Arnaud Castel graduated with his PhD in 2000 at the University of Toulouse in France where he has carried out his early career before his relocation to UNSW Australia in 2012. He has co-authored/authored 150 publications, including 70 journal papers with a current scopus H-index of 21 and more than 1500 citations. Since his relocation to UNSW, A/Professor Arnaud Castel has secured over AU$1,500,000 research funds including ARC Discovery projects, ARC Linkage projects and CRC projects