Professor

Andrew Blakers

AO FAA FTSE

Andrew Blakers
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Andrew Blakers has made major contributions to the advancement of solar energy as the key to decarbonizing the global economy. He was joint developer of the PERC solar cell, which has 80% of the global market, cumulative module sales of US$150 billion and is mitigating 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions through displacement of coal. Blakers is globally prominent in analysis of 100% renewable energy systems and developed the Global Atlas of Pumped Hydro Energy Storage. He is co-winner of numerous awards including the 2023 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering and the 2018 Eureka Prize for Environmental Research.

Fields of research

85 ENERGY
  • 8503 Preparation and Production of Energy Sources
  • 8504 Energy Transformation
  • 8505 Renewable Energy
  • 8506 Energy Storage, Distribution and Supply
  • 8507 Energy Conservation and Efficiency
  • 8598 Environmentally Sustainable Energy Activities
  • 8599 Other Energy

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

Expertise type

  • Photovoltaics
  • Offshore Renewable Energy
  • Engineering
  • Solar energy
  • Renewable energy
  • Energy Storage

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Professor

Rachelle Buchbinder

AO FAA FAHMS

Rachelle Buchbinder
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Rachelle Buchbinder is a rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist who is internationally recognised for her sustained research achievements in the musculoskeletal health field, and for being a vocal proponent of evidence-informed high-value health care. Her seminal and highly cited works include evaluation of a world-first mass media campaign that successfully shifted misconceptions about back pain and the widely acclaimed 2018 Lancet Low Back Pain Series that she led. She has published over twenty musculoskeletal trials that have challenged the value of accepted treatments, been influential in changing paradigms about the value of placebo-surgical trials and tested implementation strategies to improve care.

Fields of research

4202 EPIDEMIOLOGY

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

Expertise type

  • Medical Sciences
  • Clinical Translation
  • Public Health
  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Rheumatology

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Professor

Catherine Stampfl

FAA

Catherine Stampfl
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Catherine Stampfl is a theoretical condensed matter physicist with an outstanding international reputation for her investigations into the atomic and electronic structure of solids, their surfaces, interfaces, and nanostructures. She uses accurate first-principles calculations, in conjunction with high-performance computing, to gain fundamental understanding of the behaviour of matter and to predict new and improved materials for technological applications. She has made paradigm-shifting investigations in the area of theoretical surface science and sustained contributions in materials for nanoelectronic devices. Her research field bridges the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering and materials science.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5104 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

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

Expertise type

  • Catalysis
  • Materials Science
  • Nanomaterials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Surfaces
  • Nanoscience
  • Physics

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Professor

Andrew Cole

FAA

Andrew Cole
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Professor Andrew Cole is distinguished for his contribution to spectroscopy and its application to molecular structure determination. His earlier work pioneered the application of infra red spectroscopy to the structure determination of natural products such as steroids and triterpenoids. He was the first to adapt the reflecting microscope to measuring infra-red spectra. His recent work has involved the design and construction of high resolution spectrometers for the visible and the near and far infra-red regions and the study of simple fundamental molecules such as methane, ethane, glyoxal, butadiene, acrolein, acetylene, nitric oxide and cyanogen fluoride leading to highly precise measurements of geometrical parameters.

Expertise type

  • Chemical Education
  • Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Spectroscopy

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Professor Andrew Cole, chemist

Professor Andrew Cole interviewed by Professor Donald Watts 15 October 2010. Andrew Reginald Howard (Andy) Cole was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1924. He qualified for a place at Perth's only selective school, Perth Modern School, in 1937. After finishing secondary school in 1941, Cole was awarded a government university exhibition to study at the University of Western Australia (1942-46).
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Memoir

Andrew (Andy) Cole 1924–2024

Professor Andy Cole was a world leader in the infrared spectroscopy of small gas molecules, with a strong interest in science education.
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Professor

George Szekeres

AM FAA

George Szekeres
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G. Szekeres is one of the most active five mathematicians in Australia at present and his work is internationally known and respected. His range of interests is wide and his 38 published papers are roughly evenly divided amoung the fields of number theory, abstract algebra, combinatorial geometry, real and complex analysis, and general relativity. His most significant recent work has been in analysis, particularly in the theory of functional iteration.

Expertise type

  • Mathematics
  • Combinatorics
  • Number Theory

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Professor George Szekeres (1911-2005), mathematician

George Szekeres was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1911. Although showing an early interest in and talent for mathematics, he studied chemical engineering at the Technological University of Budapest and then worked in a leather factory. In 1939 he fled Europe with his wife, Esther, and spent the war years in Shanghai.
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Sir

Sydney Sunderland

CMG FAA

Sydney Sunderland
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Expertise type

  • Medical Sciences
  • Anatomy
  • Neurology

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Memoir

Sydney Sunderland 1910-1993

This short memoir of Sir Sydney Sunderland is based on autobiographical information assembled by Sir Sydney, on a number of informal discussions the author had with him during the last five years of his life, and on the more accessible public documentation of his many activities associated with the University of Melbourne and the Federal and State Governments. In these notes I am more concerned with providing a picture of the kind of man Sydney Sunderland was, his science, and his contributions to Australian universities and to the community, than with presenting exhaustive detail of his many achievements.
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Professor

Evans Lagudah

AO FAA

Evans Lagudah
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Evans Lagudah has made outstanding contributions to international agriculture by providing the first insights into the quantitative wheat rust disease resistance trait, Adult Plant Resistance (APR). He cloned the Lr34 and Lr67 genes, which are a novel class of multi-pathogen resistance genes. Transfer of these genes into the world’s top five cereals confers resistance to diverse pathogens. Lagudah has also cloned several plant immune receptor genes which together with the APR genes are selected by the world’s leading wheat improvement programs. He has made critical contributions to strategies aimed at durable rust resistance, a trait vital for world food security.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS

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

Expertise type

  • Disease Resistance
  • Crop Improvement
  • Multi-pathogen Resistance
  • Plant Molecular Genetics
  • Rust Disease
  • Wheat Genetics
  • Biology

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Sir

John Eccles

AC FAA FRS Nobel Laureate

John Eccles
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Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Physiology
  • Brain and Mind
  • Cell Membranes

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John Carew Eccles 1903-1997

Sir John Eccles was internationally recognized for his remarkable and outstanding impact on the neurosciences for more than six decades. Eccles made his mark as an administrator, particularly at the Australian National University and the Australian Academy of Science, of which he was a Foundation Fellow and the second President.
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Professor

James McCluskey

AO FAA FAHMS

James McCluskey
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James McCluskey is internationally recognised for his contribution to understanding the biology of the Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA) of the major histocompatibility complex. He has made critical discoveries underpinning the biochemical basis for HLA determinant selection, genetic control of cellular immunity and the structural basis of T cell recognition. His work has provided a paradigm for the basis of HLA associations with human disease, including the immunogenetic basis of T cell mediated drug hypersensitivity. He identified the basic mechanisms of determinant spreading of autoantibody specificity in systemic autoimmunity. His record includes significant translational achievements in clinical immunology and allogeneic transplantation.

Expertise type

  • Genomics
  • Medical Sciences
  • Immunology
  • Autoimmunity

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Professor

Alan Carey

FAA

Alan Carey
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Alan Carey is internationally renowned for original research in several distinct areas of pure mathematics, bridging analysis, geometry, topology and mathematical physics. He is particularly well known for his work on infinite dimensional groups and their application to quantum field theory. He is also a leading expert in spectral invariants of manifolds and has contributed strongly to the development of non-commutative geometry and its application to quantum–mechanical phenomena in solid state physics. Finally, Carey has written extensively on geometric structures in quantum field theory. Carey has also played a very strong leadership and nurturing role in Australian mathematics.

Expertise type

  • Quantum Information
  • Mathematics
  • Algebra
  • Classical Mechanics

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