Paula Johnston will become CFO at the University of Newcastle in June. She joins from James Cook U.

Heiko Spallek is announced as academic lead for digital health and health service informatics in the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Health and Medicine. Julie Redfern is the academic lead for research development. Faculty dean Robyn Ward announced the appointments Friday.

Three Australian based academics are elected fellows of the Combustion Institute, which “promotes and disseminates research activities in all areas of combustion science and technology”; Bassam Dally (University of Adelaide), Bogdan Dlugogorski (Murdoch U) and Hongwei Wu, (Curtin U).