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Swan Leaf is a company that manufactures reference materials for trace element analysis used in agriculture, environmental monitoring and forensic analysis. Swan Leaf is also developing a database of analytical laboratory marketplace.

The Simulation Group is a world leader in detailed analysis and optimisation of complex supply chains.We specialise in providing fact based strategic insights to the most challenging business problems. Founded in 1999, The Simulation Group has grown to become one of the largest consultancies of its type in the world and has completed more than 500 projects in many countries and continents including Australia, South America, Africa, Indonesia and Canada. Our people are the best in the business. Members of the executive team pioneered dynamic simulation modeling approaches to the mining, transport and logistics industry over twenty years ago. We now have a committed core of over 40 consultants which includes highly experienced directors and senior staff ensuring continuity in our work with clients. The Simulation Group's Consultants have a combination of mining, operations management, problem solving and business experience. This is coupled with strong academic backgrounds and a passion for solving complex problems through a combination of advanced analytical skills and client engagement.

1.  QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD (Teknologie Doktor): Department of Human Factors Engineering (former Department of Injury Prevention), School of Mechanical and Vehicular Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden: 2000
• MSc (with distinction): Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland: 1992

2. APPOINTMENTS AND EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• My employment record includes 12 years of academic career at the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia) and 7 years of a industrial research career at Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories TCRDL, Japan Automobile Research Institute JARI and ESI Group in France (manufacturer of finite element codes PAM-SOLID, PAM-SAFE and PAM-CRASH).

3. RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

• Algorithms and models of computational biomechanics for image guided-surgery, surgical planning, surgery simulation and surgical robot control
• Real-time computation on commodity hardware
• Injury biomechanics

Dr Putrino develops advanced sensors based on technologies such as silicon photonics and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

He is involved in a large number of sensing applications which include volatile organic gas sensing such as toluene/benzene, sensing of bacteria for biomedical applications, and spectroscopic measurement of chemical components for a wide variety of agricultural and industrial applications.