Professor Martin Banwell
Professor of Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra
Studies in synthetic organic chemistry inspired by biologically active natural products

Professor Robert Bartnik
Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canberra
Mathematics and the Einstein equations

Dr Matthew Colless
Director, Anglo-Australian Observatory, Epping, Sydney
Surveying the universe

Professor Chris Easton
Professor of Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra
Academic and practical aspects of manipulating chemical reactions

Professor Peter Forrester
Professor and ARC Professorial Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Prime numbers and random matrices

Professor Paul Haddad
Professor of Chemistry and Deputy Head, School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania
Analytical separation science of small ions

Professor Rao Kotagiri
Professor of Computer Science and Head of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne
Mining interesting patterns from large data sets and their use in building efficient classifiers

Professor Malcolm McCulloch
Professor, Environmental Geochemistry and Geochronology, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
Corals: The silent sentinels of environmental change in the Great Barrier Reef

Professor Robert Vincent
Personal Chair in Physics, University of Adelaide
Radar studies of atmospheric waves

Professor Malcolm Walter
Director, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney
Earliest life on Earth

Professor Robert Baxter
Director, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
The Yin and Yang of growth regulation

Professor David Cook
Professor of Cell Physiology, Epithelial Transport Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Sydney
Epithelial sodium channels – what do they do and how are they regulated?

Professor Ian Frazer
Director, Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research, University of Queensland
Preventing cervical cancer: the immunologist's role

Dr T J Higgins
Deputy Chief, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra
Gene technology to enhance plant protein quality

Professor Richard Hobbs
Professor of Environmental Science and Deputy Head, School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Perth
Repairing damaged ecosystems

Professor Ary Hoffmann
Professor of Genetics and Director, ARC Special Research Centre (Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptive Research – CESAR), La Trobe University, Melbourne
Scientific contributions to understanding how natural populations evolve in response to environmental change

Professor David Smyth
Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne
How floral organs learn their fate

Professor E Marelyn Wintour-Coghlan
NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne
Life before birth – how it may influence health ever after