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THE FELLOWSHIP
Election to the Fellowship recognises a career that has significantly advanced the world's store of scientific knowledge. The Academy also elects a small fraction of its Fellows by Special Election, recognising conspicuous service to the cause of science. There are now 427 Fellows.
Fellows elected to the Academy in 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Z
Ada, Gordon Leslie, AO, DSc, FAA
Emeritus Professor, Division of Immunology and Genetics,
John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Speciality: Vaccine development for infections; non-communicable diseases, including cancer.
Year of election: 1964
Adams, Jerry Mckee, PhD, FAA, FRS, NAS
Joint Head, Molecular Genetics of Cancer Division, and Director, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Specialized Center of Research, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: The genetics of haemopoietic differentiation and malignancy.
Year of election: 1986
Allen, David Grant, MBBS, PhD, FAA
Professor of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney
Website: www.physiol.usyd.edu.au/~davida
Speciality: Cardiac and skeletal muscle physiology.
Year of election: 2006
Anderson, Brian David Outram, AO, PhD, DHC (Louvain), Hon Dr ScTech (Swiss Fed Inst Tech), Hon DEng (Syd, Melb, Newcastle), Hon DSc (UNSW), FAA, FRS, FTSE
Professor, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University
Website: http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~briandoa/
Speciality: Control systems; signal processing; telecommunications.
Year of election: 1974
Anderson, Jan Mary, PhD, FDhc (Umeå), FAA, FRS
Adjunct Professor, Photobioenergetics Group,
Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University
Website: rsbs.anu.edu.au/Profiles/Jan_Anderson
Speciality: Thylakoid membranes; photosynthesis; acclimation; photoinactivation; molecular organisation.
Year of election: 1987
Andrews, Thomas John, PhD, FAA
Professor
Speciality: Biochemistry and molecular biology of photosynthetic carbon metabolism.
Year of election: 1998
Angus, James Alexander, PhD, FAA
Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Cardiovascular pharmacology; analytical bioassay; drug mechanism.
Year of election: 1996
Angyal, Stephen John, OBE, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Stereochemistry; carbohydrates.
Year of election: 1962
Antonia, Robert Anthony, PhD, FAA
Emeritus Professor, Discipline of Mechanical Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
Speciality: Turbulent flows.
Year of election: 2004
Archer, Michael, AM, PhD, FAA, FACE, FRZS
Professor of Biological Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales
Speciality: Evolutionary history of Australian marsupials and monotremes.
Year of election: 2002
Armstrong, Bruce Konrad, AM, DPhil, FAA, FAFPHM, FRACP
Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney
Website: www.medfac.usyd.edu.au/people/academics/profiles/brucea.php
Speciality: Epidemiology; gene and environment interactions in cancer aetiology and prevention; measuring cancer services quality.
Year of election: 2000
Bacic, Antony, PhD, FAA
Professor and Director, Plant Cell Biology Research Centre,
School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Website: http://www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/botany/aboutus/staff/bacic.html
Speciality: Structure and biology of complex carbohydrates.
Year of election: 2008
Baddeley, Adrian John, PhD, FAA
Professor of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia
Website: www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~adrian
Speciality: Spatial statistics; stereology; statistical image analysis; stochastic geometry; statistical computing.
Year of election: 2000
Badger, Murray Ronald, PhD, FAA
Professor, Molecular Plant Physiology Group, Research School of Biology, Australian National University
Website: www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/Profiles/murray_badger/
Speciality: Photosynthetic carbon dioxide acquisition and metabolism.
Year of election: 2008
Ball, Marilyn Crowl, PhD, FAA
Professor and Head, Functional Ecology Group,
Research School of Biology, Australian National University
Website: http://www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/Profiles/Marilyn_Ball/
Speciality: Plant physiology: mechanisms of stress tolerance in plants and their ability to function in complex, highly variable environments.
Year of election: 2009
Banwell, Martin Gerhardt, PhD, FAA, FRACI, Hon. FRSNZ
Professor of Chemistry and Director, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Speciality: Chemical synthesis; biologically active natural products.
Year of election: 2004
Barber, Michael Newton, PhD, FAA
President and Vice-Chancellor, Flinders University
Speciality: Statistical mechanics; advanced computation; science planning and policy.
Year of election: 1992
Bartlett, Perry Francis, PhD, FAA
ARC Federation Fellow and Director, The Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
Speciality: Molecular and cellular neuroscience of neural plasticity.
Year of election: 2003
Basten, Antony, AO, DPhil, FAA, FRACP, FRCP, FRCPA, FTSE
Speciality: Cellular and molecular aspects of regulation of immune responses.
Year of election: 1992
Batterham, Robin John, AO, PhD, Hon LLD (Melb), Hon DSc (UTS), FAA, FAICD, FAIM, FAusIMM, FIChemE, FIEAust, FNAE, FREng, FTSE
Chief Scientist, Rio Tinto Limited
Speciality: Representing science, engineering and technology to Government; mineral processing; innovation.
Year of election: 2000
Baxter, Robert Charles, DSc, FAA, FAACB
Professor and Director, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital
Speciality: Molecular and cellular endocrinology; growth factors.
Year of election: 2004
Baxter, Rodney James, PhD, ScD (Cantab), FAA, FRS
Visiting Fellow, CMA, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Year of election: 1977
Beckwith, Athelstan Laurence Johnson, AO, DPhil, Hon DSc (UWA), FAA, FRACI, FRS
Emeritus Professor, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Speciality: Free radical chemistry; mechanism, synthesis, biological aspects.
Year of election: 1973
Bedding, Robin Anthony, PhD, FAA
Honorary Fellow, CSIRO Entomology
Speciality: Nematodes of insects; predatory nematodes; biological control.
Year of election: 1997
Bennett, Martin Arthur, DSc, FAA, FRACI, FRS, FRSChem
Emeritus Professor, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Speciality: Organometallic and coordination chemistry; homogeneous catalysis.
Year of election: 1980
Bennett, Maxwell Richard, AO, DSc, FAA
Professor of Neuroscience, University Chair and Scientific Director, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney
Website: www.physiol.usyd.edu.au/research/labs/nrc
Speciality: Formation and function of synapses; history and philosophy of neuroscience.
Year of election: 1981
Bergersen, Fraser John, AM, DSc, FAA, FRS
Speciality: Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legume root nodules.
Year of election: 1985
Bilger, Robert William, DPhil, FAA, FTSE
Emeritus Professor, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, J07, University of Sydney
Website: www.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/people/bilger.html
Speciality: Mechanical engineering.
Year of election: 2003
Birch, Louis Charles, AM, DSc, Hon DSc (Syd), FAA
Speciality: Population ecology.
Year of election: 1961
Bishop, Peter Orlebar, AO, DSc, Hon MD (Syd), FAA, FRS
Speciality: Visual neurophysiology and psychophysics; binocular vision.
Year of election: 1967
Blanden, Robert Vincent, MDS, PhD, FAA
Emeritus Professor, Division of Immunology and Genetics,
John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Speciality: Hypermutation of antibody genes; immunity against infection.
Year of election: 1979
Blevin, William Roderick, AM, DSc, FAA, FAIP, FInstP, FTSE
Speciality: Applied physics; metrology; optical radiometry and photometry.
Year of election: 1985
Boardman, Norman Keith, AO, ScD(Cantab), Hon DSc (Newcastle), FAA, FRS, FTSE
Speciality: Molecular biology; photosynthesis; science policy.
Year of election: 1972
Boger, David Vernon, PhD, FAA, FRS, FTSE
Laureate Professor and Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Polymer and particulate fluid mechanics.
Year of election: 1993
Bond, Alan Maxwell, DSc, FAA, FRACI, FRSChem
ARC Federation Fellow and R L Martin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Monash University
Website: www.chem.monash.edu.au/electrochem
Speciality: Electrochemistry; electron transfer reactions.
Year of election: 1990
Boswell, Roderick William, PhD, FAA, FAPS, FTSE
Professor, Plasma Research Laboratory, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Website: www.rsphysse.anu.edu.au/~rwb112/SP3/Boswell/Boswell.html
Speciality: Basic and applied plasma physics.
Year of election: 2008
Burgman, Mark Alexander, PhD, FAA
Professor and Director, Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis,
School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Website: www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/envisci/about/staff/burgman.html
Speciality: Ecology; applied mathematics; conservation biology; risk analysis.
Year of election: 2006
Burke, David James, AO, MD, DSc, FAA, FRACP, FTSE
Bushell Professor of Neurology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Director of Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
Speciality: Reflex function; control of movement and sensation in human subjects.
Year of election: 1995
Burnstock, Geoffrey, PhD, DSc, Hon FRCP, Hon FRCS, FAA, FMed Sci, FRS
President, Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, Royal Free and University College Medical School, UK
Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/ani/
Speciality: Autonomic neuroscience; purinergic signalling; pathophysiology.
Year of election: 1971
Boyle, Brian John, PhD, FAA
Director, Australia Telescope National Facility
Website: www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Brian.Boyle
Speciality: Cosmology and the evolution of quasars.
Year of election: 2006
Brennan, Maxwell Howard, AO, PhD, Hon DSc (Flind), Hon DUniv (QUT), FAA
Speciality: Plasma physics; research policy.
Year of election: 1988
Brent, Richard Peirce, DSc, FAA, FACM, FAustMS, FBCS, FIEEE, FIMA
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications
Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Website: www.maths.anu.edu.au/~brent/
Speciality: Computing science; number theory; algorithms; numerical analysis.
Year of election: 1982
Brown, Gavin, AO, PhD, Hon LLD (Dundee, St Andrews), FAA, CorrFRSE
Inaugural Director, Royal Institution of Australia
Website: www.riaustralia.org.au
Speciality: Mathematics; Fourier analysis.
Year of election: 1981
Bruce, Michael Ian, DSc, Dr hc (Rennes 1), FAA, FRACI
Emeritus Professor, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of Adelaide
Speciality: Chemistry of organometallics, clusters and carbon-rich molecules.
Year of election: 1989
Buchdahl, Hans Adolf, DSc (Lond, Tas), FAA
Speciality: General relativity theory; thermodynamics; Hamiltonian optics.
Year of election: 1968
Budd, William Francis, PhD, FAA
Professor Emeritus, University of Tasmania
Speciality: Antarctic research and global climate.
Year of election: 1993
Burdon, Jeremy James, PhD, Hon DSc (Umeå), FAA
Chief, CSIRO Plant Industry
Speciality: Evolution of hosts and pathogens; ecology; ecosystem restoration; conservation.
Year of election: 1996
Burger, Henry George, AO, MD, Hon DSc (Liege), FAA, FCP(SA), FRACP, FRANZCOG, FRCOG, FRCP
Emeritus Director, Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, Monash Medical Centre
Speciality: Endocrinology; reproduction; menopause; infertility; inhibin.
Year of election: 1994
Campbell, Julie Hazel, AO, PhD, FAA
Director, Centre for Research in Vascular Biology,
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), University of Queensland
Website: www.aibn.uq.edu.au
Speciality: Cardiovascular disease; smooth muscle biology; artificial arteries; adult stem cells.
Year of election: 2000
Campbell, Kenton Stewart Wall, PhD, FAA, FGSAust
Emeritus Professor, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Speciality: Vertebrate palaeontology; early evolution; palaeozoic stratigraphy.
Year of election: 1983
Canty, Allan James, DSc, FAA, FRACI
Professor, School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania
Website: fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/chem/pagedetails.asp?lpersonId=41
Speciality: Organometallic and coordination chemistry.
Year of election: 2001
Carter, John Phillip, AM, PhD, DEng, FAA, FIEAust, FTSE
Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
Website: http://livesite.newcastle.edu.au/cgmm/profiles/profile_john_carter.page?
Speciality: Computational and experimental geomechanics: prediction of the behaviour of geotechnical structures.
Year of election: 2009
Caruso, Frank, PhD, FAA, FRACI
ARC Federation Fellow, Professor and Director, Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne
Website: www.chemeng.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/caruso.html
Speciality: Nanoengineering of surface structures through polymer self-assembly.
Year of election: 2009
Cavill, George William Kenneth, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Organic and biological chemistry.
Year of election: 1969
Chalmers, John Philip, AC, PhD, Hon MD (FUSA, Qld, NSW, Syd), Hon FRACS, Hon FRCP, HonFRCP(Glasgow), Hon FRCPEd, FAA, FRACM, FRACP
Senior Director, The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney
Website: www.thegeorgeinstitute.org
Speciality: Hypertension and brain mechanisms; clinical trials and epidemiology.
Year of election: 1987
Chappell, Bruce William, DSc, FAA
Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong
Speciality: Evolution of granites and their role in the fractionation of the Earth's crust.
Year of election: 1998
Chappell, John Michael Arthur, PhD, FAA
Professor, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Speciality: Long-term dynamics of landscape, coasts, coral reefs and climate.
Year of election: 1992
Choo, Kong-Hong Andy, PhD, FAA
Professor, NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Theme Director, Laboratory and Community Genetics and Head, Chromosome Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children's Hospital
Speciality: Human molecular genetics: genetic and epigenetic regulatory mechanisms of chromosome integrity in cancer and stem cells.
Year of election: 2009
Clarebrough, Leo Michael, OAM, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Physics of metals.
Year of election: 1978
Clark, Graeme Milbourne, AC, PhD, Hon MD (Syd, Hanover), Hon DSc (Wollongong), Hon DEng (CYC Taiwan), Hon LLD (Monash), Hon FRCS, Hon FRSM, FAA, FAAS, FRACS, FRCSEd, FRCS, FRS, FTSE
Distinguished Professor, The Graeme Clark Centre for Bionic Ear and Neurosensory Research, La Trobe University
Speciality: Neuroscience, psychophysics, speech science, bioengineering, medical technology, applied physics.
Year of election: 1998
Clark, Robert Graham, PhD, FAA
Chief Defence Scientist, Department of Defence, Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Speciality: Quantum computing; semiconductor nanotechnology; condensed matter physics.
Year of election: 2001
Clarke, Adrienne Elizabeth, AC, PhD, FAA, FTSE
Laureate Professor, School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Plant biology, particularly reproduction and cell wall chemistry.
Year of election: 1991
Cockburn, Andrew, PhD, FAA
Director of the College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, and Professor, Evolutionary Ecology, Research School of Biology, Australian National University
Website: www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/staffandstudents/staffprofiles/cockburn.php
Speciality: Behavioural ecology; evolutionary theory.
Year of election: 2001
Cole, Keith David, DSc, FAA, FAIP, FInstP
Emeritus Professor, School of Physics, La Trobe University
Speciality: Theory of of the ionosphere; magnetosphere system; space research.
Year of election: 1983
Colless, Matthew Malcolm, PhD, FAA
Director, Anglo-Australian Observatory
Website: www.aao.gov.au/local/www/colless/
Speciality: Observational cosmology; galaxy and cluster evolution.
Year of election: 2004
Colman, Peter Malcolm, PhD, Hon DSc (Syd), FAA, FTSE
Professor and Head, Structural Biology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Website: www.wehi.edu.au
Speciality: Structural biology.
Year of election: 1989
Coltheart, Max, PhD, DSc, FAA, FASSA, FBA
Scientific Director, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University
Website: www.maccs.mq.edu.au/~max
Speciality: Cognitive science; cognitive neuropsychology.
Year of election: 2001
Compston, William, PhD, Hon DSc (UWA), FAA, FRS, FTSE
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Speciality: Numerical timescale for the evolution of the solar systems, Earth and its organisms.
Year of election: 1971
Cook, David Ian, PhD, FAA, FRACP
Professor of Cell Physiology, Epithelial Transport Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Sydney
Speciality: Transport processes in the cell membrane; the manner in which cells control membrane transport activity.
Year of election: 2004
Cooper, David Albert, AO, MD, DSc, FAA, FRACP, FRCP, FRCPA
Scienta Professor of Medicine and Director, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Website: www.med.unsw.edu.au/nchecr/
Speciality: HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral therapy.
Year of election: 2007
Cory, Suzanne, AC, PhD, Hon DSc (Syd, Oxf), FAA, FRS
Professor and Director, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Molecular genetics of haemopoietic neoplasia and apoptosis.
Year of election: 1986
Costa, Marcello, MD, FAA
Professor of Neurophysiology, Department of Human Physiology, School of Medicine, Flinders University of South Australia
Speciality: Neuroscience, neural circuits controlling internal organs; philosphy of science.
Year of election: 1989
Couch, Warrick John, PhD, FAA
ARC Professorial Fellow, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
Speciality: Observational cosmology; galaxy and cluster evolution.
Year of election: 2009
Cowan, Ian Roy, PhD, FAA
Speciality: History and art of natural history.
Year of election: 1984
Cowling, Michael George, PhD, FAA
Mason Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Birmingham, UK
Website: www.mat.bham.ac.uk
Speciality: Harmonic analysis; Lie Groups; algebraic groups.
Year of election: 1993
Cowman, Alan Frederick, PhD, FAA
Professor and Head, Infection and Immunity Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Infectious diseases; virulence determinants of malaria and mechanism of resistance to antimalarials.
Year of election: 2001
Cox, Graeme Barry, PhD, FAA
Year of election: 1990
Craig, David Parker, AO, DSc, Hon DSc (Syd), Hon Dr Chem (Bologna), FAA, FRS
Emeritus Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Faculties, Australian National University
Speciality: Theoretical chemistry.
Year of election: 1969
Crompton, Robert Woodhouse, AM, PhD, FAA
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Speciality: Atomic and molecular physics; low temperature plasma physics.
Year of election: 1979
Crossley, Maxwell John, PhD, FAA, FRACI
Professor of Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) and University Professorial Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
Website: www.chem.usyd.edu.au/~crossley
Speciality: Synthesis and properties of functional organic molecules; porphyrin chemistry; molecular electronics; artificial photosynthesis; nanoscience.
Year of election: 2001
Crozier, Rossiter Henry, PhD, FAA, FAAAS
ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University
Website: medusa.jcu.edu.au/crozier/croziergrouphome
Speciality: Evolutionary biology.
Year of election: 2003
Dance, Ian Gordon, PhD, FAA, FRACI
Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Website: www.chem.unsw.edu.au/staffprofiles/dance.html
Speciality: Inorganic, supramolecular and computational chemistry.
Year of election: 1997
Dancer, Edward Norman, PhD, FAA
Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, F07, University of Sydney
Speciality: Nonlinear analysis; nonlinear differential equations.
Year of election: 1996
Dawes, Ian William, DPhil, FAA
Professor of Genetics, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales
Website: http://www.babs.unsw.edu.au/staff_directory/dawesi.html
Speciality: Yeast genetics; microbiology.
Year of election: 2007
Day, Maxwell Frank Cooper, AO, PhD, FAA
Speciality: Biology: ecology, environment, forestry, virology; administration of research.
Year of election: 1956
Day, Ross Henry, PhD, Hon DSc (Latrobe), Hon DUniv (La Trobe), FAA, FASSA
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University
Speciality: Human perception and sensory processes.
Year of election: 1990
de Kretser, David M, AC, MBBS, MD, Hon LLD (Monash), FAA, FRACOG, FRACP, FTSE, Hon FRCOG
Governor of Victoria
Speciality: Reproductive biology; endocrinology.
Year of election: 1996
Delbourgo, Robert, DSc, FAA
Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania
Speciality: Quantum field; properties of elementary particles.
Year of election: 1988
Dennis, Elizabeth Salisbury, PhD, FAA, FAAAS, FTSE
CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Plant Industry
Website: www.csiro.au
Speciality: Plant molecular biology; gene regulation; Arabidopsis; epitenetic regulation of genes.
Year of election: 1995
Denton, Derek Ashworth, AC, MBBS, Hon LLD (Melb), Hon FRCP, FAA, FRACP, FRS
Office of the Dean, Mental, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Evolutionary biology; phylogeny of consciousness, instinctive behaviour.
Year of election: 1979
Doddrell, David Michael, AM, DSc, FAA, FRACI
Speciality: Magnetic resonance technology, with particular reference to MRI.
Year of election: 1998
Doherty, Peter Charles, AC, PhD, Hon DSc (ANU), Hon DVSc (Qld), Hon FRSE, FAA, FRS, Nobel Laureate
Laureate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Immunology.
Year of election: 1983
Dopita, Michael Andrew, PhD, FAA
Emeritus Professor, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University
Website: www.mso.anu.edu.au/~mad
Speciality: Interstellar plasma physic; active galactic nuclei; galactic spectral evolution; starburst galaxies.
Year of election: 1996
Dracoulis, George Dennis, PhD, Hon FRSNZ, FAA, FAIP, FAPS
Professor of Physics and Head, Department of Nuclear Physics,
Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Speciality: Nuclear structure; nuclear spectroscopy; heavy ion reaction; nuclear energy.
Year of election: 1997
Drummond, Peter David, DPhil, FAA, FAIP
Professor of Theoretical Physics, Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology
Website: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/feis/caous/theory/people/peter_drummond.html
Speciality: Quantum theory; laser physics; Bose-Einstein condensation; strongly interacting fermions; theoretical genetics.
Year of election: 2003
Dunn, Ashley Roger, PhD, FAA
Science Consultant, AR Dunn & Associates
Speciality: The molecular basis of growth regulation in animal cells; animal models of human disease.
Year of election: 1995
Durrant-Whyte, Hugh Francis, PhD, FAA, FIEEE, FTSE
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Mechatronic Engineering, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney
Website: www.acfr.usyd.edu.au
Speciality: Autonomous vehicle navigation, sensor data fusion and applications of autonomous systems in cargo handling, mining and defence.
Year of election: 2009
Easton, Christopher John, PhD, DSc, FAA, FRACI, FRSC
Professor of Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Website: http://rsc.anu.edu.au/research/easton.php
Speciality: Amino acid free radicals; supramolecular chemistry; molecular recognition.
Year of election: 2004
Eastwood, Michael George, PhD, FAA
ARC Professorial Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Website: wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~eastwood/
Speciality: Differential geometry; twistor theory; representation theory; integral, CR, affine and algebraic geometry; mathematical physics; invariant theory.
Year of election: 2005
Ekers, Ronald David, PhD, FAA, FRS
CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility
Website: www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rekers
Speciality: Astronomy; cosmology; radio techniques; image formation.
Year of election: 1993
Elliott, William Herdman, PhD, FAA
Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide
Speciality: Molecular biology.
Year of election: 1965
Ellis, Graeme Reade Anthony, AO, DSc, FAA
Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics, University of Tasmania
Year of election: 1965
Ellis, Jeffrey Graham, PhD, FAA, FRS
Research Scientist and Programme Leader, Genetic Engineering for Plant Improvement, CSIRO Plant Industry
Speciality: Plant molecular biology; disease resistance genes; cloning the first plant rust resistance gene from flax.
Year of election: 2005
Esler, Murray David, AM, PhD, FAA
Associate Director, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Speciality: Academic cardiology.
Year of election: 2002
Evans, Denis James, PhD, FAA, FRACI
Professor, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Website: http://rsc.anu.edu.au/~evans/index.php
Speciality: Liquid state chemical physics; nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; dynamical systems theory of dissipative systems.
Year of election: 1994
Evans, Lloyd Thomas, AO, DSc, Hon LLD, Hon FRSNZ, FAA, FAIAS, FANZAAS, FRS
Speciality: Environmental control of plant development; crop yield potential.
Year of election: 1971
Evans, Robin John, PhD, FAA, FTSE
Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Control systems; signal processing; telecommunications.
Year of election: 2002
Ewens, Warren John, PhD, FAA, FRS
Christopher H Browne Distinguished Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Speciality: Mathematical population genetics.
Year of election: 1981
Farquhar, Graham Douglas, PhD, Dr hc (Antwerpen), FAA, FRS
Distinguished Professor and Head, Environmental Biology Group and Associate Director, Research School of Biology, Australian National University
Website: www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/Profiles/Graham_Farquhar
Speciality: Plant physiology; growth in relation to water use; stable isotopes of carbon dioxide; climate change.
Year of election: 1988
Fenner, Frank John, AC, CMG, MBE, MD, Hon MD (Monash), Dr honoris causa (Liege), Hon DSc (Oxford Brookes, ANU), DUniv (Adelaide), FAA, FRS
Emeritus Professor, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Speciality: Animal virology; environmental science; history of science.
Year of election: 1954
Field, Leslie David, DSc, FAA
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of New South Wales
Speciality: Organometallic chemistry; catalysis; NMR spectroscopy.
Year of election: 1996
Figgis, Brian Norman, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Magnetic properties; x-ray crystallography; neutron diffraction; theoretical calculations in transition metal complexes.
Year of election: 1985
Finnigan, John Joseph, PhD, FAA
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Speciality: Atmospheric turbulence over complex topography and vegetated surfaces.
Year of election: 2007
Flambaum, Victor Vilevich, DSc, FAA
Scientia Professor and Chair of Theoretical Physics, School of Physics, University of New South Wales
Website: www.phys.unsw.edu.au
Speciality: Theoretical atomic, nuclear, particle, solid state physics; astrophysics.
Year of election: 2000
Fletcher, Neville Horner, AM, PhD, DSc, FAA, FTSE
Visiting Fellow, Department of Electronic Materials Engineering,
Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Speciality: Applied physics; acoustics; materials; biophysics.
Year of election: 1976
Forrester, Peter John, PhD, FAA
Professor and ARC Professorial Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Random matrix theory; combinatorial models in statistical mechanics; statistical mechanics of log-potential systems; Macdonald polynomial theory.
Year of election: 2004
Fraser, Robert Donald Bruce, PhD, DSc, FAA
Speciality: X-ray diffraction; molecular structure of biological materials.
Year of election: 1978
Frazer, Ian Hector, MD, FAA, FRCPA, FRCP(Ed), FTSE
Director, Diamantina Institute for Cancer Immunology and Metabolic Medicine, University of Queensland
Website: www.di.uq.edu.au
Speciality: Immunology; medicine; pathology; clinical immunology.
Year of election: 2004
Frederiksen, Jorgen Segerlund, PhD, DSc, FAA
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Website: www.csiro.au/people/Jorgen.Frederiksen.html
Speciality: Atmospheric and climate dynamics; turbulence; complex systems.
Year of election: 2005
Freeman, Kenneth Charles, PhD, Hon DSc (UWA), FAA, FRS
Duffield Professor, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University
Speciality: Formation and dynamics of galaxies; dark matter in galaxies.
Year of election: 1981
Furness, John Barton, PhD, FAA
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Deputy Director, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne
Website: www.anatomy.unimelb.edu.au/researchlabs/furness
Speciality: Neuroscience; the organisation of nerve circuits and synaptic transmission.
Year of election: 1989
Gandevia, Simon Charles, MD, PhD, DSc, FAA, FRACP
NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Professor and Deputy Director, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Speciality: Human motor control; respiratory muscles; sensation.
Year of election: 1998
Gani, Joseph Mark, AM, DSc, Hon DSc (Sheffield, Wollongong), FAA
Speciality: Probability and statistics; modelling of epidemics.
Year of election: 1976
Gascoigne, Sidney Charles Bartholomew, AO, PhD, FAA
Speciality: Astronomy; astronomical history.
Year of election: 1966
Gibbs, Adrian John, PhD, ARCS, FAA
Speciality: Evolution and identification of viruses.
Year of election: 1993
Gilbert, Robert Goulston, PhD, FAA
Research Professor, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Queensland
Website: www.uq.edu.au/gilbertgroup
Speciality: Synthetic and natural polymers: synthesis, characterisation and properties.
Year of election: 1994
Gu, Min, PhD, FAA, FAIP, FInstP, FOSA, FSPIE, FTSE
Pro Vice Chancellor, Professor of Optoelectronics and Director, Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology
Website: www.swinburne.edu.au/feis/cmp/staff/mgu.html
Speciality: 3D optical imaging theory; biophotonics and nanophotonics.
Year of election: 2007
Gunning, Brian Edgar Scourse, PhD, DSc (ANU), FAA, FRS
Emeritus Professor, Plant Cell Biology Group, Research School of Biology, Australian National University
Website: www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/profiles/brian_gunning
Speciality: Plant cell biology and development; microscopy.
Year of election: 1979
Guttmann, Anthony John, PhD, FAA, FTSE
Professor of Mathematics (Personal Chair), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Website: www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~tonyg
Speciality: Statistical mechanics and combinatorics; complex systems.
Year of election: 2002
Goodnow, Christopher Carl, PhD, FAA, FRS
ARC Federation Fellow, Chief Scientific Officer, Australian Phenomics Facility, and Head, Immunology Program, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Website: www.apf.edu.au
Speciality: Immunology.
Year of election: 2002
Goodwin, Graham Clifford, PhD, Hon DTechnol (Lund), FAA, FIEAust, FIEEE, FRS, FTSE
Director and Professor of Electrical Engineering, ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle
Website: http://cdsc.newcastle.edu.au/cdsc
Speciality: Systems and control theory, especially relating to industrial control.
Year of election: 1997
Graham, Robert Michael, MD, AO, FAA, FACP, FAHA, FRACP
Executive Director, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Website: www.victorchang.edu.au
Speciality: Molecular cardiology.
Year of election: 2002
Graves, Jennifer Ann Marshall, PhD, FAA
Director, ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics and Head, Comparative Genomics Research Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University
Speciality: Mammalian genetics and genomics; sex chromosomes; sex determination.
Year of election: 1999
Green, David Headley, AM, DSc, Hon DLitt (Tas), FAA, FRS
Emeritus Professor, School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania
Speciality: Experimental petrology; geochemistry; Earth science policies.
Year of election: 1974
Green, Martin Andrew, PhD, FAA, FTSE
ARC Federation Fellow and Scientia Professor, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales
Website: www.pv.unsw.edu.au
Speciality: Photovoltaics; semiconductor physics; material properties and devices.
Year of election: 1990
Grieser, Franz, PhD, Hon DPhil (Uppsala), FAA, FRACI
Professor of Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne
Website: www.chemistry.unimelb.edu.au/people/grieser.php
Speciality: Physical chemistry; free radical chemistry; spectroscopy; colloid and surface science; sonochemistry.
Year of election: 2005
Griffiths, Ross William, PhD, FAA
Professor, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Website: rses.anu.edu.au/gfd/members/griffiths/index.htm
Speciality: Fluid dynamics; dynamics of the oceans; environmental, geophysical and volcanic processes.
Year of election: 2001
Grimshaw, Roger Hamilton James, PhD, FAA
Director, Centre for Nonlinear Mathematics and Applications, Loughborough University, UK
Website:www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~marhjg/
Speciality: Nonlinear waves; geophysical fluid dynamics.
Year of election: 1990
Haddad, Paul Raymond, PhD, DSc, FAA, FRACI, FRSC, FTSE
ARC Federation Fellow and Director, Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science,
School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania
Website: www.across.utas.edu.au
Speciality: Analytical separation science; ion chromatography; capillary zone electrophoresis; capillary electrochromatography; high-performance liquid chromatography.
Year of election: 2004
Hall, Peter Gavin, DPhil, DHC (Louvain), Hon DSc (Glasgow), FAA, FRS, CorrFRSE
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Statistics; probability.
Year of election: 1987
Hall, Ruth Milne, PhD, FAA
NHMRC Senior Principal Research Scientist, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, G08, University of Sydney
Website: www.mmb.usyd.edu.au/research.php?person=hallr
Speciality: Microbiology and genetics; antibiotic resistance genes, gene cassettes.
Year of election: 2005
Hannaford, Peter, PhD, FAA
Director, Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology
Website: www.swinburne.edu.au/feis/caous/people/hannaford.htm
Speciality: Laser spectroscopy; laser cooling; atom optics; femtosecond spectroscopy; quantum degenerate gases.
Year of election: 1991
Hardham, Adrienne Ruth, PhD, FAA
Professor, Plant Cell Biology Group, Research School of Biology, Australian National University
Website: www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/profiles/adrienne_hardham
Speciality: Plant cell biology; plant-fungal interactions.
Year of election: 1997
Harrison, Timothy Mark, PhD, FAA, FGSAust
Distinguished Professor, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, USA
Speciality: Thermochronometry; early Earth history.
Year of election: 2005
Hughes, Terence Patrick, PhD, FAA
ARC Federation Fellow and Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
Website: www.coralcoe.org.au
Speciality: Coral reefs; biodiversity; ecology; environmental management.
Year of election: 2001
Hume, Ian Douglas, DSc, FAA
Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
Speciality: Comparative digestive physiology and nutrition.
Year of election: 2007
Hunter, Robert John, AM, PhD, FAA, FRACI
Honorary Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
Website: www.chem.usyd.edu.au/research/hunter.html
Speciality: Characterisation of colloidal suspensions using electroacoustics.
Year of election: 1986
Hurst, Charles Angas, AM, PhD, Hon DSc (Melb), FAA
Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics, University of Adelaide
Speciality: Mathematical physics.
Year of election: 1972
Hush, Noel Sydney, AO, DSc, FAA, FRS
Emeritus Professor, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, G08, University of Sydney
Speciality: Quantum chemistry; electron transfer; molecular electronics.
Year of election: 1977
Hutchinson, John Edward, PhD, FAA
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Website: www.maths.anu.edu.au/~john
Speciality: Mathematics.
Year of election: 2002
Hyde, Bruce Godfrey, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Solid state chemistry; history.
Year of election: 1975
Hyde, Stephen Timothy, PhD, FAA
ARC Federation Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics,
Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Website: www.rsphysse.anu.edu.au/~sth110/sth.html
Speciality: Theoretical physics: self-assembly of complex materials and systems.
Year of election: 2005
Hynes, Michael John, PhD, FAA
Professor of Genetics, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne
Website: www.genetics.unimelb.edu.au/person/academics/mjh.html
Speciality: Fungal genetics; molecular genetics.
Year of election: 2003
Harvey, Richard Paul, PhD, FAA
Deputy Director and Head, Developmental Biology Program, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Website: www.victorchang.com.au
Speciality: Molecular cardiovascular developmental biology.
Year of election: 2007
Hatch, Marshall Davidson, AM, PhD, Hon DSc (Göttingen, Qld), FAA, FRS
Speciality: Biochemistry and physiology of photosynthetic carbon metabolism.
Year of election: 1975
Head, Alan Kenneth, AO, DSc, FAA, FRS
Speciality: Physics of metals; Lie analysis of differential equations.
Year of election: 1971
Healy, Thomas William, AO, PhD, Hon DSc (Melb), FAA, FNAE, FRACI, FTSE
Professor, Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne
Website: www.pfpc.unimelb.edu.au/people/healy.html
Speciality: Colloid and surface science; nanotechnology; mineral processing.
Year of election: 1984
Heath, William Ross, PhD, FAA
Professor, ARC Federation Fellow and HHMI International Research Scholar, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Immune response to pathogens.
Year of election: 2008
Higgins, Thomas Joseph, PhD, FAA, FTSE
Deputy Chief, CSIRO Plant Industry
Website: www.csiro.au/csiro/channel/pch7h,,.html
Speciality: Biology and molecular genetics of storage proteins; regulation of expression of their coding genes; transgene technology.
Year of election: 2004
Hill, David John, PhD, FAA, FIEAust, FIEEE
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
Website: http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~dhill/
Speciality: Control theory; network science; stability analysis
Year of election: 2007
Hilton, Douglas James, PhD, FAA
NHMRC Australia Fellow (Inaugural), Director Designate and Head, Molecular Medicine Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Website: www.wehi.edu.au/doug_hilton
Speciality: Molecular genetic regulation of blood cell formation.
Year of election: 2004
Hinde, David John, PhD, FAA
Professor, Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Website: http://www.rsphysse.anu.edu.au/nuclear/personnel.php?id=50
Speciality: Nuclear physics; heavy ion reactions.
Year of election: 2006
Hobbs, Bruce Edward, PhD, AO, FAA, FGSAust, FTSE
CSIRO
Speciality: Application of continuum mechanics; non-linear dynamics to structural geology and tectonics.
Year of election: 1991
Hobbs, Richard John, PhD, FAA
Australian Professorial Fellow, School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia
Website: www.plants.uwa.edu.au/research/ecosystem_restoration
Speciality: Conservation biology; landscape ecology; restoration ecology.
Year of election: 2004
Hoffmann, Ary Anthony, PhD, FAA
ARC Federation Fellow, Professor of Genetics and Research Director, Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research, University of Melbourne
Website: www.cesar.org.au
Speciality: Genetics: evolutionary biology; entomology.
Year of election: 2004
Holliday, Robin, PhD, FAA, FRS
Website: www.robinholliday.com
Speciality: Molecular genetics, epigenetics and ageing.
Year of election: 2005
Holloway, Bruce William, AO, DSc, FAA, FTSE
Speciality: Microbial and molecular genetics.
Year of election: 1979
Holman, Mollie Elizabeth, AO, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Innervation of smooth muscle; autonomic nervous system.
Year of election: 1970
Holmes, Andrew Bruce, AM, ScD, FAA, FRS, FTSE
Laureate Professor, School of Chemistry, Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Synthetic organic and polymer chemistry; electroactive polymers; supercritical fluids; intracellular signalling.
Year of election: 2006
Holt, Patrick George, DSc, Hon MD (Linköping), FAA
Head, Division of Cell Biology, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Speciality: Respiratory tract immunology; allergy and asthma; pediatric vaccines.
Year of election: 2001
Hopwood, John Joseph, PhD, FAA
Professor, Lysomal Diseases Research Unit, Women's and Children's Hospital
Speciality: Biotechnology; lysosomal storage disorders, biochemical genetics, early diagnosis and treatment.
Year of election: 2007
Israelachvili, Jacob Nissim, PhD, FAA, FRS, NAE, NAS
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, USA
Website: www.chemengr.ucsb.edu
Speciality: Intermolecular and surface forces; colloid science.
Year of election: 1982
Jacobsen, John Viggo, PhD, FAA
Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO Plant Industry
Speciality: Plant physiology; molecular biology.
Year of election: 2002
Jagadish, Chennupati, PhD, FAA, FAAAS, FAIP, FAPS, FAVS, FECS, FIEEE, FIET, FInstP, FIoN, FOSA, FSPIE, FTSE
ARC Federation Fellow and Distinguished Professor, Department of Electronic Materials Engineering
Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Website: www.rsphysse.anu.edu.au/eme/profile.php/7
Speciality: Semiconductor optoelectronics; nanotechnology; photovoltaics.
Year of election: 2005
James, David Ernest, PhD, FAA
Professor and Director, Diabetes and Obesity Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Cell biology; diabetes and insulin action.
Year of election: 2007
Jameson, Graeme John, AO, PhD, FAA, FIChemE, FIEAust, FRACI, FREng, FTSE
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Multiphase Processes, University of Newcastle
Speciality: Mechanics of bubbles and particles; multi-phase processes.
Year of election: 1996
Jeffrey, Shirley Winifred, AM, PhD, FAA
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Speciality: Algal physiology and ecology; photosynthetic pigments in marine microalgae; algal culture; microalgae in aquaculture; UV protection.
Year of election: 1991
Johnstone, Brian Manning, PhD, FAA
Speciality: Auditory physiology and deafness; active transport mechanism.
Year of election: 1988
Jones, Barry Owen, AO, MA, Hon LLD (Melb), Hon DSc (Macq), Dlitt (ANU, Woll, UTS), DUniv (Sthn Cross), FAA, FAHA, FTSE, FASSA, FANZAAS, FRSA, FRSV, FACE, FAIM
Speciality: Policy formulation; demographics of ageing; information theory; science and society.
Year of election: 1996
Joshi, Nalini, PhD, FAA
Professor of Applied Mathematics and Head, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Website: www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/nalini/
Speciality: Mathematical structure on nonlinear integrable systems.
Year of election: 2008
Kemp, Bruce Ernest, PhD, FAA, FRS
Pehr Edman Fellow, St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
Website: www.svimr.unimelb.edu.au
Speciality: Biochemistry; regulation of protein kinase and their substrates.
Year of election: 2000
Kemp, David James, OAM, PhD, FAA
Professor and Head, Scabies Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Molecular biology: malaria, scabies, parasites.
Year of election: 1996
Kennett, Brian Leslie Norman, ScD, FAA, FRS
Professor of Seismology and Director, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Speciality: Geophysics; seismology; structure of the Earth.
Year of election: 1994
Kerr, Allen, AO, PhD, FAA, FRS
Speciality: Plant pathology; bacteriology; plant transformation by Agrobacterium.
Year of election: 1978
Kerr, John Foxton Ross, AO, PhD, Hon DSc, FAA, FRACP, FRCP, FRCPA, FRCPath
Speciality: Cell death by apoptosis.
Year of election: 1998
Kivshar, Yuri, PhD, FAA, FAIP, FOSA, FAPS
ARC Federation Fellow, Professor and Head, Nonlinear Physics Centre,
Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Website: http://www.rsphysse.anu.edu.au/nonlinear/people/YuriKivshar.shtml
Speciality: Nonlinear optics and photonics.
Year of election: 2002
Klein, Anthony George, AM, PhD, DSc, FAA
Emeritus Professor, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Experimental physics.
Year of election: 1994
Koopman, Peter Anthony, PhD, FAA
ARC Federation Fellow, Professor of Developmental Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
Website: http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/groups/koopman/html/peterkoopman.html
Speciality: Developmental biology; molecular genetics; SRY maleness gene.
Year of election: 2008
Korner, Paul Ivan, AO, MD, FAA
Speciality: Cardiovascular physiology; cardiology; hypertension.
Year of election: 1974
Kuchel, Philip William, PhD, DSc (hc Cluj-Napoca), FAA
McCaughey Professor of Biochemistry, University of Sydney
Website: www.mmb.usyd.edu.au
Speciality: NMR of cells; theories of metabolism; molecular diffusion.
Year of election: 1997
Ladiges, Pauline Yvonne, PhD, AO, FAA
Professor (Personal Chair) and Head, School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of Australian plants.
Year of election: 2002
Lamb, Trevor David, ScD, FAA, FRS
Distinguished Professor and Research Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science,
John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Website: http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/org/dns/visual/
Speciality: Retinal photoreceptors.
Year of election: 2005
Lambeck, Kurt, PhD, DSc, PresAA, FRS, NAS
Emeritus Professor, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Website: http://rses.anu.edu.au/people/lambeck_k/index.php
Speciality: Geophysics.
Year of election: 1984
Lance, James Waldo, AO, CBE, MD, Hon DSc (UNSW), FAA, FRACP, FRCP
Speciality: Headache; movement disorders; clinical neurology; neurosciences.
Year of election: 1980
Larkins, Francis Patrick, AM, DSc, FAA, FTSE
Chief Scientist, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria, and Professor Emeritus, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Theoretical chemical physics; energy chemistry; synchroton science; science and education policy.
Year of election: 1995
Law, Phillip Garth, AC, CBE, Hon DAppSc (Melb), Hon DAppSc (RMIT), Hon DEd (Vic), Hon DSc (La Trobe), FAA, FAIP, FANZAAS, FRSV, FTSE
Speciality: Antarctic research; upper atmosphere physics; meteorolgy; marine science.
Year of election: 1978
Lay, Peter Andrew, PhD, FAA, FRACI
ARC Professorial Fellow and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
Speciality: Bioinorganic Chemistry; metal anti-diabetic, anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory drugs; heme proteins; spectroscopic medical diagnostics; synchrotron science.
Year of election: 2007
Le Couteur, Kenneth James, PhD, FAA
Speciality: Theoretical physics.
Year of election: 1960
Letham, David Stuart, PhD, Hon FRSNZ, FAA
Speciality: Biochemistry of plant hormones.
Year of election: 1983
Levick, William Russell, MSc, FAA, FRS
Visiting Fellow, Division of Psychology, Australian National University
Speciality: Neurophysiology of vision.
Year of election: 1973
Lindenmayer, David Bruce, PhD, DSc (ANU), FAA
Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Speciality: Ecology; experimental and statistical analysis of distribution, abundance and population dynamics of vertebrate populations.
Year of election: 2008
Lindoy, Leonard Francis, DSc, Hon DSc (Wollongong), FAA, FRACI, FRSC
Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
Speciality: Molecular and ionic recognition in coordination and supramolecular chemistry.
Year of election: 1993
Linnane, Anthony William, AM, DSc, FAA, FRS, FTSE
Speciality: Molecular biology and medicine; the ageing process; mitochondrial function.
Year of election: 1972
Lovering, John Francis, AO, PhD, Hon DSc (Melb, Flinders), FAA, FTSE
Speciality: Research and management of natural resources.
Year of election: 1982
Lumbers, Eugenie Ruth, MD, DSc, FAA
Emeritus Scientia Professor, Conjoint Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales,
Website: http://medicalsciences.med.unsw.edu.au/somsweb.nsf/page/home?Open
Speciality: Developmental physiology; foetal cardiovascular and renal physiology; the role(s) of the developing renin-angiotensin system; role(s) of the renin-angiotensin system in reproduction.
Year of election: 2002
Lyons, Lawrence Ernest, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Interaction of science and theology.
Year of election: 1971
MacFarlane, Douglas Robert, PhD, FAA
Professor of Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Monash University
Website: http://www.chem.monash.edu.au/staff/macfarlane.html
Speciality: Materials chemistry; cryobiology and ionic liquids.
Year of election: 2007
Mackay, Ian Reay, AM, MD, FAA, FRACP, FRCPA, FRCP
Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University
Speciality: Autoimmunity and pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases.
Year of election: 1991
Mai, Yiu-Wing, DEng, DSc, FAA, FASME, FHKEng, FHKIE, FIEAust, FRS, FTSE, FWIF
University Chair, Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Director, Centre for Advanced Materials Technology, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney
Website: www.camt.usyd.edu.au/people/Mai/index.htm
Speciality: Materials engineering; fracture-mechanical behaviours of advanced materials; nanomaterials and nanotribology.
Year of election: 2001
Main, Albert Russell, CBE, PhD, Hon DSc (UWA), FAA, FAANZAAS
Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow, School of Animal Biology, MO92, University of Western Australia
Speciality: Conservation of native Australian fauna; marsupial nutrition; adaptive radiation of semiarid Australian frogs.
Year of election: 1969
Manchester, Richard Norman, PhD, FAA
CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility
Website: www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Dick.Manchester
Speciality: Astrophysics; pulsars; supernova remnants; interstellar medium.
Year of election: 1989
Mander, Lewis Norman, PhD, Hon FRSNZ, FAA, FRS
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Website: rsc.anu.edu.au/research/mander.php
Speciality: Synthetic organic chemistry; plant bioregulators.
Year of election: 1983
Marcelja, Stjepan, PhD, FAA
Visiting Fellow, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Website: wwwrsphysse.anu.edu.au/~stm110/stm.html
Speciality: Colloids and surfaces in solutions; information science.
Year of election: 1991
Marshall, Barry James, AC, Hon MD (UWA), FAA, FRACP, FRS, Nobel Laureate
Website: www.hpylori.com.au
Speciality: Molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis of H. pylori; gastroenterology; Helicobacter pylori.
Year of election: 1999
Martin, Nicholas Gordon, PhD, FAA, FASSA
Senior Principal Research Fellow and Professor, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Website: genepi.qimr.edu.au/staff/ngmartincv.html
Speciality: Genetics of human behaviour and complex diseases.
Year of election: 2008
Martin, Raymond Leslie, AO, ScD, Hon DSc (Melb), Hon LLD (Monash), FAA, FAIM, FCS (Lond), FRACI, FTSE
Speciality: Physical and inorganic chemistry.
Year of election: 1971
Masters, Colin Louis, MD, FAA, FRCPA, FRCPath, FTSE
Laureate Professor and Executive Director, Mental Health Research Institute, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob; neuroscience.
Year of election: 1999
Mathieson, Alexander Mcleod, DSc (Melb), Hon DSc (St Andrews), FAA
Honorary Professor, Chemistry Department, La Trobe University
Speciality: X-ray diffraction; measurement procedures; extinction.
Year of election: 1967
Mattick, John Stanley, AO, PhD, FAA, FRCPA
Professor of Molecular Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
Website: http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=11681&pid=11669
Speciality: Structure of genomic programming in higher organisms.
Year of election: 2008
Mayo, Oliver, DSc, FAA, FTSE
Speciality: Evolutionary genetics; biotech start-ups.
Year of election: 1996
McCloskey, Douglas Ian, AO, DSc, FAA, FTSE
Speciality: Human sensation; movement; cardiovascular regulation.
Year of election: 1985
McComb, Arthur James, PhD, DSc, FAA, FAIBiol
Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science, School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University
Speciality: Water quality in wetlands and estuaries; organic waste management.
Year of election: 1995
McCormick, Paul Gerard, PhD, FAA, FIEAust, FTSE
Professor of Materials Engineering, Antaria Limited
Website: www.antaria.com
Year of election: 2001
McCracken, Kenneth Gordon, AO, DSc, Hon DSc (Tas), FAA, FTSE
Speciality: Geophysics (mineral exploration); solar physics and the interplanetary medium.
Year of election: 1987
McCulloch, Malcolm Thomas, PhD, FAA
Professor, Environmental Geochemistry and Geochronology, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Website: rses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eePeople/eeMalcolmMcCulloch.html
Speciality: Application of isotopic and trace element geochemical methods; climatic and anthropogenic processes on the Earth's environment.
Year of election: 2004
McDougall, Trevor John, PhD, FAA
CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Speciality: Oceanic mixing and thermodynamics; ocean's role in climate change.
Year of election: 1997
McElhinny, Michael William, PhD, Hon DSc (UWA), FAA
Gondwana Consultants
Speciality: Geomagnetism; palaeomagnetism; scientific databases.
Year of election: 1981
McEwan, Angus David, PhD, FAA, FTSE
Speciality: Geophysical fluid dynamics; international oceanography; ocean observing systems; global climate.
Year of election: 1982
McFadden, Geoffrey Ian, PhD, FAA
ARC Federation Fellow, School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Website: www.geoffmcfadden.com
Speciality: Malaria; eukaryotic organelles.
Year of election: 2005
McFadden, Phillip Lyle, DPhil, FAA
Speciality: Geomagnetism; palaeomagnetism; numerical analysis; science management.
Year of election: 1996
McIntosh, Alan Gaius Ramsay, PhD, FAA
Professor, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Speciality: Harmonic analysis; partial differential equations; operator theory.
Year of election: 1986
McIntosh, Robert Alexander, PhD, AO, FAA
Speciality: Genetics; cytogenetics; rust resistance and gene nomenclature of wheat.
Year of election: 1993
McKay, Brendan Damien, PhD, FAA
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Australian National University
Website: cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm
Speciality: Combinatorial algorithms; asymptotic enumeration; graph theory.
Year of election: 1997
McKellar, Bruce Harold John, DSc, FAA, FAIP, FAPS, FInstP
Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Theoretical physics, especially high energy physics.
Year of election: 1987
McLachlan, Elspeth Mary, DSc, FAA
Professor and Co-Director, Spinal Injuries Research Centre, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Speciality: Autonomic nervous system; consequences of peripheral nerve and spinal cord injury; neuroinflammation.
Year of election: 1997
McLeod, James Graham, AO, MD, DSc, FAA, FRACP, FRCP, FTSE
Emeritus Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney
Speciality: Clinical neuroscience.
Year of election: 1981
Melrose, Donald Blair, DPhil, FAA
Professor of Physics (Theoretical) and University Chair, School of Physics, University of Sydney
Website: www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~melrose
Speciality: Theoretical astrophysics; plasma physics; quantum electrodynamics.
Year of election: 1986
Mendelsohn, Frederick Arthur Oscar, AO, MD, PhD, FAA, FRACP
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Experimental physiology; neuropeptides; investigation of brain angiotensin system.
Year of election: 2003
Metcalf, Donald, AC, MD, Hon MD (Oslo), Hon DSc (Syd), FAA, FRACS, FRCPA, FRCPath, FRS
Professor, Division of Cancer and Haematology, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Molecular control of normal and leukaemic haemopoiesis.
Year of election: 1969
Milburn, Gerard James, DPhil, FAA
Professor and Deputy Director, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, University of Queensland
Speciality: Quantum optics; quantum information theory.
Year of election: 1999
Miller, Jacques Francis Albert Pierre, AC, DSc, Hon DSc (London), Hon MD (Syd), Hon FRCPA, FAA, FRS
Professor, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Self-tolerance; T and B cells; autoimmunity; cellular immunology.
Year of election: 1970
Millis, Nancy Fannie, AC, MBE, PhD, Hon DSc (Melb), Hon LLD (Melb), FAA, FTSE
Emeritus Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunolgy, University of Melbourne
Year of election: 2004
Mills, Bernard Yarnton, AC, DSc (Eng), FAA, FRS
Speciality: Radio astronomy.
Year of election: 1959
Moodie, Alexander Forbes, DSc, FAA
Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University
Speciality: Scattering theory; electron diffraction; electron microscopy.
Year of election: 1973
Moore, John B, PhD, FAA, FIEAust, FIEEE, FTSE
Website: users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~john
Speciality: Control systems; signal processing; communication systems; optimisation; vision systems.
Year of election: 1994
Moran, William, PhD, FAA
Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Number theory; representation theory; signal processing.
Year of election: 1984
Morrison, James Douglas, AO, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Mass spectrometry; molecular energetics.
Year of election: 1964
Morton, Donald Charles, PhD, FAA
Researcher Emeritus, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council, Canada
Speciality: Astrophysics; spectroscopy; atomic physics; instrumentation.
Year of election: 1984
Mould, Jeremy Richard, PhD, FAA
Speciality: Observational cosmology; stellar populations in galaxies; stellar evolution.
Year of election: 1998
Mulvaney, Paul, PhD, FAA, FRACI
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor, Bio21 Institute, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne
Website: www.nanoparticle.com
Speciality: Nanoscience and plasmonics: surface plasmon spectroscopy enabling the optical detection of electrons in metal nanostructures.
Year of election: 2009
Munns, Rana Ellen, PhD, FAA
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Plant Industry
Website: www.csiro.au/people/rana.munns
Speciality: Plant physiology; adaptions to drought and salinity.
Year of election: 2007
Myers, Rupert Horace, AO, KBE, PhD, Hon DEng (Newcastle), Hon DLitt (UNSW), Hon DSc (Wollongong), Hon LLD (Strathclyde), FAA, FTSE
Year of election: 1997
Neeman, Amnon, PhD, FAA
Professor, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University
Website: www.maths.anu.edu.au/~neeman
Speciality: Algebraic geometry; topology; K-theory.
Year of election: 2005
Newton, John Oswald, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Nuclear physics; environmental matters.
Year of election: 1975
Nichol, Lawrence Walter, DSc, FAA
Year of election: 1981
Nicola, Nicos Anthony, AO, PhD, FAA
Assistant Director and Head, Division of Cancer and Haematology, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Growth and differentiation factors for blood cells.
Year of election: 1996
Ninham, Barry William, PhD, DTechKth (Hon Causa) (Stockholm), FAA
Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Speciality: Colloid and surface chemistry; biophysics; new materials; chemical engineering; mathematical physics.
Year of election: 1978
Norrish, Keith, AO, PhD, Hon DSc (UWA), FAA
Consultant,
Speciality: X-ray spectrometry; clay and soil mineralogy and chemistry.
Year of election: 1977
Nossal, Gustav Joseph Victor, AC, CBE, MD, PhD, Hon DSc (ANU, La Trobe, McMaster, Mainz, Oxf, Qld, Syd, UNSW), Hon LLD (Melb, Monash), Hon MD (Leeds, Newcastle, UWA), Hon FRCOG, Hon FRSE, FAA, FANZAAS, FRACGP, FRACP, FRCP, FRCPA, FRCPath, FRS, FTSE
Professor Emeritus of the University of Melbourne, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Cellular Immunology; antibody formation and tolerance; vaccine research.
Year of election: 1967
Nugent, Keith Alexander, PhD, FAA
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Physics, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
Speciality: X-ray and optical physics.
Year of election: 2000
Ogilvie, Bridget Margaret, AC, DBE, PhD, ScD, FAA, FIBiol, FMedSc, FRCPath, FRS
c/o Medical School Administration, University College London, UK
Speciality: Experimental parasitology and immunology; science policy and funding.
Year of election: 2008
O'Reilly, Suzanne Yvette, PhD, FAA
Professor (Personal Chair) in Earth Sciences and Director, GEMOC National Key Centre,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
Website: www.es.mq.edu.au/GEMOC/Participants/AcademManag/SueOreilly.html
Speciality: Earth sciences.
Year of election: 2002
Orlowska, Maria Elzbieta, PhD, DSc (Qld), FAA
Secretary of State, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland
Website: www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dke
Speciality: Information systems; database, business, workflow process and management systems.
Year of election: 2003
Osborne, Michael Robert, PhD, FAA
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Centre for Mathematics and its Application,
Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Website: wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~mike
Speciality: Numerical analysis; mathematical programming; scientific computing.
Year of election: 1983
Osmond, Charles Barry, PhD, FAA, FRS, ML
Speciality: Environmental plant physiology; photosynthesis; photoinhibition.
Year of election: 1978
Paddon-Row, Michael, PhD, FAA
Emeritus Scientia Professor of Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, University of New South Wales
Speciality: Physical organic chemistry; computational quantum chemistry; synthesis.
Year of election: 1999
Paltridge, Garth William, DSc, FAA
Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania
Speciality: Fluid Earth sciences; climate and Antarctica.
Year of election: 1980
Parton, Robert Glenn, PhD, FAA
Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
Speciality: Cell biology: characterisation of novel proteins involved in plasma membrane organisation of mammalian cells.
Year of election: 2009
Passioura, John, PhD, FAA
Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO Plant Industry
Speciality: Environmental biology; water-limited agriculture.
Year of election: 1994
Pate, John Stewart, DSc, Hon DSc (UWA), FAA, FRS
Emeritus Professor, School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia
Speciality: Functioning of plants in testing environments; effects of woody plants on soil profiles.
Year of election: 1980
Paxinos, George, AO, Phd, DSc, Hon Dr (Athens), FAA
Professor (UNSW) and NHMRC Australia Fellow, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Speciality: Neuroscience: construction of brain and spinal cord atlases.
Year of election: 2009
Peacock, William James, AC, PhD, Hon DSc (Charles Sturt, Gent, UNSW), Hon DScAgr (Syd), FAA, FAIAST, FRS, FTSE
CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO
Speciality: Molecular plant science; genomics; gene technology; modern agriculture.
Year of election: 1976
Pearman, Graeme Ivan, AM, PhD, FAA, FRSV, FTSE
Director, Graeme Pearman Consulting Pty Ltd
Speciality: Composition of the global atmosphere and its relevance to climate; energy futures; science policy interface; developing-country science capacity building; human behaviour and institutions as factors of climate change.
Year of election: 1989
Pegg, David Thomas, PhD, FAA, Corr FRSE
Website: http://www.griffith.edu.au/science/centre-quantum-dynamics/staff/professor-david-pegg
Speciality: Theoretical physics; quantum mechanics; quantum optics.
Year of election: 1995
Pettigrew, John Douglas, MSc, FAA, FRS
Professor and Director, Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre, University of Queensland
Website: www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/jack.html
Speciality: Phylogeny; vertebrate sensory systems; neural development; neuroethology.
Year of election: 1987
Phan-Thien, Nhan, PhD, FAA
USA
Speciality: Viscoelasticity; modelling of complex-structured fluids.
Year of election: 1999
Pickett-Heaps, Jeremy David, PhD, FAA, FRS
Professorial Fellow, School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Website: www.cytographics.com
Speciality: Cell morphogenesis and division; video microscopy.
Year of election: 1992
Pittard, Alfred James, AM, PhD (Yale), DSc, Hon MD (Melb), FAA
Professor Emeritus, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Control of gene expression during transcription or translation.
Year of election: 1974
Porter, Robert, AC, DM, DSc, Hon DSc (Syd), FAA
Speciality: Neurophysiology; cerebral cortex; skilled movement; plasticity; safety and quality in health care.
Year of election: 1974
Poulos, Harry George, AM, DSc (Eng), FAA, FTSE
Senior Principal, Coffey Geotechnics Pty Ltd
Website: www.coffey.com.au
Speciality: Geotechnical engineering; earthquake engineering.
Year of election: 1988
Powell, Roger, PhD, FAA
Professorial Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
Website: www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/php/view_profile.php?id=powell
Speciality: Metamorphic geology.
Year of election: 2006
Praeger, Cheryl Elisabeth, AM, DSc, Dr Hon Caus (ULB), Hon DSc (Math) (Prince of Songkla), FAA
Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia
Website: www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~praeger
Speciality: Theory of groups; algebraic combinatorics.
Year of election: 1996
Quirk, James Patrick, AO, DSc, Hon DAgrSc (Louvain, Melb, Syd, UWA), FAA, FANZAAS, FTSE
Speciality: Soil physical chemistry; surface and colloid chemistry of clays and oxides; agricultural science.
Year of election: 1973
Radom, Leo, PhD, DSc, FAA, FRACI, FRSC
Professor, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
Website: www.chem.usyd.edu.au/research/radom.html
Speciality: Computational quantum chemistry.
Year of election: 1988
Ralph, John Theodore, AC, Hon LLD (Qld, Melb), Hon DUniv (ACU), FAA, FAICD, FAusIMM, FCPA, FTSE
Year of election: 2004
Ralston, John, AO, PhD, Dr hc (Abo Akademi), FAA, FTSE
Laureate Professor of Physical Chemistry and Minerals Processing, and Director, Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia
Website: www.unisa.edu.au/iwri/staffpages/johnralston.asp
Speciality: Physical chemistry; colloid and surface chemistry including mineral flotation processes, surface chemistry of metal sulphides and the static and dynamic wetting behaviour of solid surfaces.
Year of election: 2005
Randolph, Mark Felton, PhD, FAA, FREng, FTSE
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Civil Engineering, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, University of Western Australia
Website: www.cofs.uwa.edu.au
Speciality: Soil mechanics; geotechnical engineering; offshore engineering.
Year of election: 2000
Raupach, Michael Robin, PhD, FAA, FTSE
Research Scientist, Marine and Atmospheric Research, CSIRO
Speciality: Atmospheric thermodynamics: turbulent flow and transport in vegetation canopies; energy balances in heterogeneous landscapes.
Year of election: 2009
Reeves, Peter Richard, PhD, FAA
Professor of Microbiology, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, GO8, University of Sydney
Speciality: Molecular genetics; bacterial evolution; bacterial surface polysaccharides.
Year of election: 2000
Reid, Alan Forrest, AM, DSc, FAA, FTSE
Speciality: Inorganic chemistry; mineral processing; image analysis; environmental management.
Year of election: 1982
Renfree, Marilyn Bernice, DSc, FAA, FAIBiol
ARC Federation Fellow, Laureate Professor and Ian Potter Chair of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Reproductive physiology; developmental biology.
Year of election: 1997
Rintoul, Stephen Rich, PhD, FAA
CSIRO Fellow and Acting Chief, Marine and Atmospheric Research, CSIRO
Speciality: Oceanography; climate science.
Year of election: 2006
Ritchie, Ian Mackay, ScD (Camb), Dr honoris causa (Murdoch), FAA, FRACI, FTSE
Speciality: Hydrometallurgy; chemical education.
Year of election: 2001
Rizzardo, Ezio, PhD, FAA, FRACI, FTSE
CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies
Speciality: Polymer science.
Year of election: 2002
Robinson, Derek William, DPhil, FAA
Emeritus Professor, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications,
Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Speciality: Mathematical analysis; partial differential equations; evolution equations.
Year of election: 1980
Robson, Richard, DPhil, FAA
Professor, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Design, synthesis and characterisation of coordination nets.
Year of election: 2000
Rogers, Colin, DSc, FAA, FInstP
Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of New South Wales
Speciality: Invariance and its application in continuum mechanics and soliton theory.
Year of election: 1999
Rogers, Lesley Joy, DPhil, DSc, FAA
Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour, Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour, School of Science and Technology, University of New England
Speciality: Development and evolution of brain and behaviour, hemisphere specialisation.
Year of election: 2000
Rubinstein, Joachim Hyam, PhD, FAA
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Website: www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~rubin
Speciality: Theoretical maths; geometry and topology; minimal surfaces; shortest networks.
Year of election: 2003
Runnegar, Bruce Norman, DSc, FAA
Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, USA
Speciality: Palaeontology; astrobiology.
Year of election: 1987
Sambrook, Joseph Frank, PhD, FAA, FRS
Professor, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute
Speciality: Cancers; melanoma.
Year of election: 2000
Sara, Vicki Rubian, PhD, DOC (Karolinska Institute), Hon DSc (USQ), Hon DSc (VU), Hon DUniv (QUT), FAA, FTSE
Chancellor, University of Technology Sydney
Speciality: Endocrinology.
Year of election: 2001
Schmidt, Brian Paul, PhD, FAA, NAS
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University
Website: msowww.anu.edu.au/~brian/
Speciality: Cosmology; physics of supernovai and gamma ray bursts; 'Dark Energy'.
Year of election: 2008
Seneta, Eugene, PhD, FAA
Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, F07, University of Sydney
Website: www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/eseneta
Speciality: Probability and non-negative matrices; applications and history.
Year of election: 1985
Shine, John, AO, PhD, FAA
Executive Director, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, St Vincent's Hospital
Website: www.garvan.org.au
Speciality: Molecular genetics; molecular neurobiology.
Year of election: 1994
Shine, Richard, AM, PhD, DSc, FAA
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor in Evolutionary Biology (Personal Chair), School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
Website: www.bio.usyd.edu.au/Shinelab
Speciality: Evolution, ecology and reproductive biology of animals.
Year of election: 2003
Shortman, Kenneth Douglas, PhD, FAA
Professor and Laboratory Head, Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Lymphocyte and dendritic cell development and function.
Year of election: 1999
Shparlinski, Igor, PhD, FAA
Professor, Department of Computing, Division of Information and Communication Sciences, Macquarie University
Website: www.ics.mq.edu.au/~igor
Speciality: Number theory.
Year of election: 2006
Simmons, Leigh William, PhD, FAA
Professor and ARC Federation Fellow, Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia
Speciality: Evolutionary biology: sexual selection and life history evolution of vertebrates and invertebrates.
Year of election: 2009
Simmons, Michelle Yvonne, PhD, FAA
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, School of Physics, University of New South Wales
Website: www.qcaustralia.org/bio/staff_simmons.php
Speciality: Nanotechnology; quantum electronic devices; condensed matter physics.
Year of election: 2006
Simon, Leon, DPhil, FAA, FRS
Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics Department, Stanford University, USA
Speciality: Calculus of variations; partial differential equations.
Year of election: 1983
Simpson, Evan Rutherford, PhD, FAA
Professor, Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research
Website: http://www.princehenrys.org/sex_hormone_biology.htm
Speciality: Steroid hormone physiology.
Year of election: 2006
Simpson, Stephen James, PhD, FAA
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
Website: www.bio.usyd.edu.au/staff/simpson/simpson.htm
Speciality: Locust swarming, nutritional ecology, human obesity, nutrition and ageing.
Year of election: 2007
Slatyer, Ralph Owen, AC, DSc, Hon DSc (UWA, Qld, Duke, Charles Sturt, Newcastle, JCU), FAA, FRS, FTSE
Emeritus Professor, Research School of Biology, Australian National University
Website: www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/profiles/ralph_slatyer
Speciality: Environmental management; science policy; technological innovation.
Year of election: 1967
Sloan, Ian Hugh, AO, PhD, FAA
Scientia Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales
Website: www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~sloan
Speciality: Mathematical analysis of approximate methods.
Year of election: 1993
Smith, Frank Andrew, PhD, FAA
Emeritus Professor, Soil and Land Systems, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide
Website: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/andrew.smith
Speciality: Plant mineral nutrition; soil and rhizosphere biology; plant root symbiose; Australia-China links in research and research training.
Year of election: 1990
Smith, Sarah Elizabeth, PhD, FAA
Professor, Soil and Land Systems, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide
Speciality: Mycorrhizal symbioses between fungi and plant roots; rhizosphere and soil biology.
Year of election: 2001
Smyth, David Robert, PhD, FAA
Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Website: www.biolsci.monash.edu.au/staff/smyth.html
Speciality: Molecular genetics of flower development in Arabidopsis.
Year of election: 2004
Snyder, Allan Whitenack, DSc, FAA, FRS, FTSE
Director and 150th Anniversary Chair, Centre for the Mind, University of Sydney
Speciality: Nonlinear phenomena; mind physics; savant skills.
Year of election: 1985
Solomon, David Henry, AM, DSc, FAA, FIChemE, FRACI, FRS, FTSE
Professorial Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Polymer science; university-industry interaction.
Year of election: 1975
Speed, Terence Paul, PhD, FAA, FAAAS
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Statistics; statistics in genetics and molecular biology; bioinformatics.
Year of election: 2001
Sprent, John Frederick Adrian, CBE, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Ascaridoid nematodes and their host-relationships.
Year of election: 1964
Sprent, Jonathan, PhD, FAA, FRS
Professor, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Website: www.garvan.org.au/about-us/our-people/professor-jonathan-sprent
Speciality: Cellular immunology; transplantation immunity.
Year of election: 2006
Sridhar, Tamarapu, PhD, FAA, FIEAust, FIEChemE (UK), FTSE
Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor and Dean, Faculty of Engineering
Building 72, Monash University
Website: www.eng.monash.edu.au/chemeng/people/academics/asts.html
Speciality: Chemical engineering.
Year of election: 2002
Sullivan, Colin Edward, PhD, FAA, FRACP
Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, DO6, University of Sydney
Speciality: Respiratory medicine; sleep disorders; sleep apnea; medical technology.
Year of election: 1997
Summons, Roger Everett, PhD, FAA, FRS
Professor of Geobiology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Website: eaps.mit.edu/geobiology
Speciality: Biogeochemistry; organic geochemistry; astrobiology.
Year of election: 1998
Sutherland, Grant Robert, AC, DSc, FRCPA, FAA, FRS
Professor, Department of Genetic Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital
Speciality: Human genetics; human genome project; epilepsy; cytogenetics.
Year of election: 1997
Sutherland, Robert Lyndsay, PhD, Hon DSc (Lincoln), FAA
Director, Cancer Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Molecular and cellular biology of cancer.
Year of election: 2002
Swan, John Melvin, AO, PhD, DSc, Hon DSc (Monash), FAA, FANZAAS, FRACI, FTSE
Website: www.seagrass.com.au
Speciality: Organic chemistry; industrial chemistry; waterway and catchment management.
Year of election: 1968
Stalker, Raymond John, AO, PhD, Hon DEng (Qld), FAA, FAIAA, FIEAust, FTSE
Emeritus Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Queensland
Speciality: Hypervelocity aerodynamics; scramjets; technology policy.
Year of election: 1989
Stanley, Fiona Juliet, AC, MD, Hon DSc (Murdoch), Hon DUniv (QUT), Hon MD (Melb), Hon MD (Sydney), Hon FRACGP, Hon FRCPCH(UK), FAA, FAFPHM, FASSA, FFPHM, FRACP, FRANZCOG
Director, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Website: www.ichr.uwa.edu.au/people/fiona_stanley
Speciality: Perinatal epidemiology; child health.
Year of election: 2002
Stanton, Richard Limon, AO, PhD, FAA
Speciality: Metallic ore deposits; volcanic and metamorphic geochemistry.
Year of election: 1975
Stephenson, Dimitrie George, PhD, DSc, FAA
Emeritus Professor, Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University
Speciality: Muscle cell physiology; excitation-contraction coupling; regulation of muscle contraction.
Year of election: 1999
Sternhell, Sever, DSc, FAA, FRACI
Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
Website: www.chem.usyd.edu.au
Speciality: Organic chemistry; molecular engineering; NMR spectroscopy.
Year of election: 1992
Stokes, Robert Harold, DSc,FAA, FRACI, FRSC
Speciality: Solution thermodynamics; electrolytes.
Year of election: 1957
Stone, Jonathan, DSc, FAA
Professor of Retinal and Cerebral Neurobiology, University of Sydney, Save Sight Institute and School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney
Speciality: Developmental biology; degenerative disease of retina.
Year of election: 1984
Strasser, Andreas, PhD, FAA
Joint Head, Molecular Genetics of Cancer Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Speciality: Immunology; apoptosis; cell biology.
Year of election: 2003
Street, Robert, AO, DSc, Hon DSc (Sheffield, UWA), FAA
Speciality: Development and properties of magnetic materials.
Year of election: 1973
Tam, Patrick Ping Leung, PhD, FAA, FIBiol
Deputy Director and Head, Embryology Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute
Website: www.cmri.org.au/cmri.php?page=153
Speciality: Mammalian embryonic development.
Year of election: 2008
Tanner, Roger Ian, PhD, FAA, FRS, FTSE
P N Russell Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, J07, University of Sydney
Speciality: Rheology; mechanical engineering.
Year of election: 1979
Taylor, Stuart Ross, AC, PhD, DSc (Oxon), Hon FGS, Hon FRSNZ, FAA, NAS
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Speciality: Cosmochemistry; geochemistry; planetary science.
Year of election: 1978
Thomas, Anthony William, PhD, DSc, FAA, FInstP
Chief Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, USA
Website: www.jlab.org
Speciality: Nuclear and particle physics.
Year of election: 1990
Thompson, Colin John, PhD, FAA
Speciality: Mathematical modelling of complex industrial processes and financial markets.
Year of election: 1995
Tregear, Geoffrey William, AM, PhD, FAA, FRACI
Professor and Deputy Director, Florey Neuroscience Institutes
Website: www.florey.edu.au/about/management-and-staff/senior-management-and-admin-staff/geoffrey-tregear/
Speciality: Peptide synthesis; chemistry and biology of parathyroid hormone: relaxin family peptides.
Year of election: 2008
Trudinger, Neil Sidney, PhD, FAA, FRS
Professor, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Speciality: Nonlinear partial differential equations and applications.
Year of election: 1978
Truswell, Elizabeth Marchant, PhD, FAA
Speciality: Palynology; history of Australian and Antarctic vegetation; relationships between art and science.
Year of election: 1985
Tucker, Rodney Stuart, PhD, FAA, FIEAust, FTSE
Laureate Professor and Director, ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Speciality: Optical networks.
Year of election: 1998
Turner, John Stewart, PhD, FAA, FAIP, FInstP, FRS
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Speciality: Geophysical fluid dynamics; melting of ice in the Arctic Ocean; foam patches behind breaking waves.
Year of election: 1979
Tyerman, Stephen Donald, PhD, FAA
Professor and Discipline Head of Wine and Horticulture, School of Agriculture Food and Wine, University of Adelaide
Speciality: Plant physiology; plant membrane transport; viticulture.
Year of election: 2003
Tyndale-Biscoe, Cecil Hugh, PhD, Hon FRSNZ, FAA
Speciality: Marsupial biology.
Year of election: 1986
Underwood, Antony James, DSc, FAA
Professor of Experimental Ecology, Centre for Research on Ecological
Impacts of Coastal Cities, Marine Ecology Laboratories, A11, University of Sydney
Website: www.eicc.bio.usyd.edu.au
Speciality: Logic, design and analysis of ecological experiments.
Year of election: 1994
Veevers, John James, PhD, Hon FGSAm, FAA
Emeritus Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
Speciality: Earth history of Australia, Gondwanaland and Pangea.
Year of election: 1995
Vincent, Robert Alan, PhD, FAA, FAIP
Personal Chair and Head, Department of Physics, University of Adelaide
Website: www.chemphys.adelaide.edu.au/people/physics/rvince01.html
Speciality: Studies of atmospheric dynamics, structure and waves.
Year of election: 2004
von Caemmerer, Susanne, PhD, FAA, Mitgl. Leopoldina
Professor, Molecular Plant Physiology Group, Research School of Biology, Australian National University
Website: www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/Profiles/Susanne_von_Caemmerer
Speciality: Plant physiology and biochemistry; photosynthesis.
Year of election: 2006
von Itzstein, Mark, PhD, FAA, FRACI
ARC Federation Fellow, Professor and Director, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University
Website: www.gu.edu.au/centre/glycomics
Speciality: Biomolecular science; glycoscience.
Year of election: 2003
Wake, Robert Gerard, PhD, FAA
Emeritus Professor, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, G08, University of Sydney
Speciality: Bacterial cell division.
Year of election: 1985
Walker, Norman Alan, PhD, FAA
Visiting Professor, Department of Biophysics, School of Physics, University of New South Wales
Speciality: Transport in charophytes; in flowering plants; in ecosystems.
Year of election: 1982
Wall, Gordon Elliott, PhD, FAA
Speciality: Algebra; group theory.
Year of election: 1971
Wallace, Gordon George, PhD, FAA, FTSE
Professor and Executive Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong
Speciality: Electronic polymers.
Year of election: 2007
Wallace, Henry Robert, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Conservation; landcare; environment; natural history; national parks.
Year of election: 1975
Wand, Matthew Paul, PhD, FAA
Professor, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
Website: www.uow.edu.au/~mwand/
Speciality: Nonparemetric function estimation.
Year of election: 2008
Wang, Xu-Jia, PhD, FAA
Professor of Mathematics, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Speciality: Non-linear partial differential equations and applications: in particular geometry and optimal transportation.
Year of election: 2009
Warnaar, Sven Ole, PhD, FAA
Professor and Chair of Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland
Website: http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/~uqowarna/
Speciality: Solvable lattice models; special functions; q-series and algebraic combinatorics.
Year of election: 2008
Warren, John Robin, AC, MD, FAA, FRCPA, Nobel Laureate
Speciality: Clinical pathology: gastric disorders and Helicobacter pylori.
Year of election: 2006
Waterhouse, Peter Michael, PhD, FAA
Professor and ARC Federation Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
Speciality: Microbiology: gene silencing and virus resistance.
Year of election: 2009
Watts, Robert Oliver, PhD, FAA
Year of election: 1999
Weigold, Erich, PhD, AM, FAA, FAIP, FAPS, FTSE
Professor, Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratory, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Speciality: Atomic, molecular and condensed matter physics.
Year of election: 1986
Welsh, Alan Hepburn, PhD, FAA
Professor, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University
Speciality: Theoretical and applied statistics.
Year of election: 2007
Wentrup, Curt, PhD, DSc, FAA, FRACI
Professor of Organic Chemistry, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland
Website: www.chemistry.uq.edu.au/homepages/wentrup/researchinterests1.html
Speciality: Reactive intermediates; unusual molecules.
Year of election: 2000
White, Guy Kendall, AM, DPhil, Hon DSc (Wollongong), FAA
Speciality: Thermal properties of solids; cryogenics.
Year of election: 1970
White, John William, CMG, DPhil, FAA, FAIP, FRACI, FRS, FRSChem
Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Speciality: Self assembling systems; polymers and interfacial matter.
Year of election: 1991
Whitten, Maxwell John, AM, PhD, FAA, FAIBiol, FTSE
Speciality: Sustainable agriculture; plant and animal protection; small-scale farming in Asia; biodiversity; science policy and management.
Year of election: 1993
Whitten, Wesley Kingston, DSc (Sydney), Hon DSc (Memorial University, Newfoundland), FAA
Speciality: Physiology of reproduction; embryology; endocrinology (phytooestrogens); pheromones; bioethics.
Year of election: 1982
Wild, Stanley Bruce, PhD, FAA, FRACI, FRSC
Emeritus Professor, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Website: rsc.anu.edu.au/research/wild.php
Speciality: Inorganic chemistry.
Year of election: 2003
Williams, James Francis, DSc (ANU, UWA), FAA, FAIP, FInstP
Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MO13, University of Western Australia
Speciality: Atomic, molecular and surface physics.
Year of election: 1998
Williams, James Stanislaus, AM, PhD, FAA, FAIP, FAPS, FIEAust, FMRS, FTSE
Professor and Director, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Speciality: Materials engineering.
Year of election: 2003
Williams, Robyn, AM, BSc, Hon DSc (Syd, Deakin, Macq, UNSW), Hon LLD (ANU), FAA, FANZAAS
Producer, Science Unit, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Speciality: Popularisation; history; ethology.
Year of election: 1993
Williamson, Richard Edward, PhD, FAA
Professor, Plant Cell Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University
Website: www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/profiles/richard_williamson
Speciality: Plant cell biology: particularly plant cell wall and cellulose.
Year of election: 2001
Wintour-Coghlan, Elvie Marelyn, PhD, DSc, FAA
Honorary Professor, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University
Speciality: Developmental physiology, including kidney and adrenal function; control of foetal fluid and electrolyte balance including aquaporins; early life origins of adult health and disease.
Year of election: 2004
Wiseman, Howard Mark, PhD, FAA
Professor, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University
Website: www.cit.gu.edu.au/~s285238/
Speciality: Quantum measurement; control theory.
Year of election: 2008
Wiskich, Joseph Tony, PhD, FAA
Speciality: Plant respiration; photorespiration; bioenergetics.
Year of election: 1994
Withers, Raymond Leslie, PhD, FAA
Professor, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Speciality: Solid state chemistry: application of electron microscopy to solving the statics and dynamics of complex structures.
Year of election: 2009
Womersley, Hugh Bryan Spencer, DSc, FAA
Speciality: Marine plant biology of southern Australia.
Year of election: 1977
Woodall, Roy, AO, MSc, Hon DSc, FAA, FTSE
Speciality: Earth sciences.
Year of election: 1988
Zillman, John William, AO, PhD, Hon DSc (Monash), FAA, FAIP, FTSE
Bureau of Meteorology
Speciality: Meteorology; science and technology policy.
Year of election: 2006
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