food Microbiology
08 8429 0912

Nigel Wilhelm
Low Rainfall Farming Senior Research Scientist
08 8429 0846