Professor Catherine Waldby

Professor Catherine WaldbyFASSA Professor Catherine Waldby is Director of the Research School of the Social Sciences at the Australian National University, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Social Science and Medicine at King’s College, London . Prior to this, she was Professorial Future Fellow in the School of Social  and Political Sciences at the…

Associate Professor Claudia Vickers

Associate Professor Claudia Vickers A/Professor Vickers holds dual roles as Director of the CSIRO Synthetic Biology  Future Science Platform at CSIRO and Group Leader in the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland (UQ). She completed her PhD in cereal crop biotechnology at CSIRO Plant Industry and UQ in 2004. She…

Professor Ian Small

Professor Ian SmallFAA Professor Ian Small’s research interests into the growth and development of living organisms is largely determined by the genes they contain, but converting the genetic information into biological activity requires intermediary processes involving ribonucleic acid (RNA) and proteins that bind to and process this RNA. Professor Small aims to understand how the…

Professor Lesley Head

Professor Lesley HeadFASSA FAHA Professor Head is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) at the University of Wollongong. She is a geographer who has been President of the Institute of Australian Geographers and chaired the Geography committee of the Australian Academy of Science. Most recently,…

Professor Robert C Williamson

Professor Robert WilliamsonFAA Professor Robert (Bob) Williamson’s interest in technology started at age eight tinkering with electronics, and in the 1970s operated a ham radio station (call-sign VK4ARW). He studied electrical engineering at QUT, obtained a Master of Engineering Science and PhD (in electrical Engineering) from the University of Queensland and since 1990 has been…

Professor Libby Robin

Professor Libby RobinFAHA Libby Robin FAHA, is Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, and Convenor of the Australian Environmental Humanities Hub. She is Affiliated Professor of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm and the National Museum of Australia. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rachel Carson…

Dr Thomas Maschmeyer

Dr Thomas MaschmeyerFAA FTSE Dr. Thomas Maschmeyer, is Professor of Chemistry and serves as Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology (AINST ) and of the Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis for Sustainability (School of Chemistry). He is Honorary Distinguished Professor at the University of Cardiff and Honorary CSIRO Research Fellow. In 2011…

Professor John Loughhead

Professor John LoughheadOBE FREng FTSE Professor John Loughhead is Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He was previously Executive Director of the UK Energy Research Centre and prior to that Corporate Vice President of the ALSTOM group. John is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering…

Professor R. Quentin Grafton

Professor R. Quentin GraftonFASSA GAICD Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics, Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP) at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social…

Professor Maria Forsyth

Professor Maria ForsythFAA Maria Forsyth graduated with a PhD in Chemistry from Monash University, Australia in 1990 and received a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on lithium and sodium battery electrolytes at Northwestern University in Evanston, USA. She returned to Australian in 1993 and shortly thereafter joined the Department of Materials Engineering at Monash University…