Academic staff

At Monash University, Indonesia, we believe that our academic staff plays a crucial role in shaping the educational experience and success of our students. Their expertise, dedication, and commitment to excellence contribute to a vibrant and intellectually stimulating environment that prepares students to thrive in their chosen fields.


Our faculty members possess extensive academic knowledge and real-world experience, ensuring that students receive a well-rounded education that combines theory and practical application. They actively engage in research and scholarly activities, contributing to the advancement of knowledge in their disciplines.


The Monash University, Indonesia team comprises a diverse range of professional and academic staff, and we pride ourselves on making a strong contribution to Indonesia’s further success.

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Pro Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University, Indonesia

Professor Nicholson will work closely with the key university and external stakeholders to develop the Monash University, Indonesia campus’ growing reputation as a leading postgraduate education provider in the Southeast Asia region. With his extensive experience and expertise, Professor Nicholson aims to solidify the university's position as a leader in the field.

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Getting to know the academic team





Michael Mintrom
Professor and Program Director
Public policy; Policy design; Evidence-based policy; The Politics of policy making; and Educational Administration.

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Sabina Puspita
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
Democratisation; Gender politics; Sustainable communities; Historical comparative methods; and Southeast and Northeast Asia.

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Ika Idris
Associate Professor
Social media analytics; Government communication; Disinformation; Misinformation; and Fake news; Women and Leadership; Public Information and communication; and Public policy implementation in Indonesia.

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Quinton Temby
Assistant Professor
Southeast Asian Politics; Technology Policy; Terrorism and violent extremism; and National security policy.

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Luthfi Adam
Research Fellow
Global Environmental History; Global History of Science and Technology; Modern Indonesian History; Modern Southeast Asian History; Global Political and Economic History; and Global History of Imperialism and Colonialism.

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Edward Buckingham
Professor and Program Director
Strategy and leadership; Entrepreneurship; International business; and Change management.

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Harriman Saragih
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
Theory and Practice of Innovative Marketing; Entrepreneurial Innovation; Design Thinking; Consumer Marketing; Business Innovation; and Music Business.

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Yessy Perangin Angin
Vice-President of Education and Associate Professor
Accounting for Decision Making; Financial and Operations Management.

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Ivan Butar
Associate Professor
AI in organization; AI for good leadership; AI-focused startup/venture; Startup/venture funding

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Sarah Gultom
Assistant Professor
Regulation; prices and markets; Poverty; inequality and opportunity; Technology: Risk and regulation in the digital age; Sustainable development; and Development economics.

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Paul Kalfadellis
Associate Professor and Program Director
Foreign Direct Investment; Headquarter-Subsidiary Relationship; European Business and Society; The Business Environment.

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Joseph Natanael Marshan
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
Applied Microeconomics; International Business; Trade Policy and Development; Gender and Labour.

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Jackie Rong
Senior Lecturer and Program Director
Machine learning; Deep learning and image processing and their applications in digital health; Medical image analysis; Cancer diagnosis; Cardiac disease detection; Pavement condition and maintenance; and Tourism management.

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Derry Wijaya
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator
Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Large Language Models (LLMs); Machine Translation; Computational; Framing Analysis; Bias and Fairness in AI; and AI for Social Good.

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Taufiq Asyhari
Professor
Information theory; Signal processing; Smart sensing; and Machine learning for next generation cyber-physical systems.

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Arif Perdana
Associate Professor
Digital Strategy and Sustainability; Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Decision Making; Blockchain in Business; and Management Information Systems.

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Risqi Saputra
Associate Professor
Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Computer Vision; AI/ML/CV Applications (Emergency Response; Sustainability; Smart Cities; Recommendation; etc.); Navigation; Positioning and Mapping; and Cyber-physical Systems.

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Vanya Valindria
Assistant Professor
Machine Learning for Medical Image Analysis; Medical AI & Digital Health; Deep Learning & Computer Vision; LLMs; Gen AI in Multimedia (audio; image; video).

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Novi Quadrianto
Adjunct Professor
Ethical and trustworthy machine learning; Safe and robust machine learning; and interactive machine learning.

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Alham Fikri Aji
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Knowledge Distillation; Parameter Efficient Finetuning; Corpus building; Mixture of Experts; Synthetic data; and Zero-shot crosslingual generalization.

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Erza Aminanto
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
Information security; Artificial intelligence; Anomaly detection; Intrusion detection; Cybersecurity; Digital transformation; and Smart city.

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Bayu Anggorojati
Assistant Professor
Computer Networks; Network Security; Information Security and Risk Management; Blockchain; Human aspect in cybersecurity; and Security in machine learning.

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Muhammad Johan Alibasa
Assistant Professor
Human-Computer Interaction; Secure Software Engineering; AI-powered Code Analysis; and Applications of AI.

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Rizka Purwanto
Assistant Professor
AI for space; Phishing detection; and Social engineering.

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Diego Ramirez
Professor and Course Director
Architecture and urbanismm; Urban environments and Climate change; Resource limitations and rapid population growth with a key focus on the Global South.

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Alyas Widita
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
Built environment; Urban mobility; Emerging technologies; Data science and analytics application for cities.

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Jane M. Jacobs
Vice-President of Research & Academic Affairs and Professor
Introduction to Urban Studies; Architecture and Society; Creative Cities; Urban Heritage; Independent Research In Urban Studies; Colonial and postcolonial geographies.

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Stephen Cairns
Professor
Architecture; Urban design; and Urban planning.

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Daliana Suryawinata
Associate Professor in Practice
Urban acupuncture; Socio-climatic design strategies; Kampung urbanism and informal settlements

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Neville Mars
Associate Professor in Practice
Flash urbanisation, Urban fields; Geospatial analysis; Rural-urban linkages; Piecemeal and organic development

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Eka Permanasari
Adjunct Associate Professor
Urban Development; Community Action Plan; Community Based Development; Private cities & Urban Sprawl; and Postcolonial cities & representation.

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Denis Can Teoman
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Sustainability; Urban Planning/Design and Health; Urban Theory; Urban Transportation Planning.

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Kadek Wara Urwasi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Urban Sociology; Urban Politics; Inequality and Informality; Cultural Sociology; Global and Transnational Sociology.

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Dragan Ilic
Professor and Course Director
Public health; Health professions education include evaluation; assessment; psychometrics; cost and value research.

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Gabriela Fernando
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
Global health (Non-Communicable Diseases); Social determinants of health; Health financing and Equity; Women’s health; Gender and Financial inclusion; Microfinance programs; Gender equality; Qualitative research methods.

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Henry Surendra
Associate Professor 
Infectious Diseases Epidemiology (Malaria, COVID-19, and NTDs); Public Health Surveillance; Spatial Epidemiology; and Serological Surveillance.

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Claudia Stoicescu
Associate Professor
Global health; Social epidemiology; Substance use; Community based participatory research methods; Gender-based violence; Respondent driven sampling; HIV and AIDS; and Syndemics.

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Grace Wangge
Associate Professor
Public Health; Clinical Epidemiology; Drug Development Methodology; Pharmacoepidemiology; Community Medicine; Community Nutrition; Science Communication; Digital health governance; Pharmacovigilance; Health science communication.

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Dewi Nur Aisyah
Adjunct Associate Professor
Public Health Fundamentals; Public Health Digital Innovations; Infectious Disease Epidemiology; Digital Health; Digital Innovation; One Health; Primary Healthcare Strengthening; and Public Health Surveillance.

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Atina Husnayain
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Digital epidemiology; Information technology-based surveillance; Spatial epidemiology; Regression machine learning.

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Mugdha Rai
Senior Lecturer and Program Director
Strategic communications; Advocacy; Communications for change; Political communication.

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Arran Ridley
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
Data visualization; Critical data studies; Design studies; and Digital methods.

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Dyah Pitaloka
Associate Professor and Graduate Research Director
Social; cultural; and policy dynamics of digital technology; Strategic communications; Socio-technical impact of ICT; Digital technology & wellbeing; Disability; communications; and media; Social change & justice.

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Triana Hadiprawoto
Assistant Professor
Theory and Practice of Innovative Marketing; Entrepreneurial Innovation.

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Annette Bos
Associate Professor and Program Director
Sustainable development; Sustainability transitions; Social learning; Governance; Education; Human and Environmental Health.

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Alex Lechner
Adjunct Professor
Sustainable planning and decision-making; Spatial approaches; Ecosystem services modelling; Wildlife connectivity analyses; Remote sensing; and Participatory web-based GIS mapping.

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Aichiro Suryo Prabowo
Assistant Professor
Public Budgeting and Finance; Tax Policy; Sustainable Finance; and Disaster Finance.

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Aulia Dwi Nastiti
Research Fellow
Political Economy of Digital Platforms; Digital Labor and Algorithmic Control; Politics and Governance of Digital Technology.

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Sari Damar Ratri
Research Fellow
Health Inequalities; Health Metrics; Gender and Sexualities; Anthropology of Development; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Medical Anthropology.

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Perdana Roswaldy
Assistant Professor
Political Ecology; Just Transition; Development and Agrarian Studies; Environmental Policy; Post-conflict Socio-ecology; Nature- and Community-based Solutions for Sustainability.

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