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Research Leadership & Project Governance

NanoTRIZ engages qualified researchers, technical specialists, and industry experts to support defined research and innovation projects.

Project roles

  • Project Scientific Advisor
    Provides specialist review and strategic guidance.

  • Project Scientific Lead
    Coordinates scientific methods, analysis, and quality review, and holds final authority on scientific matters within the project.

  • Project Delivery Lead
    Coordinates milestones, documentation, and delivery.

A project may have more than one Project Scientific Lead, with responsibilities divided in writing (Project Scientific Co-Lead).

Roles are assigned according to actual responsibilities, qualifications, project requirements, and documented authority. A role exists only in relation to a specific, named project with defined start and end dates. NanoTRIZ does not confer standing scientific titles independent of a project.

These are internal, project-based designations. They do not constitute university faculty appointments, accredited research supervision, higher-degree supervision, tenure, employment, academic qualifications, or permanent institutional affiliation. Scientific authority within a project does not transfer legal or institutional responsibility, which rests with the operator of NanoTRIZ.

One exception is Affiliate Researcher: an external, honorary designation for established researchers who work with NanoTRIZ. It is not employment or a university appointment, carries no salary or workload, and continues until either side ends it in writing. It is listed as “Affiliate Researcher, NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute, Australia”. Affiliate Researchers may list NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute as an additional affiliation for work they carry out with NanoTRIZ, are fully responsible for that work’s ethics and integrity, and inform NanoTRIZ before submitting it. NanoTRIZ may withdraw the designation after misconduct or misuse.

Conditions of engagement

Engagement requires a signed written agreement and written confirmation that the role-holder's primary employer or institution does not object to the role. Where the role involves supervision of participants under 18, the role-holder must hold the child-related screening required in Queensland and comply with any equivalent requirement in their own jurisdiction.

Roles may be remunerated. Remuneration may include a share of program fees; where it does, the participants concerned are told this in writing before they enrol. Where a role-holder supervises fee-paying participants, the role-holder must not allow that financial interest to influence assessment, authorship, or progression decisions.

Where a role is unpaid, it must be genuinely voluntary and must not replace work that would otherwise be paid employment under Australian workplace law, including the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).

Written engagement

Each engagement is defined in writing. The agreement defines:

  • Project scope and responsibilities

  • Decision-making and review authority

  • Confidentiality and intellectual property

  • Authorship and publication arrangements

  • Conflicts of interest

  • Duration, and permitted public use of the role during and after the engagement

  • Compensation, where applicable

Researchers affiliated with another institution remain responsible for complying with their employer's policies concerning outside activities, conflicts of interest, intellectual property, and public affiliations. Employment, contractor, or voluntary status is determined by the applicable agreement, the practical nature of the relationship, and Australian law, not by the project title alone.

Research ethics

NanoTRIZ does not operate its own Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) or Animal Ethics Committee. Any project involving human participants, their identifiable data or samples, or animals must obtain prior approval from an appropriately constituted external ethics committee, consistent with the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research and the Australian Code for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes. Role-holders must not begin such work, or describe it as ethically approved, until written approval is in place.

Authorship and publication affiliation

Authorship on any output arising from a project is determined by documented intellectual contribution, assessed against ICMJE criteria and recorded using CRediT roles. Authorship and author order are never determined by payment, role title, or seniority.

Use of NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute as an institutional affiliation on a publication requires separate written approval and is granted per research output, where the relevant work was genuinely conducted within the project. Holding a role does not itself confer affiliation rights, and approval for one output does not extend to any other. Affiliate Researchers follow the affiliation rule set out under Project roles instead.

Public representation

A NanoTRIZ role may be listed publicly only where it has been formally documented and accurately describes work actually performed. The listing must state the project and the relevant dates:

  • Project Scientific Advisor, NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute, Australia — [Project Name], [dates]

  • Project Scientific Lead, NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute, Australia — [Project Name], [dates]

  • Project Delivery Lead, NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute, Australia — [Project Name], [dates]

Optional suffixes: “(Remote)” where the work is performed outside Australia, and “(Independent Contractor)” where the role is paid under a contractor agreement.

Titles must not be shortened, reformulated, or listed without a project and dates in a way that implies a standing appointment, employment, or institutional affiliation. Role-holders may not sign contracts, make commitments, accept payments, negotiate partnerships, or use NanoTRIZ branding without written authorisation.

NanoTRIZ lists a person's name, image, role, or project information on its website or in any public material only with that person's prior written approval for the specific use and wording. NanoTRIZ may withdraw a role designation where an engagement ends, is not performed as documented, or where public use is inconsistent with these principles; withdrawal includes a request to remove the listing from personal profiles and CVs.

Status

NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute is a registered business name under which Alexander A. Solovev operates as an Australian sole trader, ABN 60 349 600 938, in Brisbane, Queensland. It is not a separately incorporated company, and any agreement is entered into with him individually.

NanoTRIZ is not a university, not a TEQSA-registered higher-education provider, not an ASQA-registered training organisation, and not a CRICOS-registered provider. These roles do not constitute accredited university appointments or higher-degree supervision, and NanoTRIZ cannot issue recognised Australian higher-education awards.

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