Associate Professor Kim Blackmore is a Senior Fellow in the ANU Centre for Energy Systems. Kim enjoys the richness of collaborating across disciplines to address complex systems challenges. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Member of Engineers Australia. 

Kim began her academic journey with a PhD in Machine Learning followed by a role as a Defence Research Scientist in telecommunications. Kim spent time at the University of Canberra, where she advanced to Director of Teaching and Learning, overseeing academic services and a university-wide curriculum transformation. 

Returning to ANU in 2019, she directed the Centre for Learning and Teaching, guiding the University through the challenges of remote learning during COVID-19. In recent times Kim has been exploring the lens of cybernetics, and how systems thinking can be deployed in pursuit of decarbonisation and sustainability. 

Research interests

Decarbonisation and energy transition

• Systems thinking, cybernetics
• Recycling, circular economy
• Distributed energy, food and waste systems
• Interdisciplinary approaches to higher education
• Educational technology and its impact on the higher education system
   

Earlier work

• Machine Learning
• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks