Professor Kotagiri is well known internationally for his outstanding contributions in the area of database systems. In particular, his work on optimal multi-dimensional indexing techniques and query optimisation techniques for deductive database systems are significant and important contributions. Under his leadership a deductive database system, ADITI, has been developed. He was a Director of the Key Centre for Knowledge Based Systems, Research Director for the Cooperative Research Centre for Intelligent Decision Systems, and is currently Deputy Director of the Special Research Centre for Ultra Broadband Information Networks. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

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Professor Knox is distinguished for his studies on the reproductive systems of flowering plants. He has analysed the structure, composition, development and interactions of pollen grains, stigmas and embryo sacs, imaginatively using light and electron microscopy techniques of protein and glycoprotein biochemistry. He has also pioneered the application of immunological methods to plant material and elucidated concepts of cell-to-cell recognition that are of fundamental significance for work on plant breeding and development. His research on aerobiology and pollination has specified biological roles for the allergenic proteins and the elegantly sculptured walls of pollen. It has practical implications both in the production of new hybrids by overcoming incompatibility barriers, and in knowledge of allergic disease and the natural history of pollination systems. His innovative approaches have greatly extended the horizons of the plant sciences.

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Tony Klein is known internationally for his work on neutron optics, especially his work on neutron interferometry. He was instrumental in developing the technique of neutron interferometry as a tool to verify the sign change in rotation of a spinor through 360°, and has applied it to many other experiments, most recently and perhaps best known to the observation of the Aharonov-Casher effect.

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Professor Kelly is unique among Australian mathematicians in that his international reputation rests on work in a thoroughly modern, non-classical, branch of mathematics. Indeed, category theory is barely ten years old, yet in the span of a few years it has seen a remarkable development into an all-embracing mathematical discipline, pervading almost all fundamental structures of mathematics. Professor Kelly has played a leading role in this development along with the creators of the theory, S. Eilenberg and Saunders McLane. He has a powerful mathematical personality, sharp-witted and formidable in debate; he is very active at present and his influence on the young generation of Australian mathematicians is considerable.

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Kate Jolliffe is a leader in the fields of supramolecular and organic chemistry and has made world-leading contributions to organic synthesis, anion recognition and molecular self-assembly. Her international reputation is a result of her expertise in the design and synthesis of complex molecular architectures, which she uses to generate new molecular structures. Jolliffe’s transformative achievements include the development of selective receptors for pyrophosphate and sulfate ions; and the development of new methods that enable the synthesis of macrocyclic peptides. She has been awarded the Beckwith, Biota, Birch and H.G. Smith medals of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

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Dr Jacobsen is internationally renowned for his contributions to plant science in the field of hormonal action in plant cells. In his analysis of the a-amylase gene in barley aleurone cells, he showed that gibberellin action involved new protein and mRNA synthesis. At the gene level, he identified elements in the a-amylase promoter which mediate gibberellin control. He identified a transcription factor, GAMYB, which binds to the a-amylase promoter to control transcription. This protein/DNA interaction is a major component of the gibberellin signal transduction pathway. Jacobsen has applied this knowledge to genetically engineer barley to improve malting quality.

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Rob Hyndman is one of the world’s most recognised applied statisticians, and is internationally acknowledged for his research in time series forecasting. Time series data are endemic in many fields of science and business but forecasting is notoriously challenging. Hyndman co-developed fundamental state space theory for these data that underpin the most widely used time series methods in the field. His methods for automatic forecasting, forecast reconciliation, functional time series, feature-based analysis and computational time series, have had an enormous influence on the field. His textbooks and software have transformed the capability of many organisations to make accurate predictions.

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Associate Professor R. J. Hunter is distinguished for his scholarship and scientific leadership in Australian and international colloid and surface science. His research has been in four central areas of the science of aqueous interfaces: the electrical double layer at solid-aqueous interfaces, the properties of aqueous electrolyte solutions, the transport behaviour of colloids and the rheology of model and technologically important colloidal dispersions. His leadership is attested by his 1981 monograph on "The Zeta potential in colloid science" and by his textbook "Foundations of colloid science": Both texts display his unique grasp of pure and applied surface science.

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