Professor

Joe Monaghan

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Joe Monaghan
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Monaghan is internationally distinguished for his development of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). This computational technique is ideal for handling gravitating gas-dynamical systems, and has had an enormous influence on contemporary computational astrophysics, particularly in the vast cosmological simulations that illuminate the evolution of the universe. The technique has many applications outside astrophysics, and Monaghan’s own work is distinguished by its breadth of application to astrophysical, geophysical and engineering problems. Monaghan’s SPH technique is so important that there is a series of annual international meetings specifically on the subject of SPH and its applications.

Expertise type

  • Astrophysics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geosciences
  • Mathematics

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Professor

Alex Molev

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Alex Molev
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Alexander Molev is a pure mathematician who has made substantial research contributions to algebra, representation theory, algebraic combinatorics and mathematical physics. He is a world-leading expert on ‘Yangians’, a particular class of quantum groups that he has used to solve longstanding open problems. Alexander’s book Yangians and Classical Lie Algebras’ is widely viewed as the definitive monograph in the field. In 2001, he was awarded the prestigious AustMS Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society for his work in representation theory.

Fields of research

49 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  • 4902 MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
    • 490201 Algebraic Structures in Mathematical Physics
  • 4904 PURE MATHEMATICS
    • 490401 Algebra and Number Theory

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Representation Theory
  • Mathematics
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Algebraic Combinatorics

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Professor

Chris Mitchell

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Chris Mitchell
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Professor Christina Mitchell has made fundamental discoveries in biochemistry in the field of intracellular signalling by characterising families of signal regulating enzymes, including the inositol-polyphosphate 5-phosphatases, and 4-phosphatases (INPP4A and B). Her laboratory demonstrated the regulation of phosphoinositide signalling by these enzymes, showing their intracellular location and revealing the substrate specificity of phosphoinositide phosphatases. Her group determined the 5-phosphatase catalytic domain that enabled identification of all ten 5-phosphatase family members and demonstrated their cellular roles in development, cell proliferation and cytoskeletal dynamics. Professor Mitchell has made substantive contributions to research leadership, building research excellence, and mentoring early career and women researchers.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310111 Signal Transduction

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Muscle Cell Physiology
  • Breast Cancer
  • Medical Sciences
  • Signalling Pathways

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Professor

Bernie Mills

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Bernie Mills
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Important contributions to radio astronomy, particularly to the subject of the discrete sources ("radio stars"). Obtained first observations and later confirmed that the discrete sources are of more than stellar dimensions. Gave first evidence that the discrete sources fall into two classes, now recognised as galactic and extra-galactic respectively. Developed various new techniques including a form of pencil-beam radio telescope ("Mills Cross") permitting very great apertures, e.g. 1500 feet in current model, and consequent high resolving power. Also worked during war years on radar development and subsequently applied radar techniques to make million-volt X-ray generator.

Expertise type

  • Physics
  • Radioastronomy
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

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Memoir

Bernard Yarnton Mills 1920–2011

Bernie Mills is remembered globally as an influential pioneer in radio astronomy who invented the Mills Cross Telescope.
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Professor

Harvey Millar

FAA

Harvey Millar
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Andrew Millar has discovered key biochemical mechanisms through which plant respiration is adapted to cellular processes and harsh climates. He has identified how damage by lipid, oxygen and nitrogen radicals lower the efficiency of respiration. He has discovered how vitamin production is linked to respiration and how mitochondria signal their metabolic state to change plant defence gene expression. Millar has shown that the mitochondrial proteome response to plant stress involves specific and sequential changes in protein complex assembly, regulation of enzymes and selective chemical damage. His discoveries underpin our understanding of respiratory damage during plant cell ageing and disease.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3108 PLANT BIOLOGY
    • 310803 Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
    • 310806 Plant Physiology
34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3404 MEDICINAL AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
    • 340407 Proteins and Peptides

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Protein Regulation
  • Biochemistry
  • Cellular Metabolism
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Cell Biology
  • Mitochondrial Function
  • Peptides
  • Stable Isotopes
  • Protein Complexes
  • Respiration

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Conversation with scientist

Dr Harvey Millar, biochemist

Dr Harvey Millar interviewed by Ms Marian Heard in 2001. Dr Harvey Millar received a PhD in the Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Australian National University. His doctoral research looked at the regulation of electron transport pathways in plant mitochondria, during both normal plant growth and during symbiotic nitrogen fixation with the aid of rhizobium bacteria.
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Emeritus Professor

Rick Middleton

FAA

Rick Middleton
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Professor Richard Middleton is internationally known for his fundamental contributions across the broad spectrum of electrical engineering. His work combines deep theoretical analysis with real world implementation that have high practical relevance. He pioneered work on fundamental limitations in control system design, made important contributions to digital control and provided novel and deep insights into adaptive control. Professor Middleton also made high level contributions to practical aspects of process control, telecommunications, power electronics and systems biology.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310114 Systems Biology
40 ENGINEERING 49 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  • 4901 APPLIED MATHEMATICS
    • 490103 Calculus of Variations, Systems Theory and Control Theory

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Control Systems
  • Power Systems
  • Control Theory
  • Robotics
  • Autonomous Systems
  • ICT

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Professor

Don Metcalf

AC FAA FRS

Don Metcalf
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Distinguished for his work on Murine leukaemia and the function of the thymus. In 1956, he showed that the thymus alone of normal tissues contained a soluble substance capable of stimulating lymphocytopoiesis. He provided evidence of the importance of this factor in the development of lymphatic leukaemia in mouse strains genetically susceptible to the disease, and has analysed the process of leukaemogenesis in the thymus in detail. His quantitative work on the size and cellular composition of the mouse thymus and thymic grafts has been essential to the modern development of concepts of the thymus as a major immunological organ.

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Related

Memoir

Donald Metcalf 1929–2014

Donald Metcalf was a colossus of science who introduced cancer research to the Walter and Eliza Hall of Medical Research, and spent 60 years making discoveries in haematology that changed cancer care for millions of patients worldwide.
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Memoir

Donald Metcalf 1929–2014

Professor Don Metcalf AC FAA FRS was a medical researcher known as the "father of modern haematology," who pioneered the discovery of hormones that regulate blood cell production – benefitting millions of cancer patients around the world.
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Conversation with scientist

Professor Donald Metcalf (1929 - 2014), physiologist

Professor Donald Metcalf interviewed by Dr Max Blythe in 1998. Professor Donald Metcalf was born in 1929 in Mittagong, New South Wales and was educated at the University of Sydney. In 1951 he received a BSc (Med). He earned an MB BS in 1953 for his work on the ectromelia virus; this research was the beginning of his interest in haematology.
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Professor

Fred Mendelsohn

AO FAA

Fred Mendelsohn
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Professor Mendelsohn pioneered the concept that angiotensin acts at the local tissue level by direct analysis of peptide levels, by defining the anatomical locations of the relevant enzymes and receptors and by subsequent physiological studies. The modern investigation of the brain angiotensin system started with Mendelsohn’s seminal mapping of brain AT1 and AT2 receptors that directed much subsequent experimental elucidation of angiotensin’s central functions. These discoveries underlie contemporary concepts of the pathophysiology of hypertension, heart failure and renal disease and underpin their current treatment by ACE inhibitors and angiotensin antagonists. His group’s recent cloning of the AT4 receptor opens up a new field regarding regulation of learning and memory.

Expertise type

  • Medical Sciences
  • Neuropeptides
  • Neurophysiology
  • Neuroscience

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Professor

Don Melrose

FAA

Don Melrose
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Professor Melrose is distinguished for his work on the theory of processes in nonthermal ionized gases, and their applications in astrophysics. His numerous contributions include the definitive work on the polarization of plasma emission in solar radio bursts and the cyclotron maser theory for certain planetary and solar radio emissions. His original work fundamental to physics has culminated in a theory which synthesizes quantum electrodynamics and the classical theory of magnetized plasmas. His interests have been expounded in a two-volume book 'Plasma Astrophysics' published in 1980 and more recently in a book 'Instabilities in Space and Laboratory Plasmas' currently in press.

Expertise type

  • Physics
  • Plasma Physics
  • Quantum Electrodynamics
  • Theoretical Astrophysics

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Professor

Jim McLeod

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Jim McLeod
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One of Australia's leading clinical neurologists, McLeod is distinguished for his experimental contributions related particularly to our understanding of peripheral neuropathies in both the somatic and visceral nervous systems. He was the first to demonstrate the convergence of visceral and somatic afferent information onto single cells in the thalamus, thereby providing a physiological basis for the phenomenon of referred pain. In subsequent studies he has related structural changes in nerve fibres to disturbances of conduction determined neurophysiologically, enabling him to establish clearly for the first time the pathology of various neuropathies, such as those occurring in diabetes, alcoholism and acromegaly. Using these and other findings he has made important advances in the diagnosis and management of these common and disabling human disorders.

Expertise type

  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Medical Sciences
  • Motor Neurone Disease
  • Neurophysiology
  • Neuroscience

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