Our People

Meet the faces behind MC³!

Our team is comprised of innovators, gathered together cross-campus from Melbourne and Malaysia to ideate, develop and implement durable and cost-effective carbon-dioxide removal technologies to combat climate change.

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Executive Team

Jayden Cooke
Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

Biochar Project Team

Samuel Ze Sang
Biochar Engineer

Natalie Barnes
Biochar Co-Manager

Nguyen (Kevin) Le
Biochar Co-Manager

Morris Dumaresq
Biochar Engineer

Shukira Oruzgani
Biochar Engineer

Nicholas Socic
Biochar Engineer

Kishore Murali
Biochar Engineer

Jaison Sam Joys
Biochar Engineer

ChemECCO Project Team

Jack Pookey
ChemECCO Engineer

Charlotte Collins
ChemECCO Manager

Yash Dave
ChemECCO Engineer

Henk Smit
ChemECCO Engineer

Zachary Busch
ChemECCO Engineer

Inshaal Khan
ChemECCO Engineer

Adam Loh
ChemECCO Engineer

Will Exon
ChemECCO Engineer

Danial Alyahya
ChemECCO Engineer

Brayden Gibson
ChemECCO Engineer

Emilia Lee
ChemECCO Engineer

Suwanya Suriwakumara
ChemECCO Engineer

CLT Project Team

Zainab Kusdian
CLT Engineer

Nafis Faiaz
CLT Engineer

Zakkey Irshad
CLT Manager

Sook Jean Tham (SJ)
CLT Engineer

Janavi Chaudary
CLT Engineer

DAC Project Team

Jack Bray
DAC Manager

Rakshitha Rao
DAC Engineer

Jake Nguyen
DAC Engineer

Tao Tann
DAC Engineer

Will Wright
DAC Engineer

Lucca Mendes
DAC Engineer

Vannastra Touch
DAC Engineer

Dylan Baptist
DAC Engineer

Forestry Project Team

William Strachan
Forestry Manager

Rory Smith
Forestry Engineer

Amaya Samaranayake
Forestry Engineer

Kat Hayes-Chen
Forestry Engineer

Ryan Gee
Forestry Engineer

Charlotte Ryan
Forestry Engineer

Microalgae Project Team

Jayden D’Agostin
Microalgae Manager

Mahiun Mahin
Microalgae Engineer

Zara Rosenberg
Microalgae Engineer

Andrew Phan
Microalgae Engineer

Leon Chen
Microalgae Engineer

Tish Karunatilake
Microalgae Engineer

Charlie Edis
Microalgae Engineer

Phuyen Nguyen
Microalgae Engineer

Archana Seralathan
Microalgae Engineer

Sita Utami Dewi
Microalgae Engineer

Jane Hantanto
Microalgae Engineer

Zofi Rubenstein-Slesenger
Microalgae Engineer

Meshwa Patel
Microalgae Engineer

Operations Team

Elle Beltsios
Operations Manager

Casey Chung
Operations Officer

Annie Li
Operations Officer

James Raj Narayanan
Operations Officer

Daniel Giam
Operations Officer

Divjhot Singh Anand
Operations Officer

Melissa Han
Operations Officer

Christina Lye
Operations Officer

Asmaa Hameed
Operations Officer

Riya Chaure
Operations Officer

Marketing Team

Chloe Hsieh
Marketing Manager

Sandra Gao
Marketing Officer

Cecilia Ho
Marketing Officer

Shiven Singh
Marketing Officer

Jaskaran Dhillon
Marketing Officer

Venuki Padukka
Marketing Officer

Our Advisors

Prof. Paul Webley
Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering,
Director, Woodside Monash Energy Partnership

A/Prof. Akshat Tanksale
A/Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering,
Carbon Theme Lead, Woodside Monash Energy Partnership