FELLOWS ELECTED IN 2009
Professor Marilyn Crowl Ball FAA
Head, Ecosystem Dynamics, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200
Phone: 02 6215 5057; Fax: 02 6125 5095; Email: marilyn.ball@anu.edu.au
Speciality: plant physiology: stress tolerance in plants and their ability to function in complex, highly variable environments.
Professor John Philip Carter AM FAA FIEAust FTSE
Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Newcastle NSW 2308
Phone: 02 4921 6025; Fax: 02 4921 7062; Email: john.carter@newcastle.edu.au
Speciality: computational and experimental geomechanics: prediction of the behaviour of geotechnical structures.
Professor Frank Caruso FAA
Director, Centre for Nano Science and Nanotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010
Phone: 03 8344 3461; Fax: 03 8344 4153; Email: fcaruso@unimelb.edu.au
Speciality: nanoengineering of surface structures through polymer self-assembly.
Professor Kong-Hong Andy Choo FAA
Professor, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville VIC 3052
Phone: 03 8341 6306; Fax: 03 9348 1391; Email: andy.choo@mcri.edu.au
Speciality: human molecular genetics: chromosome stability and replication in the development of vectors for gene therapy.
Professor Warrick John Couch FAA
ARC Professorial Fellow, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn VIC 3122
Phone: 03 9214 4712; Fax: 03 9214 8797; Email: wcouch@swin.edu.au
Speciality: galaxy evolution and cosmology: discovery of the accelerating universe.
Professor Hugh Francis Durrant-Whyte FAA FTSE
Professor of Mechatronic Engineering, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006
Phone: 02 9351 5583; Fax: 02 9351 7060; Email: hugh@acfr.usyd.edu.au
Speciality: autonomous vehicle navigation and sensor data fusion.
Professor Charles Reay Mackay FAA
Director, Immunology and Inflammation Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Phone: 02 9295 8405; Fax: 02 9295 8404; Email: c.mackay@garvan.org.au
Speciality: immunology: chemoattractant receptors and inflammatory therapy.
Professor Paul Mulvaney FAA FRACI
ARC Federation Fellow, Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne, 30 Flemington Road, Parkville VIC 3010
Phone: 03 8344 2420; Fax: 03 8344 2420; Email: mulvaney@unimelb.edu.au
Speciality: nanoscience and plasmonics: surface plasmon spectroscopy enabling the optical detection of electrons in metal nanostructures.
Professor Robert Glenn Parton FAA
Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, QLD 4072
Phone: 07 3346 2032; Fax: 07 3346 2339; Email: r.parton@imb.uq.edu.au
Speciality: molecular cell biology: characterisation of novel proteins involved in plasma membrane organisation of mammalian cells.
Professor George Paxinos AO FAA
Professor, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Barker Street, Randwick NSW 2031
Phone: 02 9382 7943; Fax: 02 9382 2722; Email: g.paxinos@unsw.edu.au
Speciality: neuroscience: construction of brain and spinal cord atlases.
Dr Michael Robin Raupach FAA FTSE
Research Scientist, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, GPO Box 3023, Canberra ACT 2601
Phone: 02 6246 5573; Fax: 02 6246 5988; Email: michael.raupach@csiro.au
Speciality: atmospheric thermodynamics: turbulent flow, transport and energy balances over heterogeneous landscapes.
Professor Leigh William Simmons FAA
ARC Federation Fellow, Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley WA 6009
Phone: 08 6488 2221; Fax: 08 6488 1029; Email: lsimmons@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Speciality: evolutionary biology: theoretical models of sexual selection and life history evolution of vertebrates and invertebrates.
Professor Xu-Jia Wang FAA
Professor of Mathematics, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200
Phone: 02 6125 8968; Fax: 02 6125 5549; Email: wang@maths.anu.edu.au
Speciality: non-linear partial differential equations and applications, including geometry and optimal transportation.
Professor Peter Michael Waterhouse FAA
ARC Federation Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Phone: 02 9114 0745; Fax: 02 9351 4771; Email: peter.waterhouse@usyd.edu.au
Speciality: plant molecular biology: gene silencing and virus resistance.
Professor Mark Westoby FAA
Professor, School of Biological Studies, Macquarie University, NSW 2109
Phone: 02 9850 8196; Fax: 02 9850 9354; Email: mark.westoby@mq.edu.au
Speciality: ecology and evolution: mapping and modelling of key ecological traits in plant species.
Professor Raymond Leslie Withers FAA
Professor, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200
Phone: 02 6125 3714; Fax: 02 6125 0750; Email: withers@rsc.anu.edu.au
Speciality: solid state chemistry: application of electron microscopy to solving the statics and dynamics of complex structures.
