PROFESSOR ALAN DUFFY

Professor Alan Duffy is the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Flagship Initiatives at Swinburne University of Technology, Alan brings together researchers, industry and government to undertake transformative programmes in Flagship sectors of hydrogen, renewable technologies, AI, space and aerospace, MedTech and health innovation.

Alan was the inaugural Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne, finding ways to use space and AI to help companies and communities on Earth.

His research background in computational astrophysics saw Alan model universes on supercomputers to
understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form within vast clouds of dark matter. Alan is also the co-founder and CEO of mDetect, a spin-off company from his dark matter research that uses particles from space to scan and identify structural weaknesses in tailings dams, as well as national education programs that allow students to access the highest energy particles in the universe with hands-on experiments entirely safely.