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Venessa Barrins

General Manager People Performance & Capability

With almost 30 years of Human Resources (HR) experience, Venessa has worked at global investment banking and some of Australia's top financial institutions.

Research highlights importance of traditional fire burning practices to ensure survival of tree with Indigenous cultural and ecological significance

Radiocarbon dating at ANSTO’s Centre for Accelerator Science provided strong evidence that some culturally significant trees on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) have persisted for up to more than 500 years

Feather Map of Australia

Elusive class of compounds found

Neutron scattering has contributed to a 'tour de force' of chemistry led by Monash University.

Research raises concerns over long term use of chromium diet pills

Insights into Titan’s atmosphere

Terahertz/Far Infrared beamlines assisted investigation into possible composition of lower atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan.

Webinar: Strengthening the future of the nuclear workforce

Join us for this online webinar to explore and discuss the huge opportunities in growing a dynamic and impactful future nuclear workforce.

Repatriation of Australian waste from France

Two lectures from distinguished physicist

Dr Catalina Curceanu will explore exotic atoms and impossible phenomena in the universe.

Interstellar measurements at ANSTO provide new insights into the formation of gold and other heavy elements

ANSTO’s Centre for Accelerator Science measures extra-terrestrial plutonium in a study to clarify the origin of the heavier elements

Tracing the impact of toxic metals

Two ANSTO environmental scientists are part of a large team led by the Australian National University (ANU), who have received an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant to investigate how environmental change and human activities since industrialisation have impacted the transport and deposition of toxic metals on the south coast of Australia, Tasmania, and remote Southern Ocean islands.

Meteorites from the red desert of Australia support search for life on the red planet Mars

Monash University, University of Queensland and Australian National University researchers have used ANSTO’s Australian Synchrotron in their study of meteorites found on Earth that could be used in future to find evidence of life on the planet Mars.

Hijacker parasite blocked from infiltrating blood

International collaboration uses Australian Synchrotron on pioneering malaria research.

Researchers uncover how pathogens hijack phosphate pathways to infect crops

A team of scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered how a powerful “weapon” used by many fungal pathogens enables them to cause disease in major food crops such as rice and corn

Visit our Sydney facilities

ANSTO's Sydney locations are home to the Open Pool Australian Light-water (OPAL) multi-purpose reactor, the Centre for Accelerator Science (CAS), the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering, the National Research Cyclotron and the National Deuteration Facility.