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Dr Darsy Darssan is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He obtained three degrees in Statistics from the mathematical sciences schools of three different universities: a Bachelor of Science with Honours in 2005 at the University of Jaffna, a Master of Applied Science in 2008 at RMIT University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2014 at Queensland University of Technology.

While completing his two-year full-time, traditional, face-to-face master's degree, Darsy worked as a part-time Statistician at the Australian Council for Educational Research for a year.

Between the two bouts of postgraduate studies, Darsy worked for two years: a year as a Statistician at the University of New South Wales and another year as an Associate Research Fellow in Applied Statistics at the University of Wollongong.

While pursuing the highest degree in Statistics, Darsy worked as a sessional academic, teaching introductory statistics to various cohorts of first-year undergraduate students. Upon completing his doctoral degree, Darsy moved to the University of Liverpool in the UK to conduct his Postdoctoral research in Biostatistics. Darsy returned home in late 2015 and worked as a Biostatistician at The University of Queensland for three years before taking the current position.

Career Statistician:

As a career statistician, Darsy is interested in developing or extending statistical methodologies to solve problems that arise in real-world data analysis and data collection in Biomedical research.

Service Statistician:

Darsy has experience working as a service statistician. He mainly worked on clinical trials where he was involved in study designs, randomisation, protocols development, statistical analysis plans, final statistical reports. He actively participated in data safety monitoring boards. Darsy provided statistical service to Biologists, Rheumatologists, Ophthalmologists, Nephrologist, Endocrinologist and Health Service Researchers.

Dr Ben Tscharke is an analytical chemist with a keen interest in quantifying analytes in environmental samples. Ben is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland research institute, Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), joining in February 2017 after graduating his PhD from the University of South Australia the previous year. His key focus at QAEHS involves the wastewater based epidemiological approach to determine community consumption and exposure to a range of illicit drugs, pharmaceuticals and personal care products. He leads the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission's National Wastewater Drug Monitoring program at UQ, which collaborates with the University of South Australia (https://www.acic.gov.au/publications/intelligence-products/national-wastewater-drug-monitoring-program-report).