Our people
Hub Postdoctoral Researchers
A/Prof Fabian Kong
EMCR Committee Chair
Associate Professor
The University of Melbourne
+61 3 9035 3039
Dr Emily Bryan
EMCR Committee Secretariat
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Queensland, Centre for Clinical Research
Ms Francesca Azzato
Section Head – Bacteriology Department
Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference laboratory (VIDRL) at the Doherty Institute
PhD Student
The University of Melbourne
+61 3 9342 9341
Dr Rohan Bopage
Infectious Diseases and Sexual Health Physician, Staff Specialist in Sexual Health
Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, WSLHD, NSW Health
+61 2 9843 3124
Dr Shiva Chandra
EMCR Committee Member
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
+61 2 9351 9684
Prof Eric Chow
Professor and Unit Head
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Monash University
+61 3 9341 6233
Dr Louise Chow
EMCR Committee Member
Senior Research Officer
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
+61 2 9065 9511
Teck Phui Chua
EMCR Committee Member
PhD Student
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne | Centre for Women’s Infectious Diseases, Royal Women’s Hospital
Ella Herring
Research Assistant
University of Queensland, Centre for Clinical Research
Dr Kay Htaik
EMCR Committee Member
PhD Student
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
+61 433 756 156
Dr Jose L Huaman Torres
EMCR Committee Member
Postdoctoral Scientist
University of Melbourne | Centre for Women’s Infectious Diseases, Royal Women’s Hospital
+61 3 8345 3675
Dr Laila Khawar
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
+61 2985 9201
Dr Wenyi Li
EMCR Committee Member
Senior Lecturer
La Trobe University, Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry
+61 3 9479 6336
A/Prof Dr Jason Ong
Sexual Health Physician, Head, HIV/STI economics and Health Preference Research
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
+61 3 9341 6200
Dr Michelle Peterie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University of Sydney
Dr Erica Plummer
EMCR Committee Member
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Bioinformatician
Central Clinical School,
Monash University
+61 3 9341 6258
Dr Georgina Pollock
Research Fellow
The University of Melbourne
+61 3 8344 4053
Dr Emma Sweeney
EMCR Committee Member
Postdoctoral Researcher
The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research
+61 4 3132 2806
Mr Andrey Verich
EMCR Committee Member
PhD Student
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Dr Lenka Vodstrcil
EMCR Committee Member
Senior Research Fellow
Monash University
+61 3 9341 6232
Dr Caroline Watts
Senior Lecturer, Health Economics and Health Systems Group
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney






