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17 October 2013

Eight women elected ATSE Fellows
Key business names, leading academics, prominent commercial innovators and highranking public sector figures – including eight prominent women – have been elected
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).
The new Fellows, elected by the Academy’s Fellowship from a variety of fields, include
some of the most prominent Australian women in research and technology:
Dr Mary Ann Augustin FTSE, Research Program Leader (Food Science), CSIRO;Dr Susan Barrell FTSE, Acting Deputy Director, Bureau of Meteorology;
Ms Kathryn Fagg FTSE, Board Member, Reserve Bank of Australia;
Ms Denise Goldsworthy FTSE, consultant and former Chief Commercial Officer, Rio
Tinto Autonomous Haul Trucks, Rio Tinto Iron Ore Pty Ltd;Dr Bronwyn Harch FTSE, Chief, Computational Informatics Research Divison, CSIRO;
Professor Hua Kun Liu FTSE, Professor, Institute of Superconducting Materials,
University of Wollongong;
Emeritus Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos AM FTSE, Emeritus Professor, Chemical
Engineering and Industrial Chemistry, University of NSW; andMs Catherine Tanna FTSE, Chairman, BG Australia.
Leading business figures include:
Mr Peter Coleman FTSE, Chief Executive Officer, Woodside Petroleum Ltd;Mr John McGagh FTSE, Global Head of Innovation, Rio Tinto Ltd;Mr Steve Sargent FTSE, President and Chief Executive Officer, GE Australia and New
Zealand; andMr David Thodey FTSE, Chief Executive Officer, Telstra Corporation.
High-impact academics include:
Professor John Beynon FREng FTSE, Executive Dean, Faculty of Engineering,Computer and Mathemathical Sciences,University of Adelaide;
Professor Graham Davies FREng FTSE, Dean of Engineering, University of NSW;
Professor Christopher Greig FTSE, Professor Energy Strategy and Director, UQ
Energy Initiative, University of Queensland;
Professor Yingjie Jay Guo FTSE, Director, Australia-China Research Centre for
Wireless Communication and Research Director, Smart and Secure Infrastructure,
Digital Productivity and Services National Flagship, CSIRO;
Professor Robert Henry FTSE, Professor of Innovation in Agriculture, University of
Queensland;
Professor Ross McAree FTSE, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Queensland;
Professor Peter Quinn FTSE, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University ofWA, and Director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR);
Professor Robert Short FTSE, Pro Vice Chancellor, Information Engineering,Technology and the Environment, University of SA;

Leading innovators include:
Dr Silviu Itescu FTSE, Chief Executive, Mesoblast Ltd;Dr George Morstyn FTSE, Deputy Chair, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre; andDr John Ness FTSE, Managing Director, EM Solutions;Public sector leaders include:
Dr Ian Oppermann FTSE, Director, Digital Product and Services Flagship, CSIRO; andDr Robert Vertessy FTSE, Director and CEO, Bureau of Meteorology.
The Academy elected one Foreign Fellow – Professor Liang-Shih Fan FTSE, from
Ohio State University, a world leader in chemical engineering.
The full list follows:2013 FELLOWSDr Mary Ann Augustin FTSE
Research Program Leader (Food Science), CSIRO(Victoria)
Mary Ann Augustin has made outstanding contributions to food science and the foodindustry through initiating and leading excellent research and working to apply theoutcomes to creation of an impressive array of commercially successful food ingredients,
products and processes.
Dr Susan Barrell FTSE
Acting Deputy Director, Bureau of Meteorology(Victoria)
Sue Barrell is a world leader in weather and climate observation technologies and awidely respected authority on international climate change monitoring and research. She
has been the driving force in the modernisation of Australia’s meteorological observing
systems and networks involving automatic weather stations, ocean buoys, advanced
Doppler radars and satellite ground stations. She has led the introduction of many new
cutting-edge observing technologies.
Professor John Beynon FTSE
Executive Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences,
University of Adelaide(SA)John Beynon has made a major contribution to metallurgical research, academic
leadership and developing links between research and industry. His research has had
important applications in the manufacture of steel and in the development of railway
track systems. He is a leader in the development of engineering education in Australia,
at a time when the sector is evolving rapidly.
Mr Peter Coleman FTSE
Chief Executive Officer, Woodside Petroleum Ltd(WA)

Peter Coleman has an outstanding record of leadership in the petroleum exploration andproduction industry with particular expertise in oil and gas production. Before being
appointed to lead Woodside in 2011, he had 27 years’ industry experience with the
ExxonMobil group, filling a variety of senior roles in Australia, Africa, Asia and the UnitedStates with responsibility for oil and gas developments around the world.
Professor Graham Davies FREng FTSE
Dean of Engineering, University of New South Wales(NSW)
Graham Davies has achieved an international reputation for his research into optoelectronic circuits for telecommunications applications, and for advances in the growth ofsemiconductors for these devices. Distinguished for 30 years of innovative leadership ofresearch at British Telecom, he also led the development of sophisticated tools forresearch management.
Ms Kathryn Fagg FTSE
Board Member, Reserve Bank of Australia(Victoria)
Kathryn Fagg has a broad range of experience particularly in the industrial sector. A
graduate in chemical engineering, her early career was with Esso where she led theplanning for the innovative use of technology in new oil fields in Bass Strait. She went on
to lead large businesses in logistics, manufacturing and banking in Australia, Asia and
New Zealand. Ms Fagg is an active and public advocate for women in leadership,particularly in engineering and operational roles.
Ms Denise Goldsworthy FTSE
Chief Commercial Officer, Rio Tinto Autonomous Haul Trucks, Rio Tinto Iron Ore Pty Ltd(WA)
Denise Goldsworthy was until recently a senior executive at Rio Tinto with an
outstanding reputation for leadership in various aspects of the mining industry. As ametallurgist at BHP Steel for 17 years, she made significant contributions in a number ofareas including sinter plant, blast furnace and steelmaking operations. She subsequently
was appointed a General Manager at Rio Tinto where she has been an outstanding
leader of a number of Rio Tinto companies and subsidiaries in mining and resources
areas.
Professor Christopher Greig FTSE
Professor Energy Strategy and Director, UQ Energy Initiative, University of Queensland(Queensland)
Chris Greig is an innovator and business leader who has made outstanding contributionsin the sugar, mining and energy industry sectors. His patented inventions in the sugar
and kaolin processing industries have had enduring industrial impact. His engineering
project management skills have had significant economic impact within Australia andabroad. He is also internationally recognised for his vision and leadership in lowemissions energy, especially carbon capture and storage.
Professor Yingjie Jay Guo FTSE
Director, Australia-China Research Centre for Wireless Communication and Research
Director, Smart and Secure Infrastructure, Digital Productivity and Services National
Flagship, CSIRO(NSW)
Jay Guo has had a sustained and outstanding impact in wireless and mobile systems
innovation and development in Australia and internationally. He is recognised as aleading expert in antennas and wireless communications systems, and as an industrial
innovator with major industrial impact. As Research Director, Wireless & Broadband, at
CSIRO, he provided strategic leadership in the development of R&D through tocommercialisation in international markets.
Dr Bronwyn Harch FTSE
Chief, Computational Informatics Research Divison, CSIRO(Queensland)
Bronwyn Harch has had an outstanding career in CSIRO where, after joining initially as
a postdoctoral research statistician, she is now heads its Computational Informatics
function. She works in partnership with the organisation’s National Research Flagshipprogram to address key national challenges across the information and decision-making
value chain for government, industry and the innovation sectors.
Professor Robert Henry FTSE
Professor of Innovation in Agriculture, University of Queensland(Queensland)
Robert Henry is a distinguished researcher whose innovations in agricultural
biotechnology together with a strong commitment to industry engagement havesignificantly enhanced Australia’s competitive agricultural market advantage. Professor
Henry is renowned internationally for the quality and influence of his work spanningbiotechnology, plant biochemistry and molecular biology and has earned the accolade ofbeing one of the most highly cited scientists in agriculture in the past 20 years.
Dr Silviu Itescu FTSE
Chief Executive, Mesoblast Ltd(Victoria)
Silviu Itescu is a medical researcher who has made the transition from being a global
leader in his research field to be a highly successful entrepreneur. He has adistinguished record as a researcher in a search for effective therapeutic agents
involving the use of adult stem cells which avoid rejection by the recipient. He foprmed
Mesoblast, a $2 billion market capitalisation biotechnology company engaged in latestage clinical trials of his products.

Professor Hua Kun Liu FTSE
Professor, Institute of Superconducting Materials, University of Wollongong(NSW)
Hua Kun is an international leader in the development and commercialisation of new
superconducting and other materials. She has established an international network ofacademic and industry partners, contributing to commercialisation and industry
development via technology transfer, and spin-off companies. Professor Liu has also
worked tirelessly to promote women postgraduates in science and technology and has
trained many dedicated leaders in the clean energy field.
Professor Peter Ross McAree FTSE
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Queensland(Queensland)
Ross McAree is a significant academic and engineer who made a major contribution at
Oxford University to developing tele-robotic systems for the nuclear industry and rapid
prototyping systems for the manufacturing industry. His current, and most profoundcontributions, have been with the Australian mining industry and global mining
equipment manufacturers. Professor McAree’s research team at CRCMining and the
University of Queensland is an internationally-recognised pioneer in the rapidly growing
field of mining equipment automation.
Mr John McGagh FTSE
Global Head of Innovation, Rio Tinto Ltd(Queensland)
John McGagh has led the development of important research and development centres
in universities that are addressing key technical issues for the global mining industry,
covering automation of surface mines, the advanced recovery of minerals, the reductionof energy required for crushing and grinding processes, and technologies for massive
underground block-cave mines – with considerable benefits to the mining industry.
Dr George Morstyn FTSE
Deputy Chair, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre(Victoria)
George Morstyn has provided exemplary leadership and outstanding contributions totranslating basic science discoveries into medically and commercially important clinicalpractice. As a researcher he was responsible for the discovery of a means of eliciting
haemopoietic stem cells in the blood, which is now used worldwide in place of bonemarrow transplantation. As a senior executive of Amgen he played a foundational role in
the implementation of this and other significant medical and commercial products to
global markets.
Dr John Ness FTSE
Managing Director, EM Solutions(Queensland)
John Ness has been at the forefront of developing innovative designs for microwave
components including antennas, amplifiers and filters that are now used in wirelesssystems such as microwave radios and satellite terminals around the world. He has
been the co-founder and head of three start-up companies. His creative design
contributions have demonstrated excellence in technical innovation. His legacy is thecreation of a significant Australian industry sector in wireless and microwave systems.
Dr Ian Oppermann FTSE
Director, Digital Productivity and Services Flagship, CSIRO(NSW)
Ian Oppermann has contributed to the core technology base of broadband wirelesscommunications systems, and to the collaborative evolution and business deployment ofmobile communications globally. He has led CSIRO’s initiatives in information andcommunications technologies (ICT), contributed to the formation of the Flagship, beenan active initiator of national collaborative initiatives in ICT-based innovation and been astrong contributor to university, industry and government advisory bodies.
Professor Peter Quinn FTSE
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Western Australia and Directorof the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at the university(WA)
Peter Quinn is a world leader in data-intensive science; the design, development andoperation of super-science facilities; the theory of galaxy formation and the search for
Dark Matter. He is ranked by Thomson Reuters as one of the top 250 astronomers in thepast 25 years. Professor Quinn has worked closely with global data companies towards
the design and development of the SKA data processing systems.
Mr Steve Sargent FTSE
President and Chief Executive Officer, GE Australia and New Zealand(NSW)
Steve Sargent has worked overseas and in Australia for GE – a company with industry
initiatives in energy, water, oil and gas, locomotives, aviation, and healthcare. With
revenues of $6.7 billion, GE Australia and New Zealand is the second largest component
of GE in the world behind its US companies. He was appointed a member of theAustralian Treasurer’s Financial Sector Advisory Council and has recently been
appointed a member of the Prime Minister's influential Australian B20 group, a body toadvise the government on policy to promote global economic prosperity and jobs in thelead up to Australia's presidency of the G20 summit in 2014.
Professor Robert Short FTSE
Pro Vice Chancellor, Information Engineering, Technology and the Environment,
University of South Australia(SA)
Rob Short has exploited outstanding new science to develop products with profound
impacts on human health and wealth creation. He pioneered the deposition of polymer
coatings from electrically-excited gases and their use in medical devices and founded
two successful spin-out companies. He oversaw the development of six commerciallysuccessful, patent-protected, products. As inaugural director of the Mawson Institute at
the University of South Australia, he built a world class research institute at themanufacturing/biotechnology interface, nurturing technologies with demonstrable global
impact.
Emeritus Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos AM FTSE
Emeritus Professor, Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry, University of New
South Wales(NSW)
Maria Skyllas-Kazacos is an internationally acclaimed researcher in the area of energy
storage. Her pioneering work on the Vanadium Redox Battery is already having a major
impact on the electricity sector and renewable energy industry world-wide. The
technology that she pioneered is internationally regarded as the foremost battery
technology for large-scale energy-storage applications. It is being used to remove
inherent instability problems of wind and solar energy (via load balancing), allowing
large-scale penetration of renewables into the ”smart grid” of the future. It is now being
manufactured by several companies in Europe, USA, Japan and China.
Ms Catherine Tanna FTSE
Chairman, BG Australia(Queensland)
Catherine Tanna is a globally acknowledged leader in the gas resources industry, having
forged an outstanding career internationally with BHP Petroleum and Shell before
returning to join BG Group in Australia. In a professional career of more than 20 years in
the natural gas production industry she has a remarkable record of achievement andimpact including European, Asian and African countries. She currently oversees theleading coal seam gas-to-LNG project in Australia. She is one of Australia's mostinfluential business women.
Mr David Thodey FTSE
Chief Executive Officer, Telstra Corporation(Victoria)
David Thodey was formerly Chief Executive Officer of IBM Australia/New Zealand before
taking his current role at Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications company.
Through his widely acclaimed record of leadership and public influence, he has hadoutstanding impact on Australia’s information technology and telecommunicationsindustry. He has recently been designated as 13th in a list of the top 50 most influential
Australians and 3rd in the top 50 most influential people in business.
Dr Robert Vertessy FTSE
Director and CEO, Bureau of Meteorology(ACT)
Robert Vertessy has provided outstanding national scientific and technologicalleadership in the meteorology field. This has included achievements including themarshalling and coordinating of Australia's efforts in hydrological modelling, the designand scientific development of a national water resources observation network, and thedesign of the water information component of the $10 billion National Plan for Water
Security.

2013 FOREIGN FELLOW
Professor Liang-Shih Fan FTSE
Distinguished University Professor and C. John Easton Professor of Engineering, Ohio
State University(USA)
Liang-Shih Fan has an international reputation for his pioneering research anddevelopment in the chemical engineering fields of particulates, multiphase reactionengineering and clean fossil energy technology. His prolific body of work includes
multiple research papers and books that are referenced widely in academia andindustry, and 39 patents of which a majority have been licensed or commercialised. He
is also recognised for his achievements in facilitating and diversifying cross-culturalinternational exchanges. He is a Fellow of the US National Academy of Engineering, anda Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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