Professor

Ingrid Scheffer

AO FAA FAHMS FRS

Ingrid Scheffer
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Professor Ingrid Scheffer has carried out seminal research at the boundaries of human molecular genetics, paediatrics and neurology to determine the genetic causes of epilepsy and related disorders. Her description of novel forms of epilepsy and identification of the genes underlying these disorders has allowed prevention in families, and led to significant advances in establishing a diagnosis, therapy, and in helping affected individuals and families minimise the severe handicap often associated with these diseases. Professor Scheffer has ensured that her research findings are translated into practical outcomes and are understood by the wider medical and lay communities.

Expertise type

  • Epilepsy
  • Genomics
  • Medical Sciences
  • Neuroscience

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Professor

Matthew Brown

FAA FAHMS

Matthew Brown
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Professor Brown is a clinician-scientist who has made important contributions to the field of common human disease gene-mapping, where he played a significant role in the development of genomewide association studies, a genetic study design which has revolutionised gene-mapping. He is also a leading researcher internationally in musculoskeletal disease genetics, particularly in the diseases ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis, and is a principal investigator in international consortia studying these common conditions. He has also made significant discoveries in genetics of rare human diseases, mapping genes responsible for monogenic forms of arthritis, ectopic bone development, and skeletal dysplasias.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3202 CLINICAL SCIENCES
    • 320223 Rheumatology and Arthritis
  • 3204 IMMUNOLOGY
    • 320406 Immunogenetics (incl. Genetic Immunology)
  • 3211 ONCOLOGY AND CARCINOGENESIS
    • 321103 Cancer Genetics

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

Expertise type

  • Genomics
  • Immunology
  • Medical Sciences
  • Rheumatology
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Ankylosing Spondylitis
  • Osteoporosis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis

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Professor

Michael Alpers

AO FAA FRS

Michael Alpers
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The candidate has made major contributions to tropical medicine through studies carried out from a base in the national research institution of a tropical disease-endemic country. He designed and carried out these studies in the course of building up the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNGIMR) from a dying institution to one of world renown. His major scientific achievements include seminal studies on the natural history and epidemiology of kuru; work which led to the first successful transmission of kuru to chimpanzees; and pivotal studies on pneumonia and malaria using the facilities of the PNGIMR for direct field investigations.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3207 MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
    • 320702 Medical Infection Agents (incl. Prions)
4202 EPIDEMIOLOGY 4203 HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS

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

Expertise type

  • Medical Sciences
  • Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease
  • Malaria
  • Tropical Medicine
  • Community Health
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Prion Diseases

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Professor

Branka Vucetic

FAA FTSE

Branka Vucetic
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Branka Vucetic has made fundamental contributions to the science of coding theory, which underpins all modern telecommunications techniques. Her research has had a major impact, especially in areas of code division multiple access (CDMA) systems, adaptive modulation, Wi-Fi networks, and wireless multi-way relay networks. Her work has yielded basic theories, algorithms, major applications in areas such as smart grids and cellular networks. She is highly cited and has co-authored four advanced textbooks in wireless communications and coding. In 2014, Vucetic was awarded the Chinese Government Friendship Award for her contributions to education, science and technology in China.

Expertise type

  • Wireless Communications
  • ICT
  • Error Control Coding
  • mmWave Communications

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Professor

Toby Walsh

FAA FTSE

Toby Walsh
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Toby Walsh has made important scientific contributions in three closely related areas: artificial intelligence, constraint programming and computational social choice. These contributions have strongly influenced both the theory and practice of how optimisation problems are solved in industry. He has been a pioneer in theoretical artificial intelligence, building on ideas from fields including statistical physics, economics and game theory to study many complex and challenging optimisation problems such as scheduling and vehicle routing. His algorithms are included in the leading open source and commercial toolkits that are used to solve such problems in industry.

Fields of research

46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES
  • 4602 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND IMAGE PROCESSING
    • 460299 Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
  • 4613 THEORY OF COMPUTATION
    • 461302 Computational complexity and computability
    • 461303 Computational logic and formal languages
49 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  • 4903 NUMERICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS
    • 490304 Optimisation
  • 4904 PURE MATHEMATICS
    • 490404 Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics (excl. Physical Combinatorics)

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

Expertise type

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
  • ICT

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Emeritus Professor

Hans Bachor

AM FAA

Hans Bachor
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Hans Bachor invented, and was the first to demonstrate, spatially multiplexed quantum optical communication systems. This discovery opened a new path for engineering practical quantum communication technologies. The demonstration was as elegant as it was innovative; the outcome of a lifetime of experimental achievement at the interface between quantum and classical optics.

Fields of research

39 EDUCATION
  • 3903 EDUCATION SYSTEMS
    • 390301 Continuing and Community Education
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 205 OPTICAL PHYSICS

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

Expertise type

  • Laser Physics
  • Optics
  • Physics
  • Quantum Physics

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Professor Hans-Albert Bachor in conversation with Dr TJ Higgins

Professor Hans-Albert Bachor is a German-born Australian research scientist and academic leader. He was born in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, in 1952 and studied Physics in Hannover, where he received his diploma and doctorate.
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Professor

Andrew White

FAA

Andrew White
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Professor Andrew White has pioneered world-leading experiments in quantum computation and quantum optics. His research on the first unambiguous demonstration of a quantum-logic gate operation set the standard for all competing quantum logic gates. Following this major achievement he published the first experimental realisation of the three qubit "Toffoli" gate and the first experimental demonstration of a quantum chemistry algorithm, obtaining the ground and first three-excited state energies of molecular hydrogen. Underpinning these achievements he is also well known for his contributions to modern quantum phenomenon such as quantum discord, quantum state and process tomography and optical vortices.

Fields of research

40 ENGINEERING
  • 4009 ELECTRONICS, SENSORS AND DIGITAL HARDWARE
    • 400909 Photonic and electro-optical devices, sensors and systems (excl. communications)
    • 400910 Photovoltaic devices (solar cells)
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5102 ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
    • 510202 Lasers and Quantum Electronics
  • 5108 QUANTUM PHYSICS
    • 510803 Quantum Information, Computation and Communication
    • 510804 Quantum optics and quantum optomechanics
    • 510899 Quantum Physics not elsewhere classified

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

Expertise type

  • Physics
  • Quantum Information Science
  • Quantum Optics
  • Quantum Physics

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Professor

Ian Petersen

FAA

Ian Petersen
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Professor Petersen has made important contributions to science in the area of robust control theory. His results on the Riccati equation approach to robust control enables robust state feedback controllers to be reliably synthesised using standard software tools. Professor Petersen’s research has had an important impact on the development of H-infinity control theory. H-infinity control theory is one of the most important recent developments in modern control theory and it has been extensively and successfully applied to many practical control problems.

Fields of research

40 ENGINEERING
  • 4008 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

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

Expertise type

  • Control Systems
  • Physics
  • Quantum Control
  • Quantum Physics

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Professor

Hugh Durrant-Whyte

FAA FTSE FRS

Hugh Durrant-Whyte
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Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte has made major contributions in two evolving fields: autonomous vehicle navigation and sensor data fusion. His work has led to significant applications; for example the AutoStrad system which is now being used to load containers onto ships. He also pioneered research in the now popular Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) area. In each case he has pioneered the mathematical development of the field, published a number of high-impact contributions, and, importantly, has led developments through to commercial implementation. His (large) research group has become a world leader in navigation systems research for outdoor vehicles.

Expertise type

  • Autonomous Systems
  • Computer Science
  • ICT
  • Robotics

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Professor

David Hill

FAA FTSE

David Hill
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Professor Hill has made important scientific contributions in several areas of dynamical systems theory with applications to power networks and control systems. He is regarded as one of the leading stability analysts in the world whose seminal contributions have initiated several new lines of research.

Fields of research

40 ENGINEERING
  • 4007 Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics
    • 400705 Control engineering
  • 4008 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
    • 400801 Circuits and Systems
    • 400805 Electrical energy transmission, networks and systems
46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES
  • 4606 DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS SOFTWARE
49 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  • 4901 APPLIED MATHEMATICS
    • 490103 Calculus of Variations, Systems Theory and Control Theory
    • 490104 Complex systems

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

Expertise type

  • Graph Theory
  • Computational Methods
  • Machine Learning
  • Control Theory
  • Dynamical Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Power Systems
  • Mathematics
  • Engineering
  • Electrical energy networks and systems
  • Stability Theory
  • Planning and Decision Making in Engineering

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