News & Views item

News & Views item - September 2010

149 Named to Evaluate Submissions for Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA). (September 21, 2010)

The academics who will comprise the eight groups (clusters) to evaluate the submissions made to Excellence in Research for Australia have been designated.

According to the ERA's Website:

The evaluation of data submitted for the 2010 ERA initiative by Australia’s higher education institutions will be undertaken by Research Evaluation Committees (RECs).

RECs are established at the discipline cluster level and comprise distinguished and internationally-recognised researchers with expertise in research evaluation. There are 149 REC members in total appointed from Australia and overseas, and broadly representative of the disciplines within each Cluster.

Cluster 1 Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences	Cluster 2 Humanities and Creative Arts	Cluster 3 Engineering and Environmental Sciences	Cluster 4 Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences
Professor Paul Haddad (Chair) Professor Martin Banwell Professor Peter Battle Professor Nathan Bindoff Professor Michael Dentith Professor Robert (Bob) Gilbert Professor Suzanne Golding Professor Min Gu Professor Brian Kennett Professor Doug MacFarlane Professor John O’Connor Professor William S. Price Professor Timothy Ralph Professor Carl Schiesser Professor Nigel Tapper Professor Anthony Thomas Professor Michael Tobar Professor Robert Vincent Professor Rachel Webster	Professor Moira Gatens (Chair) Professor Su Baker Professor Tony Bennett Professor Gary Bouma Professor Barbara Caine Professor Peter Cryle Professor Kate Darian-Smith A/Professor Dennis Del Favero Professor David Frankel Professor Robert Freestone Professor Bob Goodin Professor Margaret Harris Professor Isabel Karpin Professor Anthony Liddicoat Professor John Macarthur Professor Martina Möllering Professor Wenche Ommundsen Professor Ian Richards Professor Huib Schippers Professor Peta Tait Professor Paolo Tombesi	Professor Mark Randolph (Chair) Professor Rose Amal Professor John Carter Professor Frank Caruso Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte Professor Brian Falzon Professor Kevin Galvin Professor Kenny Kwok Professor Peter Love Professor Alex McBratney Professor Peter Nelson Professor Hung Nguyen Professor Mark Pearcy Professor Elena Pereloma Professor Hugh Possingham Professor Rodica Ramer Professor David Sampson Professor Aleksandar Subic Professor Michael Taylor Professor Stephen Turton Professor J Gordon Williams	Professor Marian Pitts (Chair) Professor Wendy Brady Professor Stephen Brown Professor Victor Callan Professor Ann Capling Professor Janet Chan Professor Richard Cornes Professor David de Vaus Professor Sara Dolnicar Professor Richard Dunford Professor Lisa Farrell Professor Barry Fraser Professor Jiti Gao Professor Chris Gibson Professor Sue Grieshaber Professor Brett Hayes Professor Graeme Hugo Professor Kim Langfield-Smith Professor Ottmar Lipp Professor Bryan Lukas Professor John Ravenhill Professor Terri Seddon Professor Stephen Webb
Cluster 5 Mathematical, Information and Computing Sciences	Cluster 6 Biological and Biotechnological Sciences	Cluster 7 Biomedical and Clinical Health Sciences	Cluster 8 Public and Allied Health Sciences
Professor Joe Chicharo (Chair) Professor Hussein Abbass Professor Jonathan Borwein Professor Tsong Chen Professor Peter Eades Professor Peter Forrester Professor David Green Professor Gernot Heiser Professor Jane Hunter Professor Rod Kennedy Professor David McKenzie Professor Charles Oppenheim Professor Anthony Pettitt Professor Joseph (Josef) Pieprzyk Professor Philip Pollett Professor Kok Lay Teo	Professor Tony Bacic (Chair) Professor Glenn Browning Professor Ross Coppel Professor David Ellsworth Professor Graeme Hammer Professor Nick Hoogenraad Professor Hans Lambers Professor Jonathan Lloyd Professor Jeff Schwartz Professor Rodney Scott Professor Leigh Simmons Professor Ann Simpson Professor Stephen Simpson Professor David Smyth Professor John Snape Professor Mandyam Srinivasan Professor Peter Timms Professor Helen Wallace	Professor Michael Hensley (Chair) Professor Hugh Barrett Professor Judith Black Associate Professor Kate Denton Professor Peter Dunkley Professor Xu-Feng Huang Professor Richard Ivell Professor Vaughan Macefield Professor Fabienne Mackay Professor Ross McKinnon Professor Kathryn Refshauge Professor Christobel Saunders Professor Andrew Somogyi Professor Tania Sorrell Professor Andrew Spencer Professor Joanne Wood	Professor Terry Nolan (Chair) Professor Bruce Armstrong Professor Lesley Barclay Professor Kerry Bennett Professor Alan Bensoussan Professor David Bishop Professor Wendy Brown Professor Lynn Chenoweth Professor Peter Leggat Professor John Lowe Professor John Lynch Professor Robert Newton Professor Tony Worsley Professor Patsy Yates