The Australian Research Council’s laureate appointments for 2020 were announced yesterday –  five of 15 are from UNSW

This year’s fellows are;

Elaine Holmes (Murdoch U) – host-microbiome signalling in ageing

Toby Walsh (UNSW) – trustworthy AI

Robert Williamson (ANU) – ethical machine learning

Alison Bashford (UNSW) – population policy in modern world history

Karl Vilonen (Uni Melbourne) – basic symmetries in mathematics

Catherine Lovelock (Uni Queensland) – blue carbon for coastal restoration

Martina Stenzel (UNSW) – nanoparticles in therapeutic drugs

David James (Uni Sydney) – genetics and lifestyle of healthy ageing

Loeske Kruuk (ANU) – changing environments for wild animals in Australia

Andrew Millar (UWA) – proteins in crops

Huanting Wang (Monash U) – advanced membranes for renewable energy

Jochen Mueller (Uni Queensland) – minimising adverse impacts of chemical exposure

Maureen Dollard (Uni SA) – human-centred workplaces, (scroll down)

Ross Buckley (UNSW) – financial data in Australia’s legal/regulatory systems

Dennis del Favero (UNSW) – using digital systems to depict unpredictable scenarios (for example, wildfire) separate to human-centred depiction

Grants range from $2.6m to $3.7m for salary supplements, four postdocs and lab funding

Sweet and Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellows

Catherine Lovelock (Uni Queensland) is the 2020 Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow. She will take the Flying Scientists programme, promoting STEM to girls and women, to regional centres.

Maureen Dollard (Uni SA), takes the double, also being Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow. She will lead 50 woman who are PhD students to develop research strategies

The fellowships are worth $100 000 over five year.