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ProfDora Marinova

Professor, Sustainability

School of Design and the Built Environment

Orcid identifier0000-0001-5125-8878
  • Professor, Sustainability
    School of Design and the Built Environment

BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH IMPACT

Dora Marinova is Professor of Sustainability at the Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, Australia which she established in 2007 and where she was Director between 2015 and 2018. Her areas of research interest cover sustainability, innovation and sustainometrics. Dora has more than 400 refereed publications and has supervised 85 PhD students to successful completion. Her books Food in a Planetary Emergency (published in 2022) and Gener Z and the Future of Food (published in 2026) received “Best in the World” in the prestigious 28th and 31st Gourmand Awards. Ten of her papers are rated by Altmetric in the top 5% in the world for the social media attention they received. Since 2013, Dora has served as a member of different peer review panels of Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). She is an Elected Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and Elected Fellow of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ). For the period 1975–2023, Scopus lists her as Australia’s top author and 21st in the world in the area of sustainability. According to ScholarGPS, Dora is in the top 0.5% scholars worldwide for 2024.

ROLE

  • Staff

SUPERVISOR LEVEL

  • Level 1 (Primary Supervisor): The lead academic responsible for overseeing the candidate's research and progress.

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • 3304 - Urban and regional planning
  • 3502 - Banking, finance and investment
  • 3505 - Human resources and industrial relations
  • 3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 3801 - Applied economics
  • 4104 - Environmental management
  • 4404 - Development studies
  • 4406 - Human geography
  • 4407 - Policy and administration
  • 4901 - Applied mathematics

DEPARTMENT

  • School of Design and the Built Environment