Australian Council of Learned Academies
Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Research
Emeritus Professor Russel LansburyAO FASSA Russell Lansbury is Emeritus Professor of Work and Employment Relations at Sydney University Business School where he was Associate Dean, Research. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Harvard and MIT. His early research was on the impact of…
Professor Huw PriceFBA FAHA Huw Price is Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. Before moving to Cambridge in 2011 he was ARC Federation Fellow and Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. In Cambridge he is Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for…
Professor Nikola KasabovFRSNZ Nikola K Kasabov is the Director of the Knowledge Engineering & Discovery Research Centre and Personal Chair of Knowledge Engineering in the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Science at AUT He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and…
Professor Jane HallFASSA Director of the Australian Council of Learned Academies Limited, Appointed 2019 Jane Hall is Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Director, Strategy in the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation at the University of Technology Sydney. She received the National Health and Medical Research Council Outstanding Contribution Award in 2017. She…
Professor Anthony ElliottFASSA Professor Elliott is Dean of External Engagement at the University of South Australia, where he is Executive Director of the Hawke EU Centre and Research Professor of Sociology. Professor Elliott is also Global Professor of Sociology (Visiting) in the Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University, Japan and Visiting Professor of Sociology…
Professor Iven MareelsFTSE Since February 2018, Professor Mareels is the Lab Director, IBM Research Australia. He is an honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this he was the Dean of Engineering at the University of Melbourne (2007-2018). He received the PhD in Systems Engineering from the Australian National University in 1987, and…
Professor Fiona WoodAM FAHMS Professor Wood has been a burns surgeon and researcher for the past 20 years and is Director of the Burns Service of Western Australia. She is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital (previously at Royal Perth Hospital) and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, co-founder of the first skin cell…
Professor James Maclaurin Professor Maclaurin is a member of the Department of Philosophy and Associate Dean for Research in the Humanities at the University of Otago. He received his Doctorate in Philosophy of Science from the Australian National University. A longstanding advocate for Humanities education, he was instrumental in the development of the University of…
Professor Neil LevyFAHA Professor Neil Levy is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. Before coming to Macquarie, he was Head of Neuroethics at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He works, or has worked, in many…
Professor Toby WalshFAA Professor Walsh is a leading researcher in AI. He was named by The Australian as a rock star of Australia’s digital revolution. He is Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW, leads the Algorithmic Decision Theory group at Data61, Australia’s Centre of Excellence for ICT Research, and is Guest Professor at TU…