Changes to the Academy Council

Retiring members of the Academy’s Council have been honoured and new members appointed, following the Australian Academy of Science’s Annual General Meeting today.

Leading physicist and academic Professor C Jagadish has retired as the Academy’s Secretary Physical Sciences and Deputy President; materials scientist Professor Jim Williams has stepped into the role.

Other retiring Council members are ordinary members in the physical sciences, Professor Bob Vincent, and Professor Brain Schmidt and ordinary member of the biological sciences, Professor Peter Koopman.

Replacing them will be Professor Sam Berkovic (biological sciences), and physical scientists Professor Elaine Sadler, Professor Scott Sloan and Dr Steve Rintoul.

Academy President Professor Andrew Holmes welcomed the new members and thanked those retiring for their service to the Academy.