- 3-D modelling of cities and underground
- Acoustics
- Action of explosives
- Adaptive Beamforming
- Adaptive Optics
- Aerodynamics
- African and Islamic groups and politics
- Air-Traffic
- Analysis and design of blast-resistant buildings and facilities (steel, concrete, and masonry)
- Analytical chemistry
- Anti malware measures, detection and classification of malware, randomness testing
- Anti-Money Laundering
- Applications of Cryptology
- Applied cryptography
- Applied use of Security Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence and Law
- Authentication
- Authentication protocols
- Behaviour/Cultural Compliance to Security
- Biometrics and securing biometric templates
- Blast analysis
- Blast and Protective Engineering
- Blast engineering
- Blast hazard modeling using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software
- Blast loading
- Blast loading of metal and composite structures
- Blast protection of Vehicles and Structures
- Blast resistance of ultra-high performance concrete
- Blast safety and security procedural development
- Blast vulnerability assessment studies for critical infrastructure and high-risk establishments
- Business Continuity
- Business Continuity Management
- Business Continuity Planning
- Business Resilience
- Carbon tax and trading markets
- Chemical criminalistics
- Climate change impact on infrastructure
- Climate change, natural and man-made hazards and other time-dependent changes in hazards, safety and reliability of buil
- Communication/evacuation system - "RapidReach" automated notification system
- Complex Systems
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and Wind Engineering
- Computer and network security
- Computer forensics and cybercrimes
- Computer security
- Construction materials
- Corporate risk theory
- Counter Terrorism
- CRBN simulation
- Crime Data Mining
- Criminal Law
- Crisis Management
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Critical infrastructure protection policy
- Crowd Modelling
- Cryptographic Algorithms
- Cryptographic Protocols
- Cryptographic systems and their integration
- Cryptography
- Cryptography (Design and Cryptanalysis)
- Cryptography (Electronic Payment System, Anonymous Credential Systems)
- Cryptology
- Culture and Systems
- Culture and terrorism
- Cyber security
- Cybercrime
- Cyberterrorism
- Data mining
- Deception
- Decision Making
- Decision Support
- Defence industry innovation
- Defence industry, innovation and procurement policy
- Defence procurement
- Denial of service
- Design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms
- Development of Security Operating Procedures and Security Alert Procedures
- Development of Security Policies and Procedures Manuals
- Digital Forensics
- Digital Rights Management for protecting digital media, traitor tracing codes
- Digital Signature Schemes
- Disaster management - Advanced technologies
- Disaster management - Pacific Island community resilience to disasters
- Disaster Recovery
- Discrete Behaviour modelling for CRBN emergency response
- Distributed Systems Security
- Drug analysis and clandestine laboratory investigation
- Earthquake & Wind Engineering
- Earthquake Engineering
- Education
- Education and Counter terrorism
- Electronic Commerce Security
- Email Forensics
- Emergency & Crisis Management / Disaster Recovery Planning and Management
- Emergency and crisis management
- Emergency management
- Emergency Management - BCM
- Emergency Response
- Epidemic/pandemic planning and BCM implications
- Ethical issues of surveillance
- Ethics
- Evolutionary Computation
- Exercise design and management
- Exercise Management
- Experimental Blast testing
- Explosion and Fire including scene analysis, simulation of condensed and dispersed explosions
- Extreme Loading
- Fear of terrorism/fear of security
- Finite Element Analysis
- Finite element modeling of structural behaviour under severe impact and blast loads using LSDYNA, AUTODYN, ANSYS softwar
- Fire Engineering
- Forensic Computing
- Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning
- Geospatial information and applications in emergency management
- Governance, value, strategy management, risk and decision-making for human endeavours operating in complex adaptive environments
- High Speed Digital and Opto-electronics
- High Tech Crime
- History and Terrorism Studies
- Homeland Security and Intelligence areas
- Hospitals
- Human disaster management
- ICT
- Identity
- Image Processing
- Impact and risk analysis
- Impact loading of metal structures
- Impact loading of metal-fibre composites
- Incident/Crisis Management
- Influence Operations
- Information Assurance
- Information assurance, national information infrastructure policy development
- Information Operations
- Information Security
- Information Security and Intelligence
- Information security in industrial control systems environments
- Information Security Management
- Information Security Policy
- Infrastructure planning, projects, operations, investigations and coordination
- Intelligence
- Intelligence Analysis
- Inter-agency architectures for coordination and collaboration
- International Capacity Building
- International Law
- International Relations
- Internet and web policy
- Network security; network monitoring; intrusion detection
- Intrusion detection
- Judgement
- Knowledge Discovery
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Lab management
- Lecturer and Research Fellow
- Life cycle costing and decision analysis
- Location-based services
- Loss and Fraud Prevention
- Malicious Software
- Mass Transit Security
- Measuring National Security Outcomes
- Mitigation of blast and weapons effects on structures
- Mitigation of blast effects on structures
- Mobile Computing Security
- Mobile Phone Forensics
- Mobile phone technologies for public warning
- Mobile Phone, SIM card and Flash Memory Hacking
- Mobile Security
- Modelling and Simulation
- Multi-Agent Simulation Modelling
- Multi-Agent Systems
- National risk strategy
- National Security
- National Security Law
- Naval Combat Systems
- Network security
- New technology and the media
- Noise control
- Numerical modelling of Blast/Structure interaction
- Organisation and institutional development
- Pandemic influenza policy and history
- Pattern recognition
- Physical security
- Physical security design
- Political Risk
- Privacy
- Privacy-aware technologies
- Probabilistic risk assessment of structural systems and other built infrastructure
- Professor and Associate Dean (Research)
- Profiling
- Progressive collapse of buildings
- Protection of Critical Infrastructure
- Psychology of Terrorism
- Public key cryptography
- R&D Fundraising, Commercialization and Management
- Reader
- Reasoning
- Regulatory compliance
- Reinforced concrete structures
- Research facilities/laboratories
- Research Methodologies of Terrorism Studies
- Resilience
- Retrofitted structures against blast loads
- Risk
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Assessment of Complex Systems
- Risk Management
- Risk Management Support & Advice
- Risk Modelling
- Safety Security and Emergency Management Business Development
- SCADA security
- SCEC Consultancy / Type 1 Security Systems (High Security)
- Scenario-based planning
- Schools
- Secure wireless communications systems, signal design, spread spectrum systems
- Security
- Security (terror related) risk assessments
- Security and Risk
- Security applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Security by Design
- Security Consultancy
- Security in the banking and finance sector
- Security Intelligence
- Security Management - Business and Corporate Enterprise
- Security Management Systems
- Security Master Plans for Places of Mass Gathering
- Security risk analysis in relation to blast/bombings
- Security risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis of counter-terrorism measures
- Security risk assessments and threats assessments for critical infrastructure sites, places of mass gathering and supply chains
- Security Risk Management
- Security Risk Management / Business Continuity Planning
- Security Simulation and Modelling
- Security Standards
- Security System Design and Documentation (Networking and Integration, CCTV, Access Control, Intruder Alarm System, Duress System, Perimeter Detection System, Cell Call Systems)
- Simulation
- Simulation support to operations, analysis and training
- Small arms industry
- Smart Antennas
- Social causes and consequences of terrorism and security
- Social Networks
- Socio-technical systems management
- Soft Operations Research
- Space Situational Awareness
- Spatial/Locational Privacy
- Speech privacy
- Sport and Terrorism
- Strategic and Scenario Planning
- Strategic Property Protection Planning
- Strategic Security Risk Management
- Structural Condition Monitoring
- Structural Dynamics
- Structural response to blast loads
- Surface transport security risk management
- Surveillance and Monitoring technologies
- Surveillance Imaging
- Sustainability and ethics
- Symmetric cryptography
- System Security
- Systems engineering and integration
- Team development and training
- Technology acceptance theories and models
- Telecommunications
- Terrorism and influence operations
- Terrorism management
- Terrorist and criminal use of explosives
- Terrorist groups
- Terrorist profiling/radicalisation models
- Thin-walled steel structures
- Threat Analysis (Critical Infrastructure Protection)
- Threat Management
- Traffic and transport engineering
- Traffic Incident Management
- Training
- Training & Assessment System
- Transport and Traffic engineering
- Transport planning
- Transport Policy
- Transport security
- Transport systems modelling
- Trusted systems and networks
- Uberveillance
- Use of military assets for disaster relief
- Vibration
- Weapons effects on structures
- Web services: vulnerabilities and monitoring
- Wireless sensor network recovery
- Wireless sensor network security
- Workplace Training & Assessment
- Operational security, risk management & training
- Biometrics Technology and application
- Information Security Cybercrime
- Training and Education
- Development of Security Plans
- Critical Incident and Emergency Response Planning & Training
- National resource security
- Signal Processing
- UAV navigation by vision
- Concrete and Steel Technologies
- Protection of building glazed facades against blast effects using high-performance retrofit solutions
- Policing technologies
- Incident Response
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RNSA Information
RNSA leadership
Advisory Board Chair: Dr RichardDavis
Advisory Board Members: Mike Rothery, Tony Slay, Tony Pearce
Network Convenor: Prof Priyan Mendis, Head of the Advanced Protective Technology for Engineering Structures Group, The University of Melbourne
Management Committee: Prof Ed Dawson, Queensland University of Technology; Prof Joseph Lai, UNSW@ADFA; and Prof Hussein Abbass, UNSW@ADFA
Outreach Manager: Athol Yates
Recent RNSA supported events
Climate Change Adaptation Information Sharing Forum, September 2009, Canberra. Presentations.
Safeguarding Australia 2009 Conference, August 2009 Website
PhD National Security Workshop, August 2009 Website
Recent Publications
National Security Researchers' Directory, Website
Doomed to repeat? Terrorism and the Lessons of History, Website