Professor

Jessica Purcell

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Jessica Purcell
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In the 20 years since earning her PhD in pure mathematics, Professor Jessica Purcell has developed an international reputation for her ground-breaking contribution to low-dimensional topology and geometry. She specialises in three-dimensional manifolds, which have important practical applications to fluid dynamics, crystallography and materials science, computer vision, and other fields. Her contributions have been recognised with numerous prestigious awards and invitations to present at high-profile national and international events. Professor Purcell has been involved in significant leadership and mentoring activities and the promotion of science, particularly mathematical sciences, throughout her career. She has strong communication skills and enjoys outreach activities such as speaking about mathematics to high school students.

Expertise type

  • Pure Mathematics
  • Combinatorial Mathematics
  • Mathematics

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Professor

Michael Stumpf

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Michael Stumpf
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Professor Michael Stumpf is internationally recognised for his ground-breaking contributions to the theory of living systems. He has created the mathematical, statistical, and computational foundations that have enabled detailed insights into the intricate molecular processes underlying cellular behaviour. In his research he has identified the fundamental mechanisms by which molecular noise is generated and propagated, and his research has provided key insights into the forces that shape cellular behaviour and dynamics. Professor Stumpf is an inspiring teacher and mentor, and he has created a world-leading research, training, and innovation culture at the interface between the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310113 Synthetic Biology
    • 310114 Systems Biology
5103 CLASSICAL PHYSICS
  • 510304 Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

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

Expertise type

  • Biophysics
  • Cell Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Developmental Biology
  • Systems Biology
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Computational biology

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Dr

Marlene Kanga

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Marlene Kanga
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Dr Marlene Kanga is listed among Australia’s top 10 women engineers. She is an Officer of the Order of Australia “for distinguished service to engineering, as a global leader and role model to women.” As a migrant engineer, she balanced family and career, achieving leadership as National President of Engineers Australia, and as President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (2017-19). She now leads innovative companies with global patents, and process safety engineering internationally as Chair, IChemE Safety Centre. Successfully proposing UNESCO’s declaration of 4th March as World Engineering Day, Dr Kanga led the review of the benchmark for international multilateral recognition of engineering education.

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3499 OTHER CHEMICAL SCIENCES
    • 349999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
85 ENERGY
  • 8505 Renewable Energy

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

Expertise type

  • Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering

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Professor

Gabrielle Belz

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Gabrielle Belz
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Professor Gabrielle Belz is an immunologist whose work has provided seminal insights into cellular and molecular mechanisms that shape the immune system’s response to pathogen infections. Her work has uncovered the breadth of the responsiveness of anti-viral immune cells, the essential role of helper CD4 T cells in the generation of memory CD8 T cells and defined the antigen-presenting cells required for responses to pathogens and tissue-antigens. Her work has also uncovered how innate cells collaborate with adaptive cells in a key immune checkpoint. Professor Belz’s work has provided fundamental knowledge identifying new elements of the functioning of the immune system that could be harnessed therapeutically.

Fields of research

30 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES
  • 3009 VETERINARY SCIENCES
    • 300906 Veterinary Immunology
31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3104 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
    • 310407 Host-Parasite Interactions
  • 3107 MICROBIOLOGY
    • 310706 Virology
  • 3109 ZOOLOGY
    • 310905 Animal Immunology
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3204 IMMUNOLOGY

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

Expertise type

  • Lymphocytes
  • Innate Immunity
  • Immune Regulation
  • Molecular Biology
  • Virus Infection
  • Immunology
  • T Cells
  • Vaccines
  • Transcriptional regulation
  • Immune Response
  • Viral Pathogenesis
  • Cytotoxic T Cells
  • Cell Biology

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Professor

Xiaojing Hao

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Xiaojing Hao
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Professor Xiaojing Hao is at the international forefront of developing cost-effective thin-film semiconductor materials to harvest sunlight for future photovoltaic products and applications. She has made vital contributions to photovoltaic science/engineering by setting and still holding record efficiencies in green kesterite (Cu2ZnSnS4) solar cells, developing unique solutions for improving various emerging thin film photovoltaic devices, and pursuing efficient, cheap and environmentally friendly thin-film materials for building-integrated and product-integrated photovoltaics. Professor Hao is an ARC Future Fellow and recipient of both the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year and the Pawsey Medal.

Fields of research

40 ENGINEERING
  • 4008 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
  • 4016 MATERIALS ENGINEERING
    • 401605 Functional Materials
85 ENERGY
  • 8504 Energy Transformation
  • 8505 Renewable Energy

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

Expertise type

  • Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Semiconductors
  • Photovoltaics
  • Materials Science

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Professor

Derek Leinweber

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Derek Leinweber
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Professor Derek Leinweber is a distinguished theoretical physicist eminent for elucidating the phenomena emerging from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the relativistic quantum field theory of the strong interactions. Performing direct first-principles supercomputer simulations, he disclosed the structure of the QCD ground-state fields forming the foundation of matter. He illustrated how the fundamental mechanism of centre vortices in the fields confine quarks and generate mass. Professor Leinweber’s ab-initio calculations of the electromagnetic structure of nucleon and Lambda-baryon excitations lead the field, advancing theoretical techniques. Combining these breakthroughs with novel developments of nonperturbative effective field theory, he has revolutionised understanding of QCD.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES 510601 Nuclear Physics 510703 Particle Physics

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

Expertise type

  • Numerical Analysis
  • Theoretical Physics
  • Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory
  • Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
  • Physics
  • Computational Physics
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Lattice Field Theory
  • Chiral Effective Field Theory
  • Computational Methods

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Professor

Jürgen Götz

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Jürgen Götz
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Professor Jürgen Götz is Endowed Chair of Dementia Research and Director of the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research at the Queensland Brain Institute (University of Queensland). After obtaining his PhD in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Georges Koehler, he worked in academia and industry in the US and Switzerland, before relocating to Australia in 2005. He has made fundamental contributions to understanding the mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s dementia. Professor Götz’s discoveries around low-intensity ultrasound as a modality for treating brain diseases led to significant funding, building a clinical ready device, a completed clinical trial and a start-up company.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310104 Cell Neurochemistry
40 ENGINEERING
  • 4003 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
    • 400308 Medical Devices

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

Expertise type

  • Gene Therapy
  • Neurophysiology
  • Neurodegenerative Disease
  • Neuroscience
  • Protein-protein Interactions
  • Medical Devices
  • Biochemistry
  • Medical Sciences

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Professor

Helen Christensen

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Helen Christensen
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Professor Helen Christensen is widely regarded as a world leader in the field of digital mental health interventions. She pioneered many of the processes and strategies that are used internationally today. Trained as a clinical psychologist, she led the translation of traditional face-to-face psychological treatment to digital delivery. Through over 50 trials and cohort studies, Professor Christensen demonstrated the effectiveness of digital interventions. Relatedly, she has pioneered the science of digital phenotyping by which passive data collection (from smartphones) can monitor a person’s mental health. Overall, her digital developments have been used by millions of people globally, meaning that Professor Christensen has had an enormous global impact on mental health.

Fields of research

42 HEALTH SCIENCES
  • 4206 PUBLIC HEALTH

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

Expertise type

  • Mental Health
  • Technology
  • Public Health
  • Suicide
  • Anxiety
  • Internet
  • Depression
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Medical Sciences
  • Suicide prevention

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Professor

Nicole Webster

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Nicole Webster
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Professor Nicole Webster is a global leader in marine microbial symbiosis and has generated transformational insights into coral reef microbiology. She pioneered the application of molecular tools to study sponge microbial symbioses, discovering that sponges are a major contributor to the bacterial diversity of the world's oceans. Professor Webster elucidated mechanisms of sponge symbiont transmission, established the ecological and evolutionary drivers of sponge-microbe interactions, provided the first insights into the role of viral auxiliary metabolic genes in sponge ecology, revealed a critical role for sponge symbionts in cycling reef organic matter and provided the first insights into sponge holobiont responses to climate change.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3107 MICROBIOLOGY
    • 310703 Microbial Ecology

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

Expertise type

  • Symbiosis
  • Microbial Ecology
  • Climate Change
  • Marine Biology
  • Marine Ecology
  • Antarctic Science
  • Biology

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Dr Nicole Webster, marine scientist

Nicole Webster was born in Ormskirk, UK in 1973. Webster completed a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in 1995 and a PhD in 2001, both at James Cook University in Queensland. Her PhD thesis investigated the microbial ecology of a Great Barrier Reef sponge, focusing on the stability of the symbiotic associations over different areas and under different stresses. Webster’s first postdoctoral fellowship was with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in 2001.
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Professor

Aidan Sims

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Aidan Sims
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Professor Aidan Sims' work in theoretical mathematics has generated enduring research activity, solved significant open problems, and established unexpected connections across mathematics. Among key contributions, he built higher-rank graph C*-algebras from infancy into a major research field; established a long-sought "Rosetta Stone" between Leavitt path algebras and graph operator algebras; computed the exact nuclear dimension of all Kirchberg algebras; and extended the celebrated Boyle-Tomiyama theorem to arbitrary dynamical systems. Professor Sims was an invited speaker at the 2015 Abel Symposium, the 2016 AustMS Medallist, and is the Incoming President of the Australian Mathematical Society.

Fields of research

49 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  • 4904 PURE MATHEMATICS

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

Expertise type

  • Pure Mathematics
  • Algebra
  • Mathematics
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Operator Theory
  • Topology

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