Professor Rao is one of the foremost world leaders in the area of solid state and materials chemistry. Rao is considered by many to be one of the founders of materials chemistry and he has contributed widely to the subject for more than five decades. The areas to which he has contributed are transition metal oxides, superconductivity, Colossal magnetoresistance, multiferroics, nanocarbons and their analogues, specially nanotubes and layered materials. Rao is an undisputed leader of science in India and has been a driving force for India-Australia cooperation in science. Rao played a leading role that led to the establishment in 2006 of Australia’s largest bilateral science and research fund, the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund, to foster a long-term scientific and technology partnership.

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H. Vincent Poor is recognised worldwide for his landmark and prolific contributions to Information and Communication Technologies, and to their underlying scientific bases. He has made broad and prolific contributions to these fields over a period of four decades and has played a leadership role in pushing the frontiers of wireless communication networks by establishing fundamentals underlying existing, emerging, and evolving generations of such networks. His connections with Australian science are long-standing and deep, spanning more than three decades and involving collaborations with colleagues at many of Australia’s leading research institutions.

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Professor Sir Ronald Oxburgh is a leading scientist and director of scientific research in Britain. He is an earth scientist who has made significant contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of the Earth. He has developed a broad discipline based approach to earth science research with contributions in geology, geochemistry and geophysics. Few have been able to match his command of the subject. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1978. Oxburgh was appointed Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology in the University of Cambridge in 1978 where he succeeded in transforming their earth science education and research. He was responsible for a major reform of earth science research in the UK through his review of the discipline for the Research Council. In 1988 he was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence in which position he was the effective Chief Scientist in Britain. In 1993 he became Rector of Imperial College. Professor Oxburgh's association with Australia goes back to his many scientific contributions that have influenced the directions of research in Australian Universities and the Australian National University in particular.

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Professor May is an Australian who spent most of the earlier part of his career in the Physics Department at Sydney University, gaining one of two Personal Chairs awarded by the university at age 33. His subsequent interests in the dynamics of animal populations, pursued at Princeton University and more recently as Royal Society Research Professor jointly at Oxford University and Imperial College London, have led to major contributions to the science of ecology, including seminal contributions to the emerging discipline of "chaos". His fundamental research achievements and more general contributions as inspiring lecturer and educator have been widely recognised by many international awards, elections to learned societies, and honorary degrees.

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Raghunath Mashelkar has made path-breaking contributions in stimuli responsive polymers, modelling of polymerisation reactors, engineering analysis of non-Newtonian flows and in supamolecular therapeutics. Mashelkar was previously President of the Indian National Science Academy and the Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK). The transformation of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), under Mashelkar’s exceptional leadership as Director General, has been heralded as one of the ten most significant achievements of Indian science and technology in the twentieth century. Mashelkar has been a dominant force in shaping the direction of science and technology policies in India and has promoted worldwide the idea of inclusive innovation based on the concept of `more from less for more people’. Mashelkar’s connections with Australian science include his active involvement in creating India-Australia education, research and innovation bridges through Monash University, Swinburne, RMIT and the Australia-India Institute. Mashelkar has also supported the creation of the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF), Australia’s largest fund dedicated to bilateral research. Mashelkar also contributed to the establishment in 2008 of the IITB-Monash Research Academy, a joint venture, graduate research school, located in Mumbai, India. Mashelkar has been Vice-Chair and then Chair of the Academy’s Council since 2009. He has also been the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Professor at Monash University since 2007. Mashelkar is also National Research Professor and President of Global Research Alliance, a global network of RTOs with over 60,000 scientists. He has received 37 honorary doctorates and many prestigious awards and prizes from around the world including, the Business Week (USA) ‘Stars of Asia’ award in 2005.

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David Buckingham is an Australian, who is distinguished as a physical and theoretical chemist. He has made seminal contributions to our knowledge of optical, electric and magnetic properties of molecules, intermolecular forces and chirality, and is a world leader in these areas. He invented and implemented a method of measuring molecular quadrupole moments. He made the first observations of differential Raman scattering of circularly polarized light by chiral molecules. He currently works on chirality in NMR spectroscopy and on hydrogen bonding. He has had continuing strong connections with his native Australia, through a stream of Australian research students and postdoctoral associates as well as through frequent scientific visits.

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Dr Stephen Rintoul has become the pre-eminent authority on the circulation of the Southern Ocean and its pivotal role in the global climate system. He has caused a paradigm shift in oceanography by demonstrating that the ocean’s vertical overturning circulation is closed by water mass transformations in the Southern Ocean, in contrast to the long-standing view that the overturning is driven by wide-spread interior mixing. His pioneering work on the transport and dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the formation of water masses, and his inspirational scientific leadership have had a profound impact on the field and earned him an outstanding international reputation.

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Distinguished for his work on the constitution of the earth's mantle and on the early chemical evolution of the earth, meteorites and the inner planets. He showed experimentally that olivines and pyroxenes transform to spinel and ilmenite structures at high pressures, and produced a model of the mantle soundly based on experiment and which accounts for the seismic observations. He has investigated the chemical processes involved in the formation of planetary bodies by accretion from a gas-dust cloud and emphasised the importance of oxidation­reduction equilibria in them. This led to his prediction of the occurrence of considerable metallic silicon in the Earth's core and to the suggestion that a body formed in this way would pass through a molten stage.

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