ARC’s new experts

The Australian Research Council has 52 new members, of its 201-member College of Experts – insiders know this already but researchers working on applications may not have noticed who they need to know about

* Peter Anderson (QUT – Indigenous knowledge and research capacity) * Jayashree Arcot (UNSW – analytical chemistry)

* Gabrielle Belz (Uni Queensland –immune systems) * Britta Bienen (UWA- off-shore geotechnical engineering) * Stephen Billett (Griffith U – adult and voced) * Alexander Broom (Uni Sydney – health sociology) * Katherine Buchanan (Deakin U – bird song and other signals)

* Jinjun Chen (Swinburne U – data science)

* Mark Elgar (Uni Melbourne – biosciences) * Abigail Elizur (Uni Sunshine Coast – aquaculture biology) * Anthony Elliott (Uni SA – sociology, globalisation)

* Marcus Foth (QUT – interactive and visual design)

* Gary Froyland (UNSW- applied maths, including chaos theory) * Anna Giacomini (Uni Newcastle – mining and civil engineering safety) * Philip Giffard (Charles Darwin U – medical research) * Bronwyn Gillanders (Uni Adelaide – biological sciences) * Michael Gillings (Macquarie U- genetic diversity, evolution)

* Robert Harvey (Uni Sunshine Coast – biomedical science) * Christopher Hillard (Uni Sydney – history, including modern Britain and Europe) * Yijiao Jiang (Macquarie U – green chemistry, renewable energy) * Katherine Johnson (Uni Melbourne – developmental cognitive neuroscience) * Anna Johnston (Uni Queensland – colonial, postcolonial studies)

* Martina Linnenluecke (Macquarie U – corporate sustainability) * Yun Liu (ANU – functional materials) * Jason Monty (Uni Melbourne – fluid mechanics) * Dietmar Muller (Uni Sydney – plate techtonics, geodynamics) * Michael Ostwald (UNSW – architectural analysis)

* Anna Paradowska (Uni Sydney – advanced structure materials) * Sridevan Parameswaran (UNSW – hardware, software co-design) * Helen Partridge (Deakin U – information and technology in learning) * Ekaterina Pas (Monash U – computational chemistry) * Alice Pebay (Uni Melbourne – neurodegenerative diseases of eye and brain) * Ingrid Piller (Macquarie U – sociolinguistics) * Steven Prawer (Uni Melbourne – nanoscience and neuroscience)

* Kim Rasmussen (Uni Sydney – structural engineering)  * Alan Rowan (Uni Queensland – interaction of cells with nanostructured materials/surfaces) * Sarah Russell (Swinburne U – immunology and cell biology) * John Scott (QUT – criminology, sociology) * Kompal Sinha (Macquarie U – health and development economics) * Helen Skouteris (Monash U – health services research) * Timothy Smith (Uni Sunshine Coast – coastal management and climate change) * Willy Susilo (Uni Wollongong – cryptography and network security)

* Ngamta Thamwattana (Uni Newcastle – granular materials and nanotechnology) * Thom van Dooren (Uni Sydney – environmental humanities) * Kim Vincs (Swinburne U – transformative media technologies in creative arts)

* Hua Wang (Victoria U – AI, data analytics, cyber-security) * Kimberlee Weatherall (Uni Sydney – law and data collection/use) * Dianne Wiley (Uni Sydney – membranes for water treatment and carbon capture) * Asmi Wood (ANU – Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Law, comparative law) * Yixia (Sarah) Zhang (Western Sydney U – multi-disciplinary engineering) * Xiao-Ling Zhao (UNSW – construction using composite materials) * Tianqing Zhu (UTS – network security and data miningO