# Australian Laureate Fellowship

The Australian Laureate Fellowship is an Australian professorial research fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council. Fellows are chosen each year for five-year awards. In 2023 8 industry-focused Laureate Fellowships were awarded for the first time.

## Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Georgina Sweet fellowships

In 2010, the Australian Research Council created the Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowships. The Kathleen Fitzpatrick fellowship is named for Kathleen Fitzpatrick and honours a woman candidate in a humanities field. The Georgina Sweet fellowship is named for Georgina Sweet and honours a woman in a science or technology discipline. In addition to the funding from the standard Australian laureate fellowship, both of these named fellowships include an additional $20,000 per year to promote women in research.

## Recipients
### 2024

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Derek Abbott | Ultrasensitive terahertz sensing | University of Adelaide | |
| Andrew Baker | Stalagmites and groundwater | University of New South Wales | |
| Gabrielle Belz | Immune response in vertebrates | University of Queensland | |
| Nathaniel Bindoff | Earth's response to emission reductions | University of Tasmania | |
| Alan Collins | Mapping Earth's surface | University of Adelaide | |
| Yihong Du | Partial differential equations | University of New England | |
| Christopher Gibson | Decarbonisation transitions | University of Wollongong | |
| Michael Kearney | Pests and climate change | University of Melbourne | |
| Liza Lim | Musical approach to climate change | University of Sydney | |
| James McCaw | Mathematical modelling for infectious diseases | University of Melbourne | |
| Andrea Morello | Quantum computing | University of New South Wales | |
| Jacqueline Peel | international law for corporate climate accountability | University of Melbourne | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship |
| Sharon Robinson | Future of Antarctic ecosystems | University of Wollongong | |
| Jeffrey Walker | Surveillance capability for natural disasters | Monash University | |
| Hongxia Wang | Molecular engineering for solar cell development | Queensland University of Technology | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship |
| Michael Ward | Understanding the wild domestic animal interface | University of Sydney | |
| Thomas Wernberg | Great Southern Reef | University of Western Australia | |

### 2023

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Xuemei Bai | Zero carbon cities | Australian National University | |
| Jacqueline Batley | Disease resistance in plants | University of Western Australia | |
| Janeen Baxter | Gender equality | University of Queensland | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship |
| Phillip Cassey | Wildlife crime | The University of Adelaide | Industry Laureate |
| Joshua Cinner | Coral reef fisheries | James Cook University | |
| Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem | Glass fibers | The University of Adelaide | Industry Laureate |
| Terry Flew | Digital technologies and societal trust | University of Sydney | |
| Timothy Fletcher | Stormwater management | The University of Melbourne | Industry Laureate |
| Gary Froyland | Dynamical systems and data | University of New South Wales | |
| Alexander Hamilton | Quantum computing | The University of New South Wales | Industry Laureate |
| Matthew Hornsey | Carbon transition | University of Queensland | |
| Jane McAdam | Emergency evacuations and law | University of New South Wales | |
| Nam-Trung Nguyen | Microfluidics, wearable medical devices | Griffith University | |
| Sarah Pink | Digital economy and net zero transition | Monash University | |
| Shizhang Qiao | Battery storage | The University of Adelaide | Industry Laureate |
| Veena Sahajwalla | E-waste recycling | The University of New South Wales | Industry Laureate |
| Jennifer Smith-Merry | The National Disability Insurance Scheme | The University of Sydney | Industry Laureate |
| Catherine Stampfl | Renewable energy | University of Sydney | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship |
| Willy Susilo | Cryptography | University of Wollongong | |
| Gerhard Swiegers | Green hydrogen | The University of Sydney | Industry Laureate |
| Gene Tyson | Predictive understanding of the human microbiome | Queensland University of Technology | |
| Shaobin Wang | Nonmetals for green catalysis | University of Adelaide | |
| Geordie Williamson | Fundamental symmetries of discrete structures | University of Sydney | |
| Yusuke Yamauchi | Conductive porous catalysts | University of Queensland | |
| Alpha Yap | Tissue mechanics and cell sociology | University of Queensland | |

### 2022

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Timothy Bedding | Asteroseismology | University of Sydney | |
| Larissa Behrendt | First Nations | University of Technology Sydney | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship |
| David Bowman | Bushfires | University of Tasmania | |
| Cyrille Boyer | Light-Driven manufacturing | University of New South Wales | |
| Anne Castles | Literacy in adolescence | Macquarie University | |
| Simon Driver | Dark matter | University of Western Australia | |
| Joanne Etheridge | Electron microscopy | Monash University | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship |
| Alexander Fornito | Human brain | Monash University | |
| Andrew Hassell | mathematics of wave motion | Australian National University | |
| Mark Krumholz | supercomputing | Australian National University | |
| Lidia Morawska | air quality in buildings | Queensland University of Technology | |
| Michael Stumpf | mathematical biology | University of Melbourne | |
| Karen Thorpe | early childhood learning | University of Queensland | |
| Matt Trau | nano-manufacturing | University of Queensland | |
| Peter Veth | Traditional Custodians' heritage protection | University of Western Australia | |
| Nicolas Voelcker | wearable sensors | Monash University | |

### 2021

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Matthew Barnett | Metal recycling | Deakin University | |
| Axel Bruns | Partisanship, polarisation and democracy | Queensland University of Technology | |
| Helen Byrne | Mathematical biology | University of Sydney | |
| Kishan Dholakia | 3D volumetric imaging | University of Adelaide | |
| Jeffery Errington | Biology of L-form bacteria | University of Sydney | |
| Sharon Friel | Global health equity | Australian National University | |
| Kliti Grice | Biofilm entombment and microbial functionality | Curtin University | |
| Zaiping Guo | High energy-density batteries | University of Wollongong | |
| Dayong Jin | upconversion nanotechnology | University of Technology Sydney | |
| Yun Liu | Crystal chemistry | Australian National University | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship |
| Dena Lyras | Microbiology | Monash University | |
| Alexander McBratney | Soil monitoring system | University of Sydney | |
| Naomi McClure-Griffiths | How galaxies work | Australian National University | |
| Michael Milford | Global positioning systems | Queensland University of Technology | |
| Sundhya Pahuja | Global corporations, accountability and international law | University of Melbourne | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship |
| Robert Parton | Cell biology | University of Queensland | |
| Andrew White | Artificial intelligence and neuromorphic computers | University of Queensland | |

### 2020

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Alison Bashford | World Population | University of New South Wales | |
| Ross Buckley | IT law | University of New South Wales | |
| Dennis Del Favero | Art and Technology | University of New South Wales | |
| Maureen Dollard | Occupational Safety and Health | University of South Australia | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Elaine Holmes | Senescence | Murdoch University | |
| David James | Genetics of aging | University of Sydney | |
| Loeske Kruuk | Wildlife management and conservation | Australian National University | |
| Catherine Lovelock | Conservation of coastal wetland | University of Queensland | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Harvey Millar | Plant Protein | University of Western Australia | |
| Jochen Mueller | Management of Chemical Substances | University of Queensland | |
| Martina Stenzel | Nanomedicine | University of New South Wales | |
| Kari Vilonen | Mathematics | University of Melbourne | |
| Toby Walsh | Artificial intelligence | University of New South Wales | |
| Huanting Wang | Renewable energy | Monash University | |

### 2019

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Andrew Dzurak | Quantum Computing | University of New South Wales | |
| Barry Pogson | Plant Biology | Australian National University | |
| Belinda Medlyn | Environmental Science | Western Sydney University | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |
| David Bellwood | Coral Reefs | James Cook University | |
| Debra Bernhardt | Molecular Simulations | University of Queensland | |
| Enrico Valdinoci | Partial Differential Equations | University of Western Australia | |
| Jie Lu | Machine Learning | University of Technology Sydney | |
| John Grundy | Software Engineering | Monash University | |
| Kaarin Anstey | Dementia | University of New South Wales | |
| Lianzhou Wang | Solar Energy | University of Queensland | |
| Liming Dai | Catalysis | University of New South Wales | |
| Lynette Russell | Indigenous Australians | Monash University | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Marcela Bilek | Surface Modification | University of Sydney | |
| Nina Wedell | Ecology | University of Melbourne | |
| Rupert Quentin Grafton | Water Justice | Australian National University | |
| Sara Dolnicar | Tourism | University of Queensland | |
| Yi-Min (Mike) Xie | Architecture | RMIT University | |

### 2018

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Bostjan Kobe | Innate Immunity | University of Queensland | |
| Christine Beveridge | Plant Genetics | University of Queensland | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Dan Li | Nanoionics | University of Melbourne | |
| Hanns-Christoph Nägerl | Quantum Simulation | University of Queensland | |
| Hong Hao | Civil Engineering | Curtin University | |
| James Whisstock | Molecular Imaging | Monash University | |
| Jolanda Jetten | Social Psychology | University of Queensland | |
| Jonathon Barnett | Adaptation to climate change in the Pacific | University of Melbourne | |
| Julian Gale | Crystallization | Curtin University | |
| Karl Glazebrook | Galaxy Formation | Swinburne University of Technology | |
| Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh | Liquid Metals | University of New South Wales | |
| Madeleine van Oppen | Coral Reefs | University of Melbourne | |
| Marilyn Fleer | Child Development | Monash University | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Peter Visscher | Genomics | University of Queensland | |
| Stephen Foley | Plate Tectonics | Macquarie University | |
| Tamara Davis | Dark Energy | University of Queensland | |

### 2017

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Ann McGrath | History of Indigenous Australians | Australian National University | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Christopher Barner-Kowollik | Materials Science | Queensland University of Technology | |
| Colin MacLeod | Cognitive Science | University of Western Australia | |
| Dacheng Tao | Computer Vision | University of Sydney | |
| Edward C. Holmes | Virology | University of Sydney | |
| Fedor Sukochev | Quantum Calculus | University of New South Wales | |
| Geoffrey McFadden | Biology | University of Melbourne | |
| George Willis | Mathematics | University of Newcastle | |
| Gottfried Otting | Proteomics | Australian National University | |
| Jill Bennett | Immersive Visualization | University of New South Wales | |
| Mathai Varghese | Geometric analysis | University of Adelaide | |
| Michelle Coote | Catalysis | Australian National University | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Paul E. Griffiths | Philosophy of Medicine | University of Sydney | |
| Shizhang Qiao | Sustainable Energy | University of Adelaide | |
| Svetha Venkatesh | Pattern Recognition | Deakin University | |
| George Zhao | Energy Storage | University of Queensland | |
| Zhiguo Yuan | Bioconversion | University of Queensland | |

### 2016

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Adrienne Stone | Constitutional Law | University of Melbourne | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Alan Rowan | Extracellular Matrix | Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology | |
| Anthony Bebbington | Geography of mining and extractivism | University of Melbourne | Resigned, 2019 |
| Barry Brook | Land Use | University of Tasmania | |
| Branka Vucetic | Wireless Communication | University of Sydney | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |
| David McAlpine | Sound Localization | Macquarie University | |
| Dmitri Golberg | Nanotechnology | National Institute for Materials Science | |
| Jamie Rossjohn | Immunology | Monash University | |
| Jonathan Woodhead | Climate of Australia | University of Melbourne | |
| Michael Tyers | Cell Biology | University of Montreal | |
| Paul Burn | Organic LEDs | University of Queensland | |
| Paul Tacon | Indigenous Australian Art | Griffith University | |
| Peter Cawood | Continental Crust | University of St. Andrews | |
| Peter Waterhouse | Plant Genetics | Queensland University of Technology | |
| Phillip Boyd | Oceanography | University of Tasmania | |
| Sharon K. Parker | Work design | University of Western Australia | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |

### 2015

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Anne Orford | Law of War | University of Melbourne | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Benjamin Andrews | Partial Differential Equations | Australian National University | |
| Bradley Sherman | Food Security | University of Queensland | |
| David Craik | Drug Design | University of Queensland | |
| Justin Gooding | Biosensing | University of New South Wales | |
| Kerrie Mengersen | Bayesian Statistics | Queensland University of Technology | |
| Leann Tilley | Biometrology | University of Melbourne | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Lisa Kewley | Cosmology | Australian National University | |
| Matthew Bailes | Radio Astronomy | Swinburne University of Technology | |
| Philip Hugenholtz | Microbial Ecology | University of Queensland | |
| Ping Koy Lam | Laser Levitation | Australian National University | |
| Ronald Rapee | Adolescence | Macquarie University | |
| Steven Sherwood | Cloud Physics | University of New South Wales | |
| Trevor McDougall | Ocean Mixing | University of New South Wales | |
| Zheng-Xiang Li | Plate Tectonics | Curtin University | |

### 2014

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Alan J. Cooper | Genomics | University of Adelaide | |
| Antoine M. van Oijen | DNA Replication | University of Wollongong | |
| Ian D. Small | Gene Expression | University of Western Australia | |
| Ian T. Paulsen | Marine Bacteria | Macquarie University | |
| John Dryzek | Deliberative Democracy | University of Canberra | |
| Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn | Spectral Imaging | University of Sydney | |
| Joy Damousi | Refugee Children | University of Melbourne | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Justin N. Marshall | Vision Science | University of Queensland | |
| Kate Smith-Miles | Algorithms | Monash University | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Matthew Spriggs | Archaeology | Australian National University | |
| Michael I. Bird | Climate Change in Australia | James Cook University | |
| Peter A. Robinson | Neuroscience | University of Sydney | |
| Peter Harrison | Secularization | University of Queensland | |
| Rose Amal | Solar Energy | University of New South Wales | |
| Thomas P. Davis | Nanoparticles | Monash University | |
| Veena Sahajwalla | Electronic Waste | University of New South Wales | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |

### 2013

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Arthur Lowery | Signal Processing | Monash University | |
| Bert Roberts | Geochronology | University of Wollongong | |
| Glenda Sluga | Internationalism | University of Sydney | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Hugh O'Neill | Mineralogy | Australian National University | |
| Hugh Possingham | Conservation Biology | University of Queensland | |
| Ian Reid | Computer Vision | University of Adelaide | |
| Katherine Demuth | Language Development | Macquarie University | |
| Kim Sterelny | Evolutionary Psychology | Australian National University | |
| Lloyd Hollenberg | Quantum Sensing | University of Melbourne | |
| Mark Cassidy | Offshore Drilling | University of Western Australia | |
| Mark Finnane | Criminal Justice | Griffith University | |
| Michelle Simmons | Quantum Computing | University of New South Wales | |
| Nicholas Evans | Linguistic Diversity | Australian National University | |
| Peter Taylor | Stochastic Processes | University of Melbourne | |
| Tanya Monro | Photonics | University of Adelaide | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Trevor Lithgow | Visual Prosthesis | Monash University | |
| Xu-Jia Wang | Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations | Australian National University | |

### 2012

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Alexandra Aikhenvald | Ethnolinguistics | James Cook University | |
| Ben Eggleton | Photonics | University of Sydney | |
| David Lindenmayer | Surrogate Species | Australian National University | |
| Douglas MacFarlane | Renewable Energy | Monash University | |
| Eelco Rohling | Sea Level Rise | Australian National University | |
| Frank Caruso | Biomolecular Engineering | University of Melbourne | |
| Ivan Marusic | Fluid Dynamics | University of Melbourne | |
| John Quiggin | Financial Regulation | University of Queensland | |
| Malcolm McCulloch | Marine Calcifiers | University of Western Australia | |
| Michael Fuhrer | Electronics | Monash University | |
| Nalini Joshi | Nonlinear Systems | University of Sydney | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Nicholas Wormald | Probabilistic Combinatorics | Monash University | |
| Ove Hoegh-Guldberg | Coral Reefs | University of Queensland | |
| Rick Shine | Invasive Species | University of Sydney | |
| Sue O'Connor | Human Dispersal to Australia | Australian National University | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Terry Hughes | Coral Reefs | James Cook University | |
| Tessa Morris-Suzuki | Grassroots Politics in Asia | Australian National University | |

### 2011

| Name | Area of Research | Institution | Notes |
| Alexander Haslam | Social Psychology | University of Queensland | |
| Bernard Degnan | Cell Biology | University of Queensland | |
| Craig Moritz | Biodiversity | Australian National University | |
| David Studdert | Public health | University of Melbourne | |
| Gordon Wallace | Bionics | University of Wollongong | |
| Ian Peterson | Quantum Physics | University of New South Wales | |
| Jason Mattingley | Attention | University of Queensland | |
| Mahananda Dasgupta | Particle Accelerators | Australian National University | Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Maria Forsyth | Sustainable Energy | Deakin University | |
| Martin Asplund | Milky Way Galaxy | Australian National University | |
| Michael Keane | Population Aging | University of New South Wales | |
| Peter Bartlett | Machine Learning | Queensland University of Technology | |
| Peter Gavin Hall | Data Science | University of Melbourne | |
| Philip Bland | Meteorites | Curtin University | |
| Pippa Norris | Democracy | University of Sydney | Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow |
| Stuart Wyithe | Galaxy Formation | University of Melbourne | |
| Warwick Anderson | Australian Racial Thought | University of Sydney | |

### 2010

| Name | Area of Research | Institution |
| Amnon Neeman | Derived Categories | Australian National University |
| Ary Hoffmann | Pest Control | University of Melbourne |
| Bryan Gaensler | Astronomy | University of Sydney |
| Christian Turney | Climate Change | University of New South Wales |
| Hanna Kokko | Adaptation | Australian National University |
| Hilary Charlesworth | Human Rights | Australian National University |
| Lorraine Mazerolle | Policing | University of Queensland |
| Margaret Jolly | Anthropology | Australian National University |
| Mark Bradford | Civil Engineering | University of New South Wales |
| Mark Westoby | Ecology | Macquarie University |
| Matthew England | Ocean Warming | University of New South Wales |
| Min Gu | Nanotechnology | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Paul Mulvaney | Nanotechnology | University of Melbourne |
| Peter Goodyear | Education | University of Sydney |
| William Laurance | Conservation | James Cook University |

### 2009

| Name | Area of Research | Institution |
| Anthony William Thomas | Particle Physics | University of Adelaide |
| Bernard Balleine | Decision-Making | University of Sydney |
| Brian Schmidt | Astronomy | Australian National University |
| Chennupati Jagadish | Nanotechnology | Australian National University |
| Dietmar Muller | Geology | University of Sydney |
| George Williams | Anti-Terrorism Legislation | University of New South Wales |
| Jennifer Martin | Antibacterials | University of Queensland |
| Lesley Head | Human-Environment Interaction | University of Wollongong |
| Michael Tobar | Telecommunications | University of Western Australia |
| Peter Hodgson | Metals | Deakin University |
| Peter Mumby | Coral Reefs | University of Queensland |
| Richard Bryant | Aboriginal Mental Health | University of New South Wales |
| Richard Hobbs | Ecology | University of Western Australia |
| Scott W. Sloan | Civil Engineering | University of Newcastle |
| Stephen Simpson | Nutrition | University of Sydney |