Professor

John Aitken

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John Aitken
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John Aitken's research has elucidated fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating mammalian sperm function, fertilisation and early embryonic development. Demonstrating that oxidative stress, due to electron leakage, plays a major role in defective sperm function, his work linked this pathway to DNA damage and provided the basis for anti-oxidant therapy. Using proteomic approaches, he has identified a number of novel mediators of sperm-egg interactions. These studies unravelled new mechanisms which prevent sperm degeneration by blocking apoptotic pathways. Based on this information, his work provides opportunities to improve fertility and also pathways for new contraceptive development.

Expertise type

  • Animal Biology
  • Biology
  • Contraception
  • Reproductive Biology

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Professor

Lloyd Hollenberg

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Lloyd Hollenberg
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Lloyd Hollenberg has a sustained record of achievements in quantum information science. He has created the physical-quantum information basis for a full-scale silicon quantum computer, drawing on his deep understanding of the physics involved. He has achieved major theoretical and experimental advances in the use of nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond as quantum sensors in physical and biological applications. Hollenberg has also played a major leadership role in the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communications Technology, including mentorship of many students and post-doctoral fellows, service to the discipline, and enthusiastic promotion of physics to the public.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5108 QUANTUM PHYSICS
    • 510803 Quantum Information, Computation and Communication
    • 510899 Quantum Physics not elsewhere classified

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

Expertise type

  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Science
  • Quantum Sensing
  • Quantum Technology
  • Physics

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Dr

Donna Strickland

FAA FRS Nobel Laureate

Donna Strickland
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Professor Donna Strickland made groundbreaking discoveries in the field of laser physics devising a method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. Her chirped pulse amplification technique, or CPA, became standard for subsequent high-intensity lasers. In this technique, first the laser pulses are stretched in time to reduce their peak power, then these pulses are amplified, and finally compressed. If a pulse is compressed in time and becomes shorter, then more light is packed together in the same tiny space – and the intensity of the pulse increases dramatically. Uses of Professor Strickland’s technique include the millions of corrective eye surgeries that are conducted every year using the sharpest of laser beams.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 205 OPTICAL PHYSICS
  • 5102 ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
    • 510203 Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

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

Expertise type

  • Optical Physics
  • Laser Physics
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Physics
  • Lasers

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Professor

Eric Warrant

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Eric Warrant
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Eric Warrant is a world leader in the fields of neuroethology, comparative vision, and visual ecology, and actively leads and serves these fields on the international stage. He is the world authority on vision and navigation in extremely dim light and has elucidated the optical and neural principles that dramatically improve visual performance in nocturnal and deep-sea animals. These have been applied in novel camera technologies. Warrant has also discovered the sensory mechanisms that enable nocturnal animals to navigate while homing or migrating, including the magnetic and stellar compasses of the iconic and endangered Bogong moth.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3109 ZOOLOGY
    • 310906 Animal Neurobiology
52 PSYCHOLOGY
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology

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

Expertise type

  • Animal Biology
  • Brain Function
  • Flying Insects
  • Neurophysiology
  • Biophysics
  • Insects
  • Retinal Photoceptors
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Vision Science
  • Modelling
  • Vision
  • Neurobiology
  • Optics
  • Electrophysiology
  • Behavioural Ecology
  • Ecology
  • Visual Processing
  • Sensation
  • Vertebrate Vision
  • Visual Receptors
  • Biology

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Professor

Brian Lawn

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Brian Lawn
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Brian Lawn is arguably the world's leading researcher on brittle fracture. Author of a classic text on the subject (published in 1975, still in print), he has been a pioneer in ceramic science, with a broad reach into biological materials. He is one of the most cited materials scientists. He obtained his degrees in physics at UWA and lectured at UNSW before joining NIST in 1981. In 2001 he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He collaborates extensively with researchers at UWA and Curtin. In 2008 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering by UWA.

Expertise type

  • Engineering

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Professor

Matthias Hentze

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Matthias Hentze
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Matthias Hentze is a world leading biomedical researcher and early pioneer of RNA research. His contributions to translational control, including IRE regulation of ferritin mRNAs, are now enshrined in all leading textbooks of biochemistry and molecular cell biology. His recent work, in collaboration with Australian scientists, has led to the discovery of hundreds of new RNA-binding proteins involved in gene regulation. These discoveries foreshadow a new phase in our understanding of genome functions and metabolism, with numerous biological processes affected by genomically transcribed RNAs that control the functions of existing proteins. In 2013, Hentze was appointed Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, one of the premier biology research centres in the world and an official strategic partner of Australian science. Australia was the first EMBL Associate Member state and the laboratories provide important training opportunities for Australian scientists. Hentze has received numerous prestigious research awards, including Germany’s highest research honour, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2000), and the Feodor Lynen Medal and Lecture (2015).

Expertise type

  • Medical Sciences

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Professor

Richard Ellis

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Richard Ellis
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Richard Ellis is a distinguished astronomer who works primarily in observational cosmology, considering the origin and evolution of galaxies, the evolution of largescale structures in the Universe, and the nature and distribution of dark matter. His landmark discoveries have opened-up the distant Universe to direct observation, often with instruments he designed or proposed. Australian astronomy has benefitted greatly from his intellectual leadership and generous support. Ellis conceived the award-winning ‘Two degree Field’ facility at the Anglo-Australian Telescope, which has produced some of the highest cited papers in cosmology, and continues to advance Australian astronomy 25 years on. Ellis continues to advocate for new facilities in Australia.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5101 ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES
    • 510102 Astronomical instrumentation
    • 510103 Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy

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

Expertise type

  • Galaxy Evolution
  • Galaxy Formation
  • Cosmology
  • Extragalactic Astronomy
  • Large Scale Structure
  • Astronomical Instrumentation
  • Galaxies
  • Physics
  • Astrophysics

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Professor

Jillian Banfield

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Jillian Banfield
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Jillian Banfield is distinguished for her research on natural nanomaterials, including clays, microbiology and biogeochemical cycling in subsurface environments, bioremediation and the human microbiome. A key component of her microbiological research is the development and application of DNA sequencing-based methods to study organisms in the context of their natural communities. Since 2001, Banfield has been based at the University of California in Berkeley, where she heads their geo-microbiology program. Banfield’s current research spans field sites in Northern California to Australia and from subjects including astrobiology and genomics/geosciences. Banfield was elected to membership of the National Academy of Science, USA (2006) and has received many awards and honours including, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science (2011).

Expertise type

  • Earth Sciences

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Professor

Birger Møller

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Birger Møller
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Birger Lindberg Moller is Professor of Plant Biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where he is also director of two world renowned Research Centres of Excellence and of the section for "Plant Pathway Discovery" in the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for BioSustainability. He has made seminal contributions to the areas of photosynthesis, bio-active natural products and synthetic biology, for which he has received numerous hounours including Fellowship of all four of the Danish Learned Academies, the pre-eminent Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Prize, and a Knighthood. He is also a ministerial appointee on the European Academies Science Advisory Council. Professor Moller has an extensive engagement with Australian science and has made significant contributions to our research and research administration, including service as Chariman of the Federation Fellowships Selection Committee for the Australian Research Council, hosting numerous Australian researchers, and ongoing research collaborations with four separate Australian institutions under ARC Linkage Projects.

Expertise type

  • Plant Biology
  • Biology

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Professor

John Dewey

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John Dewey
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Following the advent of plate tectonics, of which he was a pioneer, Dewey has been a leader in transforming tectonic geology to its modern form. His research is characterised by imaginative and clever model building constrained by meticulous field observation. His work on mountain belts has showed how their evolution is related to continent­continent and arc-continent collisions. He has made major contributions to understanding both the detailed nature and the timing of those events. As a frequent visitor to Australia during the last twenty years, Dewey has presented many stimulating lectures at conferences and elsewhere, and has been a lively participant in many field excursions.

Expertise type

  • Earth Sciences

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