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SCIENCE ACADEMY ELECTS 16 NEW MEMBERS
2 April 2002

Sixteen of Australia's leading scientists, four of them women, were honoured on 28 March by election to the Australian Academy of Science.

The sixteen new Fellows will join the existing 326 Fellows of the Academy. Sixteen new Fellows are elected each year, with election to Fellowship recognising a career that has significantly advanced the world's scientific knowledge.

The new Fellows are:

Dr Michael Archer
Director, Australian Museum
Telephone: 02 9320 6157
Email:  mikea@austmus.gov.au
Field: Evolutionary history of Australian marsupials and monotremes

Dr Murray Esler
Associate Director, Baker Medical Research Institute, Melbourne
Telephone: 03 8532 1338
Email: murray.esler@baker.edu.au
Field: Academic cardiologist

Professor Robin Evans
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Telephone: 03 8344 6699 or 03 8344 7208
Email: robevans@ee.mu.oz.au
Field: Control systems and signal processing

Professor Christopher Goodnow
Director of Medical Genome Centre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Telephone: 02 6125 3621
Email: Chris.Goodnow@anu.edu.au
Field: Immunology

Professor Robert Graham
Executive Director, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Telephone: 02 9295 8502
Email: b.graham@victorchang.unsw.edu
Field: Molecular cardiology

Professor Anthony Guttmann
Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Telephone: 03 8344 5550
Email: tonyg@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Field: Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics

Dr John Hutchinson
Department of Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University
Telephone: 02 02 67125 4042
Email: John.Hutchinson@anu.edu.au
Field: Mathematics

Dr John Jacobsen
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra
Telephone: 02 6246 5464
Email: John.Jacobsen@pi.csiro.au
Field: Plant physiology/molecular biology

Dr Yuri Kivshar
Nonlinear Physics Group, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University
Telephone: 02 6125 3081
Email: ysk124@rsphysse.anu.edu.au
Field: Nonlinear optics and photonics

Professor Pauline Ladiges
School of Botany, The University of Melbourne
Telephone: 03 8344 5049
Email: p.ladiges@unimelb.edu.au
Field:  Systematics, biography and ecology of Australian plants

Scientia Professor Eugenie Lumbers
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales
Telephone: 0416 154106 or   02 9385 1056
Email: E.Lumbers@unsw.edu.au
Field: Developmental physiology

Professor Suzanne O'Reilly
Geochemical Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
Telephone: 02 9850 8362
Email: sue.oreilly@mq.edu.au
Field: Earth sciences

Dr Ezio Rizzardo
Team Leader, CSIRO Molecular Science, Program Leader, CRC for Polymers, CSIRO Molecular Science, Melbourne
Telephone: 03 9545 2500
Email: ezio.rizzardo@csiro.au
Field: Polymer science

Professor Tamarapu Sridhar
Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University
Telephone: 03 9905 3450
Email: Tam.Sridhar@eng.monash.edu.au
Field: Chemical engineering

Professor Fiona Stanley
Director, TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and Professor of Paediatrics, University of Western Australia
Telephone: 08 9489 7968
Email: Fiona@ichr.uwa.edu.au
Field: Perinatal epidemiology and child health

Professor Robert Sutherland
Senior Principal Research Fellow, Cancer Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney
Telephone: 02 9295 8322
Email: r.sutherland@garvan.org.au
Field: Molecular and cellular biology