Professor

Ruth Williams

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Ruth Williams
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Ruth Williams is a distinguished mathematician specialising in probability theory. Her seminal research contributions have had a deep and lasting impact on heavy traffic analysis within the field of stochastic networks, which describe real-world systems running at near maximum capacity. These arise in a variety of applications in science and engineering, including in systems biology, high-tech manufacturing, computer systems, telecommunications, transportation, and business service systems. In her PhD thesis and in later work on reflecting Brownian motions in polyhedral domains, Williams developed theory and principles enabling the identification and verification of important approximations for multiclass queueing networks. This research also provided the foundations for subsequent significant research by Williams and others.

Expertise type

  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Heavy Traffic
  • Operations Research
  • Probability Theory
  • Queueing Theory
  • Reflected Diffusions
  • Stochastic Networks
  • Stochastic Processes

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Professor

David Adams

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David Adams
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Professor David Adams is internationally recognised as a leader in membrane physiology and neuroscience research, with a focus on the function and modulation of membrane receptors and ion channels, primarily through molecular biology and electrophysiological recording techniques. Over the past 25 years, Professor Adams has characterised numerous peptides, particularly conotoxins derived from the venom of cone snails, as tools for studying ion channel structure and function, as well as potential therapeutics for treating chronic neuropathic and visceral pain. Professor Adams’s discovery of analgesic conotoxins that target G protein-coupled receptors, which in turn modulate the function of voltage-gated calcium and potassium channels, offers a promising approach for the development of non-opioid drugs for pain treatment.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310110 Receptors and Membrane Biology
    • 310111 Signal Transduction
  • 3109 ZOOLOGY
    • 310909 Animal Physiology - Cell
34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3404 MEDICINAL AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
    • 340401 Biologically Active Molecules
    • 340407 Proteins and Peptides

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

Expertise type

  • Neuropharmacology
  • Neuroscience
  • Electrophysiology
  • Neurophysiology
  • Biophysics
  • Protein Structure-Function Relationships
  • Physiology
  • Ion Channels
  • Pain Neurobiology
  • Pain Neurobiology
  • Biology
  • Pharmacology
  • Brain and Mind

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Associate Professor

Andrew Nash

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Andrew Nash
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Following an eight-year academic career at the University of Melbourne, Dr Nash transitioned to industry R&D, commencing at AMRAD in 1996. He has spent 28 years in various research and executive leadership positions and was most recently Chief Scientific Officer and Head of Research at CSL. In this role he provided overarching scientific leadership and was directly responsible for CSL’s global research activity. Throughout his career Dr Nash has championed the translation of Australian biomedical research outcomes into new therapies for unmet medical needs, led multiple projects that have transitioned into clinical programs, and contributed significantly to the development of an Australian workforce and the supporting infrastructure that is prerequisite for a successful Australian-based biopharmaceutical sector. He currently serves as a Director of the Burnet Institute, Brandon Biocatalyst and Denteric.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS
    • 310507 Genetic Immunology
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3206 MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3404 MEDICINAL AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
    • 340406 Molecular Medicine

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

Expertise type

  • Antibodies
  • Immunology
  • Biotechnology
  • Drug Discovery
  • Cytokines
  • Research Commercialisation
  • Genetic Basis of Disease
  • Autoimmunity
  • Biology
  • Post-research phase biological drug development

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Professor

Robert Mahony

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Robert Mahony
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Professor Robert Mahony pioneered the application of the principles of symmetry to address practical challenges in systems theory and robotics. Identifying and solving key scientific roadblocks by leveraging the intrinsic geometry and symmetry of the problem domain, Professor Mahony spearheaded the development of advanced algorithms for state estimation and optimisation. These contributions have yielded profound societal impacts. The 'Mahony filter' was crucial to the initial wave of commercial drones and is a design cornerstone of the contemporary multi-billion dollar drone industry, delivering one of the most substantial advances in the design of inertial navigation systems witnessed in half-a-century.

Fields of research

40 ENGINEERING
  • 4001 AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
    • 400103 Aircraft Performance and Flight Control Systems
46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES
  • 4602 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND IMAGE PROCESSING
    • 460205 Intelligent robotics

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

Expertise type

  • Control Systems
  • ICT
  • Computer Vision
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Robotics
  • Control Theory

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Professor

Deli Chen

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Deli Chen
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Professor Deli Chen is an eminent soil scientist and internationally recognised authority on the efficiency of nitrogen fertiliser use and its impact on global food security, the environment and climate change. His novel techniques to measure soil nitrogen transformations have led to increased crop productivity while minimising environmental damage. Professor Chen has developed high efficiency nitrogen fertilisers and formulated strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from crop and livestock systems. These achievements have transformed agro-environmental sciences and his innovations on nitrogen and agricultural land management have been taken up by industry and governments worldwide.

Fields of research

10 TECHNOLOGY 30 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES
  • 3002 AGRICULTURE, LAND AND FARM MANAGEMENT
  • 3004 CROP AND PASTURE PRODUCTION
    • 300411 Fertilisers (incl. application)
3106 INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  • 4106 SOIL SCIENCES

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

Expertise type

  • Agricultural Science
  • Soil Biology
  • Plant Nutrition
  • Soil Science
  • Biology
  • Water Quality

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Professor

Trevor Ireland

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Trevor Ireland
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Professor Trevor Ireland is a world leader in geo- and cosmochemistry who developed fundamental infrastructure for isotopic microanalysis that he then used to make breakthrough contributions to understanding the origin and evolution of Earth, Solar System, and other stellar systems. No other contemporary scientist has contributed so broadly and so importantly across such a wide range of fields. Professor Ireland has been the primary driver in developing the second- and third-generation SHRIMP ion microprobes, which are among the most productive instruments in geochronology over many decades, and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future.

Fields of research

37 EARTH SCIENCES
  • 3703 GEOCHEMISTRY
    • 370303 Isotope Geochemistry
  • 3705 GEOLOGY
    • 370502 Geochronology
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5101 ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES
    • 510107 Planetary Science (excl. Extraterrestrial Geology)

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

Expertise type

  • Geology
  • Instrumentation
  • Geochemistry
  • Stable Isotopes
  • Solar System Evolution
  • Planetary Science
  • Geochronology
  • Earth Sciences
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Cosmochemistry

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Professor

Tamara Davis

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Tamara Davis
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Professor Tamara Davis is Australia's pre-eminent theoretical cosmologist, specialising in bridging the gap between cosmology theory and observations with a focus on dark energy. Throughout her career she has fortified the foundations on which modern cosmology is built. She has led efforts to make robust measurements of the homogeneity-scale of the Universe, invent a new way of measuring galactic distances, put upper-limits on the mass of the neutrino, and measure time-dilation in distant supernovae. Professor Davis has also led the cosmological analyses of several major astronomical surveys, resulting in deeper understanding of the properties of dark energy and constraining potential advanced theories of gravity.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5101 ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES

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

Expertise type

  • Cosmology
  • Physics
  • Astrophysics
  • Astronomy

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Professor

David Huang

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David Huang
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Professor David Huang is a biomedical researcher who made fundamental research discoveries on programmed cell suicide (apoptosis) that laid the foundations for the discovery and development of a novel class of anti-cancer drugs. Professor Huang made critical contributions towards revealing how BCL2, often overactive in blood cancers, and related proteins block cell death thereby uncovering how BCL2 could be targeted in cancer cells. In collaboration with industry partners, this work led to the development of venetoclax to target BCL2. Venetoclax has proven highly effective and is now approved in Australia and other jurisdictions for patients with certain types of leukaemias and lymphomas.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310102 Cell Development, Proliferation and Death

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

Expertise type

  • Drug Discovery
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biology
  • Haematology
  • Cell Death
  • Apoptosis
  • Biochemistry
  • Cancer Biology

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Professor

Clare Scott

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Clare Scott
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Professor Clare Scott, an internationally recognised expert in gynaecological cancer research, is Laboratory Head, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Chair of Gynaecological Cancer, University of Melbourne. A clinician-scientist, her research into susceptibility and resistance to precision therapies for rare cancers, particularly rare ovarian cancers, has resulted in pivotal contributions to the development of the landscape-changing, PARP inhibitor treatment. With conspicuous clinical trial leadership and the development of an internationally renowned resource of pre-clinical models, Professor Scott has also developed innovative national infrastructure, enabling access for Australians with rare cancers to expert clinical advice and research.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS
34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3404 MEDICINAL AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
    • 340406 Molecular Medicine

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

Expertise type

  • Cancer
  • Medical Sciences
  • Cancer Immunotherapy
  • Biomarkers
  • Chemotherapy Resistance
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Medicine
  • Cancer Therapy
  • Cell Biology
  • Human Cancer Genomics
  • Human Genetics
  • Ovarian Cancer
  • Cancer Biology

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Professor

Rajeev Varshney

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Rajeev Varshney
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Professor Rajeev Varshney has been instrumental in developing and applying large-scale genomic resources in crop improvement. He has decoded the genomes of over a dozen crops, developed diversity, haplotype catalogues and pangenomes, identified genes for numerous agronomic traits, developed over 20 climate-resilient and high-yielding crop varieties, and trained over 450 scientists. Recently, Professor Varshney developed genome assemblies for 15 Australian chickpea varieties and ten Australian varieties of five horticultural crops and generated whole-genome resequencing data for >300 wheat lines for developing the pangenome of Australian wheat, positively impacting broadacre and horticultural crop industries in Australia.

Fields of research

30 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES
  • 3001 AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS
  • 3108 PLANT BIOLOGY

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

Expertise type

  • Biotechnology
  • Crop Yields
  • Genomics
  • Agricultural Science
  • Crop Improvement
  • Crop Science
  • Wheat Breeding
  • Drought Resistant Crops
  • Plant Biology
  • Legumes
  • Wheat Genetics
  • Plant Breeding
  • Horticultural crops
  • Capacity Building

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