Dr Murray Cameron: fostering multidisciplinary research partnerships

Dr Murray Cameron is a research scientist who believes that good decisions depend on good analysis of reliable quantitative information. He fosters research partnerships with the aim of having an impact on industries that increasingly rely on this information.

Mr Mark Horn: creating decision support systems

Mr Mark Horn works with a group of mathematicians on material design, rostering and decision making under uncertainty.

Monitoring team receives CSIRO’s top award in 2004

A team of mathematicians and environment scientists have won CSIRO's top award for a suite of environmental mapping tools that help fight salinity.
Meet the team creating maps that help address key environmental issues.

Investigating the potential interaction between monsoon systems in Australia and China

CSIRO researchers are working with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science to analyse the relationship between southern Australia’s winter rainy season and East Asia’s summer monsoon season.

Dr Melissa Dobbie: monitoring landscape-scale ecosystems

Dr Melissa Dobbie develops and applies statistical methods to solve challenging environmental problems, with an emphasis on water quality monitoring.

Careers in mathematics and statistics

CSIRO employs over 150 mathematical and information science staff to deliver solutions to business and industry.

Maths + mining = innovation

CSIRO mathematician Dr Frank de Hoog explores the importance of collaboration between the industry and mathematicians in the September 2009 issue of Australian Mining Magazine.

Matchpoint software solution supporting hairpinRNAi

MatchPoint is a software module developed by CSIRO to support CSIRO’s gene silencing technology.

Quantifying risk for margin lenders

CSIRO researchers developed a model and prototype software to quantify risk for a large portfolio of Australian stocks in margin lending.

Ms Maree O’Sullivan: implementing new statistical methods to analyse and understand microarray data

Ms Maree O’Sullivan is a biometrician who specialises in statistical bioinformatics for agricultural applications

Improving manufacturing systems

CSIRO develops manufacturing and business systems offering a high degree of robustness, stability and performance.

Dr Mahesh Prakash: a dynamic approach to fluids

Dr Mahesh Prakash is playing an important role in developing super-realistic animations using maths, like making sure computer-generated waves in movies look natural.

Dr Luke Domanski: using graphics processing units to speed up scientific computing

Dr Luke Domanski is a Postdoctoral Fellow working in the area of computational and simulation sciences at CSIRO.

Dr Leorey Marquez: protecting Australia's critical infrastructure

With qualifications in statistics, operations research and information sciences Dr Leorey Marquez's research involves modelling the medical and social impacts of critical infrastructure disruption.

Assessing landscape systems and trends for agricultural sustainability

The Sustainable Agriculture Flagship is developing innovative assessment techniques to measure, monitor and predict the condition of Australian agricultural and forestry landscapes to increase productivity and reduce carbon emissions.

Dr Keith Hayes: undertaking risk assessment for complex ecological problems

Dr Hayes is a senior research scientist responsible for developing and applying novel risk assessment techniques to complex ecological problems.

Landscape monitoring and modelling

The research of the Landscape Monitoring and Modelling group is helping natural resource managers to make important water management decisions.

Land Monitor: mapping soil salinity for better land management

CSIRO scientists have developed a technique using satellite maps to estimate the present and future extent of salinity in south Western Australia.

Dr John A Taylor: developing new ways to deal with large and complex data

Dr John A Taylor's research focus is to develop new ways of dealing with the ever expanding amount of data generated by scientific research.

Dr Jeffrey Dambacher: understanding where ecology meets socioeconomics

Dr Jeffrey Dambacher uses his expertise in monitoring and modelling of complex systems to better understand the interactions and interdependences of ecological and socioeconomic systems.

Planning Infrastructure for a better future

CSIRO develops software tools and technologies to support decision making and improve the way national and state infrastructure is maintained and planned into the future.

Increasing production rates

Mathematical modelling was one of several approaches which helped James Hardie to increase production rates for their reinforced cement building products.

Improving mobile telephone reception

CSIRO in conjunction with Telstra Research Laboratories has developed software to tune cellular mobile telephone networks using an advanced optimising technique to assign the best frequencies to base stations.

Image deconvolution using CSIRO's GPU computer cluster

CSIRO's GPU computer cluster is speeding up deconvolution, the unblurring of fuzzy images.

Automated image technologies enhance drug discovery

CSIRO’s automated image analysis technology can rapidly and accurately measure tiny changes in cells, to find safer drugs more quickly.   CSIRO is helping pharmaceutical companies with one of their most expensive, time-consuming tasks - identifying which chemical compounds to develop into new drugs.