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 R P Brent14 (Chair)
Professor C E Praeger14
Professor M P Wand15
Professor X Wang15
Professor Ole Warnaar13
Sectional Committee 3
Chemistry
Professor M G Banwell 14 (Chair)
Professor A M Bond15
Professor F Caruso13
Professor J R Reimers14
Professor A J Canty15
Professor Peter Colman15
Sectional Committee 5
Applied Physical and Engineering Sciences
Professor J P Carter13(14) (Chair)
Professor R W Boswell14
Professor P Mulvaney13
Professor R I Tanner14
Professor J S Williams14
Professor A Yu15
Sectional Committee 7
Animal Sciences
Professor E Lumbers14 (Chair)
Professor R J Aitken15
Professor DM de Kretser15
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
Dr J Passioura(13) (Chair)
Dr 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 Y Kivshar14
Professor T Kotagiri15
Professor R Hartley13
Professor I R Petersen15
Professor H M Wiseman13
Sectional Committee 13
Immunology and Microbiology
Professor P Reeves14 (Chair)
Professor S Kjelleberg15
Professor A J Pittard14
Professor W R Heath14
Professor J Sprent14
Dr A Strasser13
Sectional Committee 2
Physics and Astronomy
Professor E M Sadler14 (Chair)
Professor V V Bazhanov14
Professor WJ Couch15
Professor M Dasgupta15
Professor P D Drummond13
Professor K A Nugent14
Professor ME Tobar15
Professor R R Volkas14
Sectional Committee 4
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Professor H S O’Neill 14 (Chair)
Professor A R Chivas14
Professor R W Griffiths14
Professor TJ McDougall15
Professor G E Williams15
Mr R Woodall13
Sectional Committee 6
Plant Sciences
Professor M R Badger13 (Chair)
Professor M A Anderson15
Professor A E Clarke13
Professor S E Smith14
Professor S D Tyerman15
Professor R E Williamson14
Sectional Committee 8
Molecular and Cell Biology
Professor A Cowman14 (Chair)
Professor J S Mattick15
Professor M W Parker14
Professor R G Parton13
Professor G R Sutherland14
Professor P M Waterhouse14
Sectional Committee 10
Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Evolutionary Biology
Professor M C Ball13 (Chair)
Professor M W Blows15
Professor A Cockburn 14
Professor S L O’Neill15
Professor L W Simmons13
Professor M Westoby14
Sectional Committee 12
Medicine and Public Health
Professor S F Berkovic13 (Chair)
Professor J H Campbell13
Professor J P Chalmers14
Professor M D Coltheart15
Professor C R Mackay14
Professor C L Masters13
Corresponding Members and Special Election Committee
Professor W J Peacock14 (Chair)
Professor B D O Anderson14
Professor R H Frater13
Professor G J V Nossal13
Professor J McKenzie13
Professor S Y O’Reilly14
13 To retire from Committee after 2013 Sectional Committee Meeting
14 To retire from Committee after 2014 Sectional Committee Meeting
15 To retire from Committee after 2015 Sectional Committee Meeting


