Allison Kealy

Professor Allison Kealy is the Director of the Innovative Planet Research Institute at Swinburne University and Acting Director of the French/Australia Centre for Energy Transition. Prior to this Allison was the Executive Director Surveying and Spatial within the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning. She has also held academic positions in Geodesy and Satellite Positioning at RMIT and Melbourne Universities and was Acting Chief Research Officer in the SmartSAT CRC and Deputy Director of RMIT’s Defence Research Centre. Allison is a Board Member of Quantum Australia, and a Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), and the Royal Institute of Navigation. She is also a Chief Investigator at the 7-year Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS), and leads the Microcombs for Sensing and Measurement research theme.