TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

Supervision and Student Mentorship

Throughout his career, Professor Catchpoole has successfully supervised the completion of:

  • 17 Honours/Capstone/Industry students, including:
    • 6 awarded First Class Honours/High Distinction
    • 3 recipients of medals or prizes
  • 3 Master of Science (MSc) students
  • 12 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students across multiple tertiary institutions

At UTS Professor Catchpoole has jointly supervised 12 students to completion and is currently supervising 6 PhD candidates. Through his strong connections with biomedical research centres and hospitals, his students have engaged in a variety of collaborative research projects between the Faculty of Engineering and IT and The Children's Cancer Research Unit at The Children's Hospital at Westmead.

Teaching Appointments

1995–1996: Students Academic Supervisor, Gonville & Caius College and Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK

2001–2010: Lecturer, Cells and Development course, Department of Anatomy, University of Sydney

2002–2012: Research Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney

2004–2007: Conjoint Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales

2005–present: Casual Lecturer, Bioinformatics and Data Mining, School of Computing, University of Technology Sydney