People

Within LIC’s Research and Development Group our teams are tackling some of the big challenges and opportunities in agriculture.  

We are always interested in hearing from talented researchers who want to join our team. If you have skills in the fields of reproductive technology, quantitative genetics, statistics or machine learning and are looking for an opportunity to work witha great team, on the best data and see real value generated from your work, then LIC’s Strategy and Growth Group is the place for you. Please visit Working for LIC or contact one of our science leaders directly for information on current opportunities with LIC.

• Dr Richard Spelman
  General Manager Research and Development
• Dr Steve Harcourt
  Commercialisation and Industry Relations Manager
• Dr Bevin Harris
  Research Leader, Analytical and Learning Systems.
• Dr Dave Johnson
  Senior Scientist (QUANTITATIVE GENETICS)
• Mike Keehan
  Senior Bioinformaticist
• Dr Vladimir Obolonkin
  Senior Scientist
• Dr Anne Winkelman
  Senior Scientist (QUANTITATIVE GENETICS)
• Dr Zhenzhong Xu
  Senior Scientist
• Renae Ellison
  Biotech Programme Manager
• Dr Kathryn Hempstalk
  Scientist
• Dr Pat Shannon
  Consultant
• Dr Danhui Yang
  Scientist (REPRODUCTION)
• Dr Boyd Gudex
  Research Associate
• Cameron Marshall
  Analytics Programme Manager
• Dr Gabi Schmidberger
  Scientist
• Roxy Popovici
  Intellectual Porperty Manager
• Gill Brennan
  Support Services Manager
• Thomas Lopdell
  Research Statistician
• Melanie Hayr
  Doctorate Student
• Kathryn Sanders
  Research Statistician
• Dr Lorna McNaughton
  Research Scientist – Dairy Cattle Fertility
• Dr Matt Littlejohn
  Research Scientist – Sequencing
• Ric Sherlock
  Bioinformatician
• Vivienne Bennett
  Library Manager
• Rachel Wood
  Animal Evaluation Manager
• Frances Creagh
  Research Assistant
• Dr Sarah Loker
  Research Scientist - Genomics
• Chad Harland
  Science Intern
• Frances Creagh
  Research Assistant

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