Michael Bannister, BSc, BE, PhD

Program Manager - Operations and Sustainment

Dr Michael Bannister has over 22 years of research experience in the field of composite materials. He joined the (then called) Cooperative Research Centre for Aerospace Structures in 1992 and has spent the subsequent 18 years gaining significant expertise in a wide range of composite technologies, including advanced Non-destructive Inspection (NDI) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), resin development, nanocomposites and advanced textile reinforcements.

Michael is currently a Program Manager at ACS Australia, managing contract R&D activities with major international companies, simultaneously leading the research activity within the CRC-ACS program in Operations and Sustainment. He also manages the Education Program at CRC-ACS and holds the position of Professorial Fellow at RMIT University. Michael has over 100 journal and conference publications, has co-authored a book on 3-D fibre reinforced composites and was a section editor for the “Encyclopaedia of Structural Health Monitoring” (Wiley 2009).