Gordon Jacob Samuels,was a British-Australian lawyer and judge who served as the 36th Governor of New South Wales from 1996 to 2001.
Sir Arvi Hillar Parbo was a business executive who was concurrently chairman of three of Australia's largest companies,Alcoa World Alumina &Chemicals,Munich Re,and Zurich Australian Insurance.
Anders Hallberg is a Swedish pharmaceutical researcher,professor in medicinal chemistry and 2006–2011 Rector Magnificus and Vice Chancellor at Uppsala University.
Hugh Francis Durrant-Whyte is a British-Australian engineer and academic. He is known for his pioneering work on probabilistic methods for robotics. The algorithms developed in his group since the early 1990s permit autonomous vehicles to deal with uncertainty and to localize themselves despite noisy sensor readings using simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).
Alan Simon Finkel is an Australian neuroscientist,inventor,researcher,entrepreneur,educator,policy advisor,and philanthropist. He was Australia’s 8th Chief Scientist from 2016 to 2020. Prior to his appointment,his career included Chancellor of Monash University,President of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE),and CEO and founder of Axon Instruments,and CTO for the electric car start-up Better Place Australia.
Deborah Estrin is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech. She is co-founder of the non-profit Open mHealth and gave a TEDMED talk on small data in 2013.
Lennart Ljung is a Swedish professor in the Chair of Control Theory at Linköping University since 1976. He is known for his pioneering research in system identification,and is regarded as a leading researcher in control theory.
Sir Edward Byrne is a neuroscientist who,as of September 2024,serves as the 4th President of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),located in Thuwal,Saudi Arabia. Byrne served as 20th President and Principal of King's College London from August 2014 until January 2021. and was previously 8th President Vice-Chancellor of Monash University.
K. Srinath Reddy is an Indian physician and the Former President of the Public Health Foundation of India and formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Benjamin John Eggleton,,is Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) at the University of Sydney. He is also Professor in the School of Physics where he leads a research group in integrated photonics,nonlinear optics and smart sensors and serves as co-director of the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN).
Bruce William Stillman is a biochemist and cancer researcher who has served as the Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) since 1994 and President since 2003. He also served as the Director of its NCI-designated Cancer Center for 25 years from 1992 to 2016. During his leadership,CSHL has been ranked as the No. 1 institution in molecular biology and genetics research by Thomson Reuters. Stillman's research focuses on how chromosomes are duplicated in human cells and in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae;the mechanisms that ensure accurate inheritance of genetic material from one generation to the next;and how missteps in this process lead to cancer. For his accomplishments,Stillman has received numerous awards,including the Alfred P. Sloan,Jr. Prize in 2004 and the 2010 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize,both of which he shared with Thomas J. Kelly of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,as well as the 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award for biomedical research,which he shared with John Diffley.
Harold Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University,where he is also the Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a specialist in wireless telecommunications,signal processing and information theory. He has received many honorary degrees and election to national academies. He was also President of IEEE Information Theory Society (1990). He is on the board of directors of the IEEE Foundation.
Emma Letitia Johnston is an Australian marine ecologist and academic. As of 2024 she is the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at the University of Sydney,due to take up her appointment as Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne from February 2025. She was formerly dean of science and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of New South Wales,as well as president of Science &Technology Australia.
Frances Separovic is an Australian biophysical chemist. She is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne,where she taught physical chemistry and trained graduate students in her field. She is credited with developing techniques that utilise nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) to study peptides in lipid bilayers,with applications in the study of the structure of membrane proteins and their effects on membranes. Her more recent research concerns 'the structure and interactions of amyloid peptides from Alzheimer's disease,pore-forming toxins and antibiotic peptides in model biological membranes'.
Peter Philip Gray is a bioengineer who has played a key role in the development of modern industrial biotechnology in Australia. He was professor and head of biotechnology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW),Sydney,from 1988–2003,and was the inaugural director of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at The University of Queensland in Brisbane,Australia from 2003–2015.
Margaret Mary Sheil is an Australian academic and the Vice Chancellor of Queensland University of Technology.
Janice Clare Reid is an Australian academic and medical anthropologist,who has specialised in Aboriginal and refugee health. She was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney from 1998 to 2013.
Judith Ann Whitworth is an Australian medical researcher in the areas of kidney function and blood pressure. Now an emeritus professor,she is the former director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Howard Florey Professor of Medical Research at the Australian National University (ANU).
Vicki Chen is an Australian engineer,a former Executive Dean for the Faculty of Engineering,Architecture and Information Technology at the University of Queensland,and current Provost and Senior Vice-President of the University of Technology Sydney.[10] In 2020 she was elected as the Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.
Grant Robert Sutherland is a retired Australian human geneticist and cytogeneticist. He was the Director,Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics,Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital for 27 years (1975-2002),then became the Foundation Research Fellow there until 2007. He is an Emeritus Professor in the Departments of Paediatrics and Genetics at the University of Adelaide.
