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SCIENCE ACADEMY ELECTS 16 NEW MEMBERS
27 March 2003

Sixteen of Australia's leading scientists were honored on 27 March by election to the Australian Academy of Science.

The sixteen new Fellows will join the 338 Fellows of the Academy. Each year, the Academy elects sixteen new Fellows, with election to Fellowship recognising a career that has significantly advanced the world's scientific knowledge.

The new Fellows are:

Professor Perry Bartlett
Professor (Foundation Chair) of Molecular Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland
Telephone: 07 3346 9562
Email: p.bartlett@uq.edu.au
Field: Molecular neuroscience: Stem cell research and the brain's capacity for repair and plasticity.

Professor Robert Bilger
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Aerospace Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney
Telephone: 02 9351 2928
Email: bilger@aeromech.usyd.edu.au
Website: www.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/people/bilger.html
Field: Mechanical engineering: Turbulent reacting flows, pollutant formation, greenhouse gas mitigation, energy and environmental engineering.

Professor Rossiter Crozier
Professor (Personal Chair), School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Queensland
Telephone: 07 4781 5734
Email: ross.crozier@jcu.edu.au
Website: www.jcu.edu.au/school/tbiol/zoology/staff/crozier.htm
Field: Tropical biology: Evolutionary biologist with specific interest in molecular evolution, molecular phylogeny of insects, birds and mammals and sociobiology.

Professor Peter Drummond
Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Queensland
Telephone: 07 3365 3404
Email: drummond@physics.uq.edu.au
Field: Physics: Quantum theory, theory of solitons, computational physics, physics of communication and information, laser physics.

Professor David Groves
Professor (Personal Chair) of Geology and Director, Centre for Global Metallogeny, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Western Australia
Telephone: 08 9380 2773; 08 9380 1241
Email: dgroves@geol.uwa.edu.au
Field: Solid Earth sciences: Temporal and tectonic evolution of mineral deposits, with emphasis on orogenic gold deposits, tectonic evolution and metallogeny of Precambrian granitoid-greenstone belts, mineral resource assessment using databases and geographic information systems.

Professor Michael Hynes
Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne
Telephone: 03 8344 6239 / 5140
Email: mjhynes@unimelb.edu.au
Website: www.genetics.unimelb.edu.au/person/academics/mjh.html
Field: Fungal genetics: Eukaryotic gene regulation by the study of catabolic pathways in filamentous fungi.

Professor Frederick Mendelsohn
Director, Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne
Telephone: 03 8344 7333
Email: f.mendelsohn@hfi.unimelb.edu.au
Field: Experimental physiology: Investigation of the brain angiotensin system.

Professor Maria Orlowska
Professor of Information Systems, Head of Information Systems Division and Deputy Head, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland
Telephone: 07 3365 2989
Email: maria@itee.uq.edu.au
Website: www.itee.uq.edu.au/people/_staffResults.php?id=maria
Field: Information systems: Workflow technology, e-business collaboration, business process modelling and verification, high performance OLTP systems, transaction processing and distributed/integrated databases.

Professor Hyam Rubinstein
Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Telephone: 03 8344 5550
Email: joachim@unimelb.edu.au
Website: www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~rubin
Field: Theoretical maths: Low dimensional topology, minimal surfaces (combinatorial and smooth), shortest network design.

Professor Richard Shine
Professor in Evolutionary Biology (Personal Chair), University of Sydney
Telephone: 02 9351 3772
Email: rics@bio.usyd.edu.au
Website: www.bio.usyd.edu.au/SOBS/ADMIN/STAFF/shine.htm
Field: Evolutionary biology: Interface between evolution and ecology, reptilian ecology and evolution, population ecology and reproductive biology.

Dr Andreas Strasser
Principal Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
Telephone: 03 9345 2624
Email: strasser@wehi.edu.au
Field: Immunology: Apoptosis, the cell death program essential for development and homeostasis.

Professor Stephen Tyerman
Professor and Head of Discipline of Viticulture, Department of Horticulture, Viticulture and Oenology, University of Adelaide
Telephone: 08 8303 6663
Email: stephen.tyerman@adelaide.edu.au
Field: Plant biology: Plant membrane transport.

Dr David Vaux
Principal Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
Telephone: 03 9345 2544
Email: vaux@wehi.edu.au
Field: Molecular immunology: Cellular apoptotic regulators.

Professor Mark von Itzstein
Professor and Director, Centre for Biomolecular Science and Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Queensland
Telephone: 07 5552 7025
Email: M.vonItzstein@griffith.edu.au
Field: Biomolecular science: Biology and chemistry of carbohydrates, rational drug design, enzymes in organic synthesis, enzymes mechanisms, new synthetic methods, organic synthesis, biochemistry of carbohydrate recognising proteins.

Professor Bruce Wild
Professor, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra
Telephone: 02 6125 4236
Email: bruce.wild@anu.edu.au
Field: Inorganic chemistry: The design and synthesis of chiral phosphines and arsines for use as auxiliaries for asymmetric synthesis and as probes of inorganic stereochemistry.

Professor James Williams
Professor and Director, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra
Telephone: 02 6125 2476
Email: director.RSPSE@anu.edu.au
Field: Materials engineering: Semiconductors, use of ion-beam methods to characterise and modify materials.

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