Professor

Tim Ralph

FAA

Tim Ralph
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Timothy Ralph is internationally acclaimed for his pioneering theories in quantum information science. These include the theoretical development of secure communication systems based on quantum key distribution, and the demonstration of multi-qubit optical quantum computing algorithms. Ralph has instigated a whole new field of continuous variable quantum key distribution, with influential new techniques in relativistic quantum information. His theoretical proposals have led to the world’s first demonstration of a two qubit optical gate and subsequent demonstrations of multi-qubit behaviour. As a highly sought after theorist internationally, Ralph is well-known for his foundational theories and his ability to work closely with experimentalists to realise their outcomes.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 205 OPTICAL PHYSICS
  • 5101 ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES
    • 510105 General Relativity and Gravitational Waves
  • 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

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

Expertise type

  • Quantum Optics
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Communication
  • Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
  • Relativistic Quantum Information
  • Physics

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Professor

Jim Quirk

AO FAA

Jim Quirk
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Professor James (Jim) Quirk is distinguished for his studies of the properties of soil which are determined by the presence of constituents of colloidal dimensions such as the clay minerals and certain metallic oxides. The properties which are of particular importance include aggregation, porosity, and permeability, and ionic absorption, desorption and exchange. He has paid special attention to the micro-crystalline structure of the clay minerals in so far as these have been revealed by absorption phenomena. Of particular interest has been the recognition of "domains" in these micro-structures. These concepts have been extended to the soil-plant root interface with reference to the movement of nutrients from the soil to the plant. His work is characterised by the use of modern theoretical and practical tools of research.

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Clays
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Soil Science

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Sir

Robert Price

KBE FAA

Robert Price
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Memoir

James Robert Price 1912–1999

Sir Robert Price was an organic chemist who ran the extraordinarily productive and cooperative Australian Phytochemical Survey. He made significant contributions to public sector research and chemistry through his leadership of CSIRO and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
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Professor

Bob Pressey

FAA FRS

Bob Pressey
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Pressey is recognised internationally for establishing the field of systematic conservation planning and continues to be one of its leading innovators. He led a world-wide shift towards translating the field’s concepts and techniques into actions on the ground, facilitated by his unique combination of scientific leadership and agency experience. His main scientific contributions are: new concepts and techniques that have increased the effectiveness of conservation planning across the world; a long series of intellectual advances that have progressively defined best-practice; conceptual and technical innovations related to the dynamics of biodiversity and human activities; and ground-breaking, intuitive software tools.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3103 ECOLOGY

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

Expertise type

  • Biodiversity
  • Biology
  • Conservation Biology
  • Ecology

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Professor

Ren Potts

AO FAA FTSE

Ren Potts
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Professor Potts' early work was concerned with the statistical mechanics of Ising lattices, where he has made a variety of important original contributions, including the determination of partition functions and correlations for special models. His name has been given to the Potts model, which is the subject of much interest today. Most of his later work has been concerned with Operations Research, a subject on which he has become a world authority. Professor Potts has been an Australian pioneer in the application of operations research to industry. Over a period of many years he developed special methods in operations research and successfully applied them to problems in Australian industries and Government utilities.

Expertise type

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Mathematics
  • Operations Research
  • Transportation Science

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Memoir

Renfrey Burnard Potts 1925–2005

Professor Ren Potts was a mathematician who made outstanding contributions to both theory and diverse applications, especially operations research. His work in statistical mechanics, and the 'Potts Model', was particularly influential.
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Ian Potter

FAA

Ian Potter
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Memoir

William Ian Potter 1902–1994

Sir Ian Potter was a financier, stockbroker and philanthropist known for his support of the arts, science and education.
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Professor

Bob Porter

AC FAA

Bob Porter
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Professor Robert (Bob) Porter is distinguished for sustained and scholarly investigation of the central nervous mechanisms responsible for control of voluntary muscle, especially the role of the pyramidal pathway between cerebral cortex and motor nerve cells. His research has included comparative mammalian studies, precise analysis of the effects on single motor nerve cells of signals from the cerebral cortex, from interneurones and from muscle sense organs, and the biophysical basis of their interaction at the cellular level. His work is characterised by imaginativeness and outstanding technical skill, well illustrated by his achievement in recording from single brain cells in conscious animals performing learned tasks, experiements now yielding a rich harvest of information about the neural code-system used by the brain in its control of movement.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3209 NEUROSCIENCES
    • 320903 Central Nervous System
4207 SPORTS SCIENCE AND EXCERCISE
  • 420703 Motor Control

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

Expertise type

  • Neurophysiology
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Epilepsy
  • MRI
  • Brain Function
  • Brain Structure
  • Medical Sciences
  • Neuroscience

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Professor

Jim Pittard

AM FAA

Jim Pittard
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The work of Professor James (Jim) Pittard is characterised by the insight he has shown in obtaining significant results in the field of biochemical genetics by his choice of problems to give meaningful results, his ingenuity, and the thoroughness with which he applies his critical abilities, both to his own results and those of others. Pittard's influence on biochemcial genetics has been important in the Australian scene.

Expertise type

  • Genomics
  • Bacteria
  • Biology
  • Microbiology

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Conversation with scientist

Professor Jim Pittard, microbial geneticist

Professor Jim Pittard interviewed by Professor Michael Hynes in 2011. Alfred James (Jim) Pittard was born in Ballarat in 1932. He completed secondary school at the Ballarat Church of England Grammar School in 1949.
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Professor

Andy Pitman

AO FAA

Andy Pitman
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Andrew Pitman is an international authority on the role of land surface processes in the climate system including their influence on regional rainfall and temperature extremes. His findings have transformed our appreciation of land cover from a passive boundary condition to a dynamic and influential component of the climate system, including climate extremes. As a direct consequence of Pitman’s work, there is now an accepted role of land cover change in regional climate projections, and a new field devoted to utilising land cover to mitigate the worst impacts of regional climate extremes.

Fields of research

37 EARTH SCIENCES
  • 3701 ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
370201 Climate Change Processes

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

Expertise type

  • Climate
  • Climate Science
  • Global Ecology
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Variability
  • Land Use
  • Earth Sciences

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Professor

Michael Pitman

OBE FAA

Michael Pitman
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Professor Pitman is distinguished for his research on ion transport in plants, particularly relating the activity of the plant as a whole to mechanisms at the cellular and membrane levels. He was first to develop techniques to estimate ion fluxes in higher plant tissues. His work has led to explanations of the discrimination between sodium and potassium, to models for ion transport through the root to the shoot and to increased understanding of plants under salt or water stress. He played a leading role in introducing the Academy's "Web of Life" biology course to Australian schools.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Plant Biology

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