Professor

Steve Simpson

AC FAA FRS

Steve Simpson
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Stephen Simpson has pioneered major developments at the interface of nutritional physiology, ecology, and behaviour. His groundbreaking discovery of the mechanisms that induce swarming in locusts (studies which span neuro-chemistry through to consequences for individual behaviour and population ecology) has immense practical and conceptual benefits. He has also developed a novel class of state-space models for nutrition. His Geometric Framework (GF) powerfully integrates ideas in this field and, although it arose from extensive experiments on insects, is now being applied in a wide variety of contexts, including the search for dietary causes of human obesity.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Ecology
  • Nutrition
  • Obesity

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Professor

Rick Shine

AM FAA

Rick Shine
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Despite their extraordinary diversity, reptiles have attracted much less study than have the ‘higher’ vertebrates. Professor Shine’s pioneering studies on reptilian ecology and evolution have done much to redress this imbalance. His work spans the spectrum from evolutionary theory through to population ecology and reproductive biology. His conceptual syntheses, empirical reviews, and original studies in both the laboratory and the field, have used reptilian diversity to attack many questions of general importance. In particular, his work has substantially clarified the ways in which microevolutionary processes determine major life-history transitions, and illuminated the ecological role played by reptiles in natural ecosystems.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3109 ZOOLOGY
    • 310901 Animal Behaviour
41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  • 4104 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
    • 410401 Conservation and biodiversity
    • 410407 Wildlife and Habitat Management

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

Expertise type

  • Invasive Species
  • Biology
  • Ecology
  • Reptiles

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Professor

Hyam Rubinstein

FAA

Hyam Rubinstein
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Professor J H Rubinstein is Australia's leading topologist, and one of the country's most outstanding mathematicians. He has made important progress towards the resolution of the spherical space form problem and the recognition problem for the three-sphere, and made important contributions to our understanding of how general three-manifolds can be made up of polyhedra and other pieces. He has also made important contributions to the theory of minimal surfaces and to operations research, by introducing combinatorial techniques and minimax methods to the construction of minimal surfaces, and by introducing techniques from calculus into the combinatorial theory of shortest networks.

Expertise type

  • Mining
  • Optimisation Theory
  • Optimisation Theory
  • Differential Geometry
  • Mathematics
  • Minimal Surfaces
  • Topology

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Professor

Robin Stokes

FAA

Robin Stokes
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Emeritus Professor Robert (Robin) Stokes is internationally known for his research on the thermodynamics and transport properties of solutions with special reference to both the experimental and theoretical aspects of activities, conductances and diffusion in concentrated electrolyte solutions, and of diffusion in liquid mixtures. He has contributed significantly to the understanding of ionic hydration. The author of nearly fifty research papers since 1939, he has been awarded the Meldola Medal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, and the Rennie and Smith Memorial Medals of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Electrolytes
  • Solution Thermodynamics

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Related

Memoir

Robert (Robin) Harold Stokes 1918–2016

Robin Stokes was a chemist and Foundation Professor of Chemistry at the University of New England. He made outstanding contributions to the field of solution thermodynamics.
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Professor Robin Stokes, chemist

Professor Robin Stokes interviewed by Professor Ken Marsh 23 April 2009.Robert (Robin) Stokes was born in England in 1918 and moved to New Zealand at age five. Stokes earned a BSc (1938), MSc (1940) and DSc (1949) from the Auckland University College and a PhD (1950) from the University of Cambridge.
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Professor

Ray Stalker

AO FAA FTSE

Ray Stalker
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Professor Stalker is an expert in the field of very high-speed gas dynamics. He has been associated with the free piston shock tubes at the Australian National University and the University of Queensland, which, since 1970, produce the most energetic streams of gas in the world. The associated theory, instrumentation and data handling have been investigated by Professor Stalker over the past 25 years. This work has resulted in new understanding of shock-wave/boundary layer interactions and numerous other aspects of very high-speed flows useful in designing space vehicles.

Expertise type

  • Space engineering
  • Scramjet
  • Stalker tube
  • Engineering
  • Aeronautics
  • Astronautics

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Related

Memoir

Raymond John Stalker 1930–2014

Ray Stalker was an aerospace engineer who designed the free piston shock tunnel – known as the "Stalker tube" – and designed the first scramjet to produce more thrust than drag, pioneering Australia's hypersonic research program.
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Professor

Sally Smith

FAA

Sally Smith
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Professor Smith is a world authority on the mycorrhizal symbiosis between plants and fungi, and has coauthored the most definitive text on the subject. To attack the very difficult problems this symbiosis presents she has developed many important multidisciplinary collaborations. With them she has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the structure of the plant-fungal interface, of nutrient transfer across it and of the molecular processes involved in forming and controlling the interface. Having made pioneering advances in understanding nutrient transfer in ectomycorrhizal associations, she is now the centre of an exciting attack on the fundamental processes in vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizas.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Roots
  • Symbiotic Fungi

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Related

Memoir

Sarah Elizabeth Smith 1941–2019

Professor Sally Smith was a botanist and mycologist recognised as a world authority on the mycorrhizal symbiosis between plants and fungi.
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Emeritus Professor

Gunnar Öquist

FAA

Gunnar Öquist
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Gunnar Ӧquist, the pre-eminent Swedish plant physiologist, is distinguished for seminal contributions to understanding how plants, algae and cyanobacteria cope with environmental stress, particularly low temperature, high light and iron deficiency. He continues to elucidate novel molecular mechanisms underlying photosynthetic responses during cold acclimation of evergreens and crop plants, and to make significant discoveries concerning photoinhibition. He has worked closely with Australian scientists, in CSIRO and his laboratory (Umeå), served on ANU advisory boards, and contributed to an AAS-sponsored forum on nurturing creativity in research. With the Umeå Plant Science Center, a Swedish genomics centre, and as Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, he now has opportunities to enhance links between our Academies, and the networking of Australian research with Sweden and the European Union, thereby strengthening the excellent contacts he has sustained between our countries.

Expertise type

  • Plant Biology
  • Biology

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Professor

Terry Tao

FAA FRS

Terry Tao
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At just 29 years of age, Adelaide born Terry Tao had already made extraordinary contributions to the mathematical sciences. His work on a wide variety of problems in mathematical analysis, and on the existence of arithmetic sequences of primes, has been recognised by the conferring of honours of great distinction. More generally, his discoveries have revitalised and energised mathematics on a very broad front, from number theory to mathematical physics and statistics. Throughout he has maintained close contact with Australian mathematics and Australian mathematicians, enriching science in this country through his striking achievements.

Expertise type

  • Algebraic Combinatorics
  • Combinatorial Mathematics
  • Mathematics
  • Combinatorics

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Professor

Hiro Suga

FAA

Hiro Suga
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Professor Hiroaki Suga is internationally recognised for his ground-breaking work developing RNA-based catalysts that facilitate a new method for discovering bioactive peptides. His work involves replicating the processes of the ribosome in the laboratory to allow for artificial peptide and protein translation. His RNA catalyst, the flezixyme, allows unnatural amino acids to be incorporated into peptides and proteins, a revolutionary development that enables the production of a huge variety of molecules that could not be created in nature. Using the power of the flexizyme, Professor Suga developed RaPID, an innovative platform that facilitates the screening of billions of peptides against a protein target to find binders. RaPID is now widely used around the world to find potential drugs for important protein targets.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY

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

Expertise type

  • Biological Chemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Ribozyme
  • Peptides

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Professor Sir

Fraser Stoddart

FAA FRS Nobel Laureate

Fraser Stoddart
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Sir Fraser Stoddart was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. Sir Fraser is one of the few chemists during the past 35 years to have created a new field of chemistry, namely, one in which the mechanical bond is a pre-eminent feature of molecular compounds. He pioneered the development of the use of molecular recognition in template-directed protocols for the synthesis of two-state mechanically interlocked molecules, which have been employed as molecular switches in the fabrication of molecular electronic devices and in the design and synthesis of artificial molecular machines.

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3403 MACROMOLECULAR AND MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
    • 340303 Nanochemistry

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

Expertise type

  • Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Electrochemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Coordination Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Physical Organic Chemistry
  • Transition Metal Chemistry

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