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Executive Directors
Professor Margaret Clayton
Dr David Falvey
Dr Ian Mackinnon
Professor Krishna Sen
Professor Margaret
Clayton
Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
Phone: +61 2 6287 6685
Fax: +61 2 6206 7291
Professor Margaret Clayton joined the ARC in March 2006 in the position of Executive Director, Biological Sciences and Biotechnology. Before joining the ARC, she was Associate Dean, Research and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science at Monash University.
Professor Clayton is a marine biologist. Her research helped to change the view, prevalent up to the 1980s, that many marine algae lacked sexual reproduction. This led to collaborative research with Professors D.G. Müller and W. Boland, which isolated and identified the active compounds and determined the sensitivity of pheromones (sperm attractants secreted by the eggs) in 12 species.
The author of 90 refereed journal articles and book chapters and several co-authored publications, Professor Clayton has received substantial competitive grant funding during her more than 30 years in research. In addition, she has participated in two expeditions to Antarctica and published a monograph and several papers on the biology of Antarctic marine benthic algae with Professor C. Wiencke.
Professor Clayton has a Bachelor of Science Honours Class 1 from Liverpool University, a PhD from The University of Melbourne and a Diploma of Education from Monash University. She has been a member of various professional committees and associations, including the Executive Council of the International Phycological Society, and has supervised more than 50 Honours and PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.
Dr David Falvey
Physics, Chemistry and Geoscience
Phone: +61 2 6287 6729
Fax: +61 2 6206 7270
Email: david.falvey[@]arc.gov.au
Dr David Falvey returned to Australia from the UK to take up the position of ARC Executive Director, Physics, Chemistry and Geoscience in July 2006. Since 1998, Dr Falvey has served as Executive Director at the British Geological Survey (BGS), a public sector research agency within the UK's Natural Environment Research Council.
With an annual budget of A$135 million, half of which is won competitively, BGS is recognised worldwide. It routinely wins international contracts from the World Bank, European Commission and the Department for International Development to provide services and surveys in several developing nations in Africa and Asia. It has also won competitive service and survey contracts from national governments in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Canada, Greece, Morocco, Botswana and Ireland.
Under Dr Falvey's stewardship, the BGS moved from traditional, 2D (map-based) geological survey, into 3D digital modelling, hazard research, groundwater research, soils and contaminated land research, the urban environment, and 'e-science'. A study of the economic benefits of the BGS to the UK community has shown a direct benefit/cost ratio of 10:1.
Dr Falvey has a BSc (Hons, Class 1) from The University of Sydney and a PhD in marine geophysics from The University of New South Wales. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and has received an honorary science doctorate from Nottingham Trent University for his contribution to Earth science.
Dr Falvey is a visiting Professor at the University of Leicester, a Member of the European Commission Advisory Council on Zero Carbon Emission Power Plants, Governor of Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.
In 2001, he was the runner-up in a UK competition, sponsored by British Telecom and Business Sunday, to find the most visionary public or private sector leaders. BGS was recognised as one of Britain's one hundred most visionary organisations.
Other positions Dr Falvey has held include: Director Ocean Drilling Programs, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. Washington, DC; Associate Director, Australian Geological Survey Organisation; Chief, Division of Marine Geosciences and Petroleum Geology, Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics; Senior Lecturer in Geophysics at The University of Sydney; and Exploration Geophysicist, Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd.
Dr Ian
Mackinnon
Engineering and Environmental Science
Phone: +61 2 6287 6610
Fax: +61 2 6206 7250
Dr Ian Mackinnon took up the position of Executive Director, Engineering and Environmental Science in late January 2006. Dr Mackinnon has a wealth of experience in academia and industry, previously as Professor at The University of Queensland and more recently as an Executive Director of a technology start-up company.
He spent 25 years as a researcher and research leader in university, government and commercial organisations in Australia and the USA. He has been awarded research and development grants in a range of fields including advanced materials, chemistry, mineralogy, cosmochemistry and wastewater treatment and authored more than 100 publications in the peer-reviewed literature.
Among his career highlights, Dr Mackinnon lists forming and leading successful technology development and commercialisation teams in new materials, managing a technology start-up company from initial phase to market sales and establishing the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis at The University of Queensland.
Dr Mackinnon has a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and geology and a BSc (Hons) in geochemistry from James Cook University. He undertook his research work for a PhD in crystallography (James Cook) at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights via an Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering fellowship. He is a member of the Mineralogical Society and the Clay Minerals Society of America and the Australian Water Association.
Professor Krishna Sen
Humanities and Creative Arts
Phone: +61 2 6287 6650
Fax: +61 2 6206 7240
Email: krishna.sen[@]arc.gov.au
Professor Krishna Sen became Executive Director for Humanities and Creative Arts at the ARC in April 2007. Before joining the ARC, she was Dean, Research and Creative Production and Graduate Studies in Humanities at Curitn University of Technology. Professor Sen is the ARC's first ever WA executive director appointment.
Internationally recognised as one of the most significant scholars of Indonesian media and culture, Professor Sen has expertise across a diverse range of disciplines, including Asian studies, media history and sociology, cinema studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.
Professor Sen's background in western theory and her regional perspectives on contemporary global culture and media have informed her extensive writing during the past decade on media, gender-politics, human rights in Indonesia and other issues. Her works include Indonesian Cinema: Framing the New Order (1994), Gender and Power in Affluent Asia (co-edited with Maila Stivens, 1998), Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia and The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy (co-authored with David Hill 2000 and 2005) and more than 50 book chapters and journal articles.
She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a member of the International Advisory Board of Murdoch University's Asia Research Centre, and on the editorial boards of the Southeast Asia publications series of the Asian Studies Association of Australia and several other international journals and publication series. She has also been a member of the ARC’s Asia Pacific Futures network and Cultural Research Networks, a long-standing international reader for the ARC and a member of the ARC College of Experts.
Professor Sen has a PhD in politics from Monash University, an MA in International Relations from Jadavpur University in Calcutta, and a BA History Honours from Calcutta University. She has held senior research positions at Curtin University of Technology, and was a Senior Lecturer and International Coordinator in the Media Communication and Culture Department at Murdoch University.
