Learned Academies Fellows
The learned academies are prestigious bodies, membership of which reflects positively on the individual academic and their institution. Fellows of the academies help to promote the value of their discipline to the community and provide role-models to other members of the University in the pursuit of academic excellence.
While each academy has a specific nomination and approval process, the fundamental characteristics of academy Fellows include distinguished achievements, ground-breaking research, excellence in the field, scholarly distinction or advancements, impact of scholarship, and outstanding leadership.
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Prest
Wilfrid Prest was educated at the University of Melbourne (BA Hons.), and the University of Oxford (DPhil, Modern History); after a brief stint as publishing trainee in London, he came to a lectureship in the Department of History in 1966.
Professor Catherine Speck
Catherine Speck Professor Emerita of Art History and Curatorship, and a member of the History Department, with a PhD in Visual Arts from Monash University and a Masters Degree in Art Education from the University of Canberra. Her research areas are in Australian Art broadly conceived including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, and its borderless and transnational aspects such as expatriate artists including Australian impressionist artists in France in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, and colonial, modern, and contemporary Australian art.
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Associate Professor Peter Davis
Peter Davis is a classicist who works primarily on political aspects of Latin literature in the early Roman empire. He is best known for his work on Ovid, Seneca's tragedies, and Flavian epic.
Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
Professor Anton Van Den Hengel
Anton van den Hengel is the founding Director of The Australian Institute for Machine Learning, a Chief Investigator of the Australian Centre of Excellence in Robotic Vision, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. His current research interests include Deep Learning, vision and language problems, interactive image-based modelling, large-scale video surveillance, and medical machine learning.
Professor Peter Dowd
Professor Peter Dowd has more than 45 years experience in academic research, teaching and administration and in consulting to industry. His research interests include geostatistical modelling and prediction in mineral resource, petroleum reservoir and environmental applications; geological modelling and mathematical geology; stochastic modelling and quantified risk assessment in natural resource and environmental applications; definitions and reporting of ore reserves; mineral economics; financial analysis and modelling; operational research; and computer-aided mine design.
Australian Academy of Science
Professor Shizhang Qiao
Dr Qiao joined the School of Chemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide in 2012 as a professor (the inaugural Chair of Nanotechnology). He is the founding Director of Centre for Materials in Energy and Catalysis. Professor Qiao’s research expertise is in nanomaterials for new energy technologies (electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, batteries, fuel cell).
Professor Zaiping Guo
Professor Guo is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering & Advanced Materials, The University of Adelaide. Her research focuses on the design and application of electrode and electrolyte materials for energy storage and conversion, including rechargeable batteries, hydrogen storage, and fuel cells.
Professor Jozef Gecz
Professor Jozef Gecz is Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation Honorary Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability and Australian NH&MRC Senior Principal Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.
He is the founding head of the Neurogenetics Research Program located at the Medical School, the University of Adelaide.
Professor Ian Reid
Professor Ian Reid is the Head of the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, and the senior researcher at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning.
Professor Grant Sutherland
Professor Sutherland's research focused on human cytogenetics and molecular genetics, the human genome project and its impact on medicine. He had a particular interest in fragile sites on human chromosomes.
Professor James Paton
Professor James Paton is currently a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Professor of Microbiology, and Director, Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (RCID), School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide.
As Director of the RCID, he brings together established and emerging researchers with synergistic skills to accelerate basic research into bacterial infectious disease pathogenesis, and translate basic discoveries into improved health outcomes.
Professor Michael Bruce
Professor Bruce is one of the foremost exponents in Australia of the chemistry of compounds containing transition metal to carbon bonds, in which field he has achieved an international reputation. He and his co-workers have developed rational syntheses of metal carbonyl clusters, especially of ruthenium, and have structurally analysed key compounds.
Professor Emeritus Robert Vincent
Robert Vincent is an Professor Emeritus in the School of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Adelaide. His major expertise is in the study of atmosphere using radars and other techniques such as superpressure balloons. The work includes the development of hardware and data analysis techniques. A secondary aim is study of methane release from natural and manmade sources and impact on climate.
Professor Anthony Thomas
Professor Thomas is recognised internationally on the borderline of nuclear and particle physics. He aim to understand the structure of matter at its deepest level. This includes the interactions of quarks and gluons and their role in nuclear structure and the equation of state of the most dense matter in the Universe, found in the cores of neutron stars.
Australian Academy of Law
Professor Andrew Stewart
Andrew is the John Bray Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide. His main interests lie in employment law and workplace relations, contract law and intellectual property. His most recent publications include new editions of Creighton and Stewart's Labour Law, Stewart's Guide to Employment Law and Intellectual Property in Australia.
Professor Dale Stephens
Professor Dale Stephens CSM is a Captain in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve who spent over 20 years as a permanent officer in the Royal Australian Navy before taking up his appointment at Adelaide Law School. His research aims to identify the permissions and limits relating to the laws pertaining to national security and to inform debate on policy choices that are available to Australia under this legal framework.
Professor Paul Babie
P T Babie is an expert in property theory, property law, and law and theology. His research, throughout his career, has asked what property is and how, if at all, it can be justified. He considers those questions from legal theoretical and from theological perspectives.
Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
Professor Robert Norman
Robert Norman holds a personal chair as Professor for Reproductive and Periconceptual Medicine at the University of Adelaide and is a subspecialist in reproductive medicine (CREI) and in endocrine biochemistry (FRCPA). He was Director of the Robinson Research Institute at the University of Adelaide from 2008 to 2013.
Professor Michael Horowitz
Professor Michael Horowitz was appointed to a Personal Chair at the University of Adelaide in 1995 and has been the Director of the Endocrine and Metabolic Unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital since 1997. His research activities are almost exclusively clinically based and relate primarily to gastrointestinal motor, sensory, and hormonal function, particularly in the context of diabetes mellitus, appetite regulation, critical illness and aging.
Professor Jozef Gecz
Professor Jozef Gecz is Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation Honorary Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability and Australian NH&MRC Senior Principal Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.
He is the founding head of the Neurogenetics Research Program located at the Medical School, the University of Adelaide.
Professor Prashanthan Sanders
Professor Sanders is a clinical academic based at the University of Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Insititute. He is the Director of the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the University of Adelaide; Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing at the Royal Adelaide Hospital; and the Group Leader for Heart Rhythm Disorders at SAHMRI.
Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Professor Jonathan Pincus
Jonathan Pincus is Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide, and an independent economic researcher and consultant. From 2002 through 2007, Jonathan was Principal Adviser Research at the [Australian] Productivity Commission in both Melbourne and Canberra. At Adelaide University in the 1990s, he was Professor and Head of Economics and Convenor of Academic Board. He has published scholarly works mainly in public choice, fiscal federalism and economic history.
Emerita Professor Carol Johnson
Carol Johnson is an Emerita Professor of Politics and International Relations. Her main research interests are in Australian politics (including international comparisons), the politics of gender and sexuality, the politics of emotion and analyses of ideology and discourse.
Professor Lisa Hill
Before taking up her position as Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, Lisa was an ARC Senior Fellow (University of Adelaide) and a Fellow in the Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. Her current areas of interest are: political theory, intellectual history, issues in electoral law and selected issues in Australian Politics. Lisa is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia.
Emeritus Professor Kym Anderson
Kym Anderson is the George Gollin Professor Emeritus in the School of Economics and Public Policy, foundation Executive Director of the Wine Economics Research Centre, and formerly foundation Executive Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide, where he has been affiliated since 1984.
Emerita Professor Christine Beasley
Chris Beasley is Emerita Professor at the University of Adelaide, and is located in the university's Department of Politics and International Relations. Emerita Prof Beasley primarily taught, before her retirement in 2018, in three areas of Politics—social and political theory, gender, masculinity and sexuality studies, and cultural politics. Her academic background includes interdisciplinary work in both Social Sciences and Humanities.
Professor Susan Magarey
Susan Magarey AM, FASSA, PhD, has degrees in English Literature and History from the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University. She was the Director of the Research Centre for Women's Studies at Adelaide University (1983-2000), where she is now Professor Emerita in History.
Professor Adam Graycar
Adam Graycar has had careers in both academia and government. He has held professorial positions at Flinders University, National University of Singapore, the Australian National University, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, and University of New South Wales. While at ANU he was Director of the Research School of Social Sciences, and the founder of the Transnational Research Institute on Corruption.
Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Prest
Wilfrid Prest was educated at the University of Melbourne (BA Hons.), and the University of Oxford (DPhil, Modern History); after a brief stint as publishing trainee in London, he came to a lectureship in the Department of History in 1966.
Professor Peter Sutton
Peter Sutton is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide (School of Earth & Environmental Sciences) and the South Australian Museum. Peter is an anthropologist and linguist who has lived and worked with Aboriginal people in remote areas of Cape York Peninsula and the Northern Territory, but also in urban and rural centres, since 1969.