Professor

Mervyn Paterson

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Mervyn Paterson
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Professor Mervyn Paterson is distinguished for his work on experimental geology and the deformation mechanisms of rocks and minerals. By training as an engineer, he has a flair for careful instrument design and built in Canberra some of the first and most successful and accurate high-temperature high-pressure apparatus for studying deformation of rocks and minerals. He has pioneered the experimental study of genesis of geological structures by using rocks themselves rather than model materials. His work on the development of kinking and folding in phyllite is now classical and his work on other problems such as annealing recrystallisation, deformation mechanisms, symmetry principles, and the mechanical properties of serpentinite are of fundamental importance for the geological sciences.

Expertise type

  • Earth Sciences
  • Geophysics
  • Rock Deformation
  • Rock Mechanics

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Memoir

Mervyn Silas Paterson 1925–2020

Professor Mervyn Paterson FAA was an engineer by training whose pioneering work in experimental geology – designing specialised instruments for studying rocks under high temperatures and pressures – furthered understanding of the Earth's crust and mantle.
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Conversation with scientist

Professor Mervyn Paterson, geophysicist

Professor Mervyn Paterson interviewed by Professor Kurt Lambeck in 2006. Professor Mervyn Paterson is a geophysicist who has led Australian research into rock mechanics and pioneered instrument development over the last fifty years. He was born in South Australia in 1925 into a family of wheat farmers. He attended Adelaide Technical High School, then The University of Adelaide from 1941 to 1943.
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Professor

Dorothy Hill

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Dorothy Hill
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Has received world wide recognition for quality of her researches with fossil coral faunas.

Expertise type

  • Geology
  • Palaeontology
  • Earth Sciences

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Memoir

Dorothy Hill 1907-1997

Science, and the attempt to develop the academic standards of Australian universities, were the interests that dominated Dorothy Hill’s life. We refer not only to scientific endeavours as undertaken by herself and her colleagues, but also to basic approaches to administrative, commercial, educational and personal aspects of her life.
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Conversation with scientist

Emeritus Professor Dorothy Hill, Geologist

Dorothy Hill (1907–1997) was a pioneering Australian geologist who became the first woman to receive a gold medal for outstanding graduate at the University of Queensland and later the first female graduate from that university to earn a PhD at Cambridge, where she researched Carboniferous corals. She went on to have a distinguished career as a researcher and academic, serving at CSIR, lecturing at the University of Queensland, contributing to the war effort, and ultimately becoming the first female President of the Australian Academy of Science in 1970. Interviewed by Dr John R. Cole (toward a history of the University of Queensland).
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Emerita Professor

Jennifer Martin

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Jennifer Martin
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Jennifer Martin is an internationally renowned protein crystallographer. She has made seminal discoveries in bacterial redox biochemistry, including revealing how the DsbA enzyme assembles bacterial ‘weapons’, and validating DsbA as a target for novel antibacterials that are now being developed. Through her role as a founding member of the Science and Gender Equity (SAGE) Steering Committee, Martin helped implement the Athena SWAN pilot to address gender equity in science. Martin is a strong public advocate for science with an inspirational and highly effective science communication record.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310106 Enzymes
    • 310108 Protein Trafficking
    • 310110 Receptors and Membrane Biology
    • 310112 Structural Biology (incl. Macromolecular Modelling)
34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3404 MEDICINAL AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
    • 340401 Biologically Active Molecules
    • 340403 Characterisation of Biological Macromolecules
    • 340407 Proteins and Peptides

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

Expertise type

  • Molecular Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Immunology
  • Enzymology
  • Proteins
  • Structural Biology
  • Protein Structure
  • Drug Discovery
  • Fragment-based Screening
  • Protein Crystallography
  • Protein Complexes
  • Protein Structure-Function Relationships
  • Structure-based Inhibitor Design
  • Chemistry

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Professor

Cameron Jones

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Cameron Jones
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Cameron Jones is a recognised international leader in the emerging field of Modern Main Group Chemistry. He has made numerous landmark contributions to the stabilisation of low-oxidation state and metal-to-metal bonded systems. Many novel compound types developed in his laboratory were thought incapable of ambient existence, and their isolation has prompted a re-evaluation of the limits of what is synthetically achievable, and the very nature of metal-to-metal bonding. Jones is also at the forefront of applying reactive, yet environmentally benign, main group compounds to synthetic transformations, normally requiring expensive/toxic transition metal compounds to proceed.

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3402 INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

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

Expertise type

  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Low Oxidation State Chemistry
  • Chemistry of Metal-metal Bonds
  • Main Group Chemistry
  • Transition Metal Chemistry
  • Chemistry

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Professor

Julian Gale

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Julian Gale
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Professor Julian Gale is a theoretical chemist with an outstanding international reputation for his investigation of the kinetics and mechanisms of crystallisation processes in materials science, mineralogy, and geochemistry. His powerful theoretical methods for exploring the structure, properties and thermodynamics of materials and minerals are the basis for one of the most widely used commercial packages in his field. Working between the fields of chemistry, geochemistry and even with overlaps into theoretical physics, Julian is a remarkably versatile scientist.

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3403 MACROMOLECULAR AND MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
    • 340305 Physical properties of materials
  • 3406 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY (INCL. STRUCTURAL)
    • 340608 Solution Chemistry
  • 3407 THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
    • 340799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified
37 EARTH SCIENCES
  • 3705 GEOLOGY
    • 370505 Mineralogy and Crystallography

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

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Nanomaterials

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Professor

Peter Gill

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Peter Gill
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Peter Gill has made both fundamental and applied contributions to the progress of quantum chemistry. His development of efficient two-electron integral algorithms, perturbation analysis, linear-scaling methodology, DFT functionals, theory of excited states, Coulomb-splitting techniques, and the Q-Chem software package, have significantly changed the research tools of the field. His models for three-electron bonding and dication dissociation have been widely adopted by experimentalists. His insights into electron correlation and the nature of the uniform electron gas are changing the underlying paradigms of density functional theory (DFT). For these and other advances, he has received four international medals.

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3407 THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
    • 340701 Computational chemistry
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5102 ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
    • 510201 Atomic and Molecular Physics
  • 5104 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
    • 510403 Condensed Matter Modelling and Density Functional Theory

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

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Theoretical Chemistry

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Professor

Michelle Coote

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Michelle Coote
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Professor Coote leads the Computer-Aided Chemical Design research group within the Research School of Chemistry and the Australian National University. She is regarded as a pioneer in the development and application of accurate computational chemistry for modelling radical polymerization processes, and is internationally recognised for her contributions to elucidating the mechanisms and defining the kinetics of these complicated processes, explaining the links between structure and reactivity, and designing improved reagents for manipulating their outcome. Her international reputation extends beyond the radical polymer field by virtue her significant contribution to our understanding of other important chemical processes, including polymer autooxidation, nitroxide radical chemistry, and acid-base chemistry. Very recently she has made the landmark discovery of radical orbital switching.

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3403 MACROMOLECULAR AND MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
    • 340306 Polymerisation Mechanisms
  • 3405 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • 340505 Physical Organic Chemistry
  • 3406 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY (INCL. STRUCTURAL)
    • 340601 Catalysis and Mechanisms of Reactions
    • 340604 Electrochemistry
  • 3407 THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
    • 340701 Computational chemistry

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

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Polymers
  • Theoretical Chemistry

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Professor

David Craik

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David Craik
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Professor Craik is a biological chemist who has made important discoveries in the field of structural biology, particularly in the structural elucidation of peptide toxins and proteins having novel topologies. He discovered the cyclotide family of circular knotted proteins and, more generally, has pioneered the field of circular proteins. Circular proteins are characterised by their exceptional stability and professor Craik’s studies have led to their application in drug design and agriculture. His development of an orally active peptide for the treatment of pain is a paradigm-shifting example that has the potential to broadly expand applications of peptides as drugs.

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • NMR Spectroscopy
  • Peptides
  • Structural Biology

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Emeritus Professor

Frances Separovic

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Frances Separovic
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Frances Separovic is an outstanding biophysical chemist who is recognised internationally for her leadership in the field of biological solid-state NMR and membrane assembly. Frances is a pioneer in the structural studies of antibiotic peptides in model cell membranes and developed the technique of using NMR to study peptides in aligned lipid bilayers, which is being used worldwide to study both the structure of membrane proteins and their effects on the membrane. Her innovative research and multidisciplinary approach has advanced our understanding of how peptides insert into membranes and the application of solid-state NMR to a wide range of systems.

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3404 MEDICINAL AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
  • 3499 OTHER CHEMICAL SCIENCES

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

Expertise type

  • Biophysical Chemistry
  • Chemistry
  • NMR Spectroscopy
  • Physical Chemistry

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Professor

Paul Burn

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Paul Burn
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Paul Burn has made a major contribution to science, particularly in the field of organic semiconducting materials. It is a significant achievement in the highly competitive field of organic semiconductors to have been fundamentally involved in discovering and developing a world leading position for two new classes of materials, new characterisation techniques, and device technologies. The discovery of light-emitting polymers and dendrimers has led to worldwide interest in organic semiconductors across a broad range of applications. Burn’s impact is demonstrated by his many publications, the numerous invited talks he has given, the intellectual property portfolio, and subsequent commercialization.

Fields of research

10 TECHNOLOGY
  • 1099 OTHER TECHNOLOGY

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

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Synthesis

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