2004 Federation Fellows Announced. (June 16 2004)

    The recipients of the third round of Federation Fellowships were announced today by the Minister for Education, Science and Training, Brendan Nelson. Up to 125 Federation Fellowships with a standard tenure of five years are available under Backing Australia’s Ability. So far 75 have been awarded since 2002.

    This year for the first time the number of foreign recipients (5) and returning expatriates (10) have outnumbered the number of awardees resident in Australia. Each Fellow will receive an indexed salary of around $235,000 for each of the five years through federal government funding. As a minimum, host institutions undertake to match that amount.
 

Professor Mark Bradford: Advanced analysis, behaviour and design of steel and steel-concrete composite engineering structures subjected to elevated temperatures.
Current institution: The University of New South Wales.
Host institution: The University of New South Wales.

Professor Richard Brent: Exploring the Frontiers of Feasible Computation.
Current institution: Oxford University.
Host institution: The Australian National University.

Associate Professor Ashley Bush: The Role of Metals in the Biology of the Ageing Brain.
Current institution: Massachusetts General Hospital, and the University of Melbourne.
Host institution: The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria.

Professor David Chalmers: The contents of consciousness.
Current institution: University of Arizona.
Host institution: The Australian National University.

Professor Alan Cooper: Using ancient DNA to understand Australia's past and manage its future.
Current institution: Oxford University.
Host institution: The University of Adelaide.

Professor Stephen Crain: Logic and language: Foundations of cognitive growth.
Current institution: University of Maryland.
Host institution: Macquarie University.

Professor Simon Grant: Optimism, Pessimism and Confidence - Their economic impacts.
Current institution: Rice University.
Host institution: The Australian National University.

Professor Paul Griffiths: Biohumanities: Philosophical, Historical, and Socio-Cultural Studies of Contemporary Bioscience.
Current institution: University of Pittsburgh.
Host institution: University of Queensland.

Professor David Hill: Complex Networks: Dynamics, Optimisation and Control.
Current institution: City University of Hong Kong.
Host institution: The Australian National University.

Professor Peter Hodgson: Advanced products through multi-scale microstructure engineering.
Current institution: Deakin University.
Host institution: Deakin University.

Professor Ary Hoffman: Evaluating the adaptive potential of organisms to respond to environmental change.
Current institution: La Trobe University.
Host institution: The University of Melbourne.

Professor Stephen Hyde: Self-assembly and complexity: networks and patterns from materials to markets.
Current institution: The Australian National University.
Host institution: The Australian National University.

Professor Chennupati Jagadish: Ordered Semiconductor Nanostructures for Electronics and Photonics Applications.
Current institution: The Australian National University.
Host institution: The Australian National University.

Professor Alan Mark: Self-organisation in (bio) molecular systems: Simulating the folding and aggregation of peptides, proteins and lipids.
Current institution: University of Groningen.
Host institution: The University of Queensland.

Professor Michael Nielsen: Principles of Quantum Information Science.
Current institution: The University of Queensland.
Host institution: The University of Queensland.

Professor Philip Pettit: The Foundation, Role, and Design of Democracy.
Current institution: Princeton University.
Host institution: The University of Sydney.

Professor Leigh Simmons: The evolution of female mating frequency and its consequences.
Current institution: The University of Western Australia.
Host institution: The University of Western Australia.

Professor Stephen Simpson: Integrative behaviour: a new synthesis.
Current institution: Oxford University.
Host institution: The University of Sydney.

Professor Scott Sloan: Geostructural stability analysis with adaptive mesh refinement.
Current institution: University of Newcastle.
Host institution: University of Newcastle.

Professor Steven Smith: Metabolomic and genetic approaches to the discovery of genes that direct carbon partitioning in plants.
Current institution: University of Edinburgh.
Host institution: The University of Western Australia.

Professor Mathias Trau: Beyond Microarrays: Nano-Scaled Devices for High-Throughput Biomolecular Sensing.
Current institution: The University of Queensland.
Host institution: The University of Queensland.

Dr Jill Trewhella: Molecular Mechanisms of Biochemical Regulation: Neutron and X-ray Scattering Studies.
Current institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Host institution: The University of Sydney.   

Associate Professor Howard Wiseman: Quantum Measurement, Control and Information: Forging Links to Underpin Quantum Technology.
Current institution: Griffith University.
Host institution: Griffith University.

Associate Professor Rachel Wong: Assembly of neural circuits during development.
Current institution: Washington University School of Medicine.
Host institution: The University of Queensland.

Professor Bernard Wood: Origin and Evolution of the Earth's Chemical Reservoirs.
Current institution: University of Bristol.
Host institution: Macquarie University.