Sectional Committees

Overview

Committees comprised of Fellows established to advise Council regarding the qualifications of candidates for election to the Academy. The Sectional Committees cover broad subject areas, currently as follows:

Sectional Committee 1
Mathematical Sciences
Professor A H Welsh12 (Chair)
Professor R P Brent14
Professor M G Eastwood12
Professor N Joshi13
Professor C E Praeger14
Professor Ole Warnaar13

Sectional Committee 3
Chemistry
Professor D R MacFarlane12 (Chair)
Professor M G Banwell13
Professor F Caruso13
Professor J R Reimers14
Professor G W Tregear12
Dr R O Watts12

Sectional Committee 5
Applied Physical and Engineering Sciences
Professor S W Sloan12 (Chair)
Professor J P Carter13
Professor R W Boswell14
Professor J S Williams14
Professor P Mulvaney13

Sectional Committee 7
Animal Sciences
Professor R P Harvey 12 (Chair)
Professor J A Angus12
Professor P F Bartlett14
Professor E M McLachlan14
Professor D G Stephenson13
Professor P P L Tam13
Professor E Simpson14

Sectional Committee 9
Agriculture, Veterinary Science and Applied Biology
Professor J Passioura12(13) (Chair)
Professor J J Burdon12
Professor M Frommer14
Professor I D Hume14
Dr O Mayo14
Professor P M Visscher14
Dr M J Whitten14

Sectional Committee 11
Information, Communication and Quantum Information Sciences
Professor E Weigold13 (Chair)
Professor H Durrant-Whyte13
Professor R Hartley13
Professor D J Hill12
Professor Y Kivshar14
Professor I Shparlinski12
Professor H M Wiseman13

Sectional Committee 13
Immunology and Microbiology
Professor P Reeves14 (Chair)
Professor N Millis13
Professor A J Pittard14
Professor W R Heath14
Professor J Sprent14
Dr A Strasser13

Sectional Committee 2
Physics and Astronomy
Professor D B Melrose12 (Chair)
Professor V V Bazhanov14
Professor P D Drummond13
Professor K A Nugent14
Professor E M Sadler14
Professor R A Vincent12
Professor R R Volkas14

Sectional Committee 4
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Professor B W Chappell12 (Chair)
Dr J J Finnigan12
Professor H S O’Neill12
Dr M R Raupach14
Professor M R Walter12
Mr R Woodall13

Sectional Committee 6
Plant Sciences
Professor M R Badger13 (Chair)
Professor A Bacic12
Professor A E Clarke13
Professor J G Ellis12
Professor S E Smith14
Professor R E Williamson14

Sectional Committee 8
Molecular and Cell Biology
Professor A R Dunn12 (Chair)
Professor P M Waterhouse14
Professor P A Koopman12
Professor M W Parker14
Professor R G Parton13
Professor V R Sara12
Professor A F Cowman14
Professor G R Sutherland14

Sectional Committee 10
Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Evolutionary Biology
Professor M C Ball13 (Chair)
Professor T P Hughes14
Professor B H Kay12
Professor D B Lindenmayer12
Professor M Westoby14
Professor L W Simmons13

Sectional Committee 12
Medicine and Public Health
Professor S F Berkovic13 (Chair)
Professor M D Coltheart14
Professor C R Mackay14
Professor C L Masters13
Professor J P Chalmers14
Professor J H Campbell14

12 To retire from Committee after 2012 Sectional Committee Meeting
13 To retire from Committee after 2013 Sectional Committee Meeting
14 To retire from Committee after 2014 Sectional Committee Meeting