Fact Sheet (PDF 412 KB) To support the advancement of knowledge and contribute to national innovation, the ARC College of Experts plays a key role in identifying research excellence. Its members are experts of international standing drawn from the Australian research community which includes higher education, industry and public sector research organisations. The ARC seeks nominations from suitably qualified and experienced individuals, including senior academics and end-users across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, with peer review and research leadership experience. The ARC Board is responsible for appointing members to the ARC College of Experts. ARC College of Experts nominations are called for annually. The ARC appoints the College members for a term of three years. The College of Experts assists the ARC by: assigning external assessors assessing and ranking ARC grant applications that have been submitted under the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP) moderating external assessments providing recommendations for fundable applications assisting with recruiting through the nomination of new assessors providing advice for peer review reforms, and providing strategic advice to the ARC on emerging disciplines and cross-disciplinary developments. The ARC is required to maintain a high standard of professionalism and ethical conduct in its operations. The ARC Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Policy is designed to ensure that all members of the ARC College of Experts are aware of the confidentiality obligations associated with activities and that conflicts of interest are identified and addressed in a rigorous and transparent way. The ARC requires members of the ARC College of Experts to provide assurances to the ARC that they will abide by the ARC's confidentiality requirements and will disclose to it any conflicts of interest related to their official duties as members. ARC College of Experts 2026 A complete list of the ARC College of Experts membership can be found below. There are currently 413 members on the ARC College of Experts. Selection meeting panels will be drawn from the ARC College of Experts as necessary. ARC College of Experts members indicates a new member in 2026 Professor Amin Abbosh The University of Queensland Professor Morten Andersen Macquarie University Professor Barton Anderson The University of Sydney Professor Peter Anderson The University of New England Professor Gunther Andersson Flinders University Professor Nigel Andrew Southern Cross University Professor Benjamin Andrews The Australian National University Professor Mikhail Anufriev University of Technology Sydney Professor Jayashree Arcot The University of New South Wales Professor Maziar Arjomandi Adelaide University Dr John Atack Griffith University Associate Professor Brett Baker The University of Melbourne Professor Sarah Baker Griffith University Professor Jie Bao The University of New South Wales Professor Katie Barclay Macquarie University Professor Debbie Bargallie Griffith University (New member in 2026) Professor Colin Barrow Deakin University Professor Georgina Barton University of Southern Queensland Professor Andrew Bassom University of Tasmania Professor Saba Bebawi Western Sydney University Professor Travis Beddoe La Trobe University Professor Alison Behie The Australian National University Professor Nicole Bell The University of Melbourne Professor Sarah Bell The University of Melbourne Professor Bindi Bennett Federation University Australia Professor Christopher Berndt Swinburne University of Technology Dr Scott Berry The University of New South Wales (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Jonathon Beves The University of New South Wales Professor Michael Bird James Cook University Associate Professor Thomas Birtchnell University of Wollongong (New member in 2026) Professor David Bishop Victoria University Professor Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews Western Sydney University (New member in 2026) Professor Colette Boskovic The University of Melbourne Professor Robert Brooks The University of New South Wales (New member in 2026) Professor Lisa Brophy La Trobe University Professor Paula Brough Griffith University Professor Scott Brown The University of Newcastle Professor Joanne Bryant The University of New South Wales (New member in 2026) Emeritus Professor Deborah Bunker The University of Sydney Professor Paulomi (Polly) Burey University of Southern Queensland Professor Kathleen Butler The University of Newcastle (New member in 2026) Professor Mark Byron The University of Sydney Professor Nicholas Carah The University of Queensland Professor Annemaree Carroll The University of Queensland (New member in 2026) Professor Lucas Cernusak James Cook University (New member in 2026) Professor Justin Chalker Flinders University (New member in 2026) Professor Erik Champion Adelaide University (New member in 2026) Professor Michael Champion Australian Catholic University Professor Tommy Chan Queensland University of Technology Professor Rona Chandrawati The University of New South Wales Professor Millicent Chang University of Wollongong Professor David Chapple Monash University Professor Zanna Chase University of Tasmania (New member in 2026) Professor Ling Chen University of Technology Sydney Professor Zhong-Hua Chen Adelaide University Professor Kapil Chousalkar Adelaide University Professor Timothy Clark Deakin University (New member in 2026) Dr Christofer Clemente University of the Sunshine Coast Professor Rachel Codd The University of Sydney Professor Catharine Coleborne The University of Newcastle Professor Iain Collings Macquarie University Professor Alan Collins Adelaide University Professor Melinda Cooper The Australian National University (New member in 2026) Emeritus Professor Jennifer Corrin The University of Queensland (New member in 2026) Professor Kyllie Cripps Monash University Professor Brenda Croft The Australian National University Professor Scott Croom The University of Sydney Professor Darren Croton Swinburne University of Technology Professor Scott Cummins University of the Sunshine Coast Associate Professor Elisabete da Cunha The University of Western Australia Professor Caillan Davenport The Australian National University (New member in 2026) Professor Bruno David Monash University Professor Fariba Dehghani The University of Sydney (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Alexa Delbosc Monash University (New member in 2026) Professor Timothy Denham The Australian National University Professor Helen Dickinson The University of New South Wales (New member in 2026) Professor Maggie Chuoyan Dong The University of New South Wales Professor Mirella Dottori University of Wollongong Dr Zoe Doubleday Adelaide University (New member in 2026) Professor Alison Downham Moore Western Sydney University Professor Mark Dras Macquarie University Associate Professor Georgina Drew Adeliade University Professor Christopher Drovandi Queensland University of Technology Professor Aijun Du Queensland University of Technology Professor Haping Du University of Wollongong Professor Uwe Dulleck University of Canberra Professor Xuan Thinh Duong Macquarie University Professor Jason Dutton La Trobe University Professor Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem Adelaide University (New member in 2026) Professor David Edwards The University of Western Australia Professor Robert Edwards Flinders University Professor David Ellsworth Western Sydney University (New member in 2026) Professor Nisvan Erkal The University of Melbourne Professor Paola Escudero Western Sydney University Professor Nir Eynon Monash University Professor Eduardo Eyras The Australian National University Professor Kathryn Fairfull-Smith Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2026) Professor Simon Farrell The University of Western Australia Professor Megan Farrelly Monash University (New member in 2026) Professor Thomas Fath Macquarie University (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Jorge Fernandez Adelaide University (New member in 2026) Prof Cordelia Fine The University of Melbourne (New member in 2026) Professor Tanya Fitzgerald The University of Western Australia Professor Matthew Fitzpatrick Flinders University Dr James Flexner The University of Sydney Professor Stephen Foley Macquarie University Associate Professor Damien Fordham Adelaide University Professor Adrian Franklin Professor Marylène Gagné Curtin University Professor Philip Gale University of Technology Sydney Professor Tamás (Tom) Gedeon Curtin University Professor Matthew Gilliham Adeliade University Professor Gerard Goggin Western Sydney University Professor Helena Grehan Edith Cowan University Professor Frank Grutzner The University of Adelaide Professor Ning Gu Adelaide University Professor Hong Guan Griffith University Professor Susanna Guatelli University of Wollongong Professor Fei Guo Macquarie University Professor Jianhua Guo The University of Queensland Professor Wenshan Guo University of Technology Sydney Professor Zihua Guo Monash University (New member in 2026) Professor Darren Halpin The Australian National University Professor Xiaojing Hao The University of New South Wales (New member in 2026) Professor Mark Harris Curtin University Professor Hugh Harris Adelaide University Associate Professor Karl Hassan The University of Newcastle Professor Michael Haugh The University of Queensland Associate Professor Sadie Heckenberg University of Tasmania Professor Alexander Heger Monash University Professor Begoña Heras La Trobe University Associate Professor Elizabeth Hinde The University of Melbourne (New member in 2026) Professor Larissa Hjorth RMIT University Professor Hinze Hogendoorn Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2026) Professor Katja Holtta-Otto The University of Melbourne Professor Yuning Hong La Trobe University (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Jingwei Hou The University of Queensland (New member in 2026) Professor Donna Houston Macquarie University (New member in 2026) Professor Steven Howard University of Wollongong Associate Professor Hui Hu Swinburne University of Technology Professor Dr Longbin Huang The University of Queensland (New member in 2026) Professor Xiaodong Huang Swinburne University of Technology Professor Zi (Helen) Huang The University of Queensland Professor Jun Huang The University of Sydney Professor Thomas Huber The Australian National University Professor Mark Hughes Southern Cross University Professor Terry Hughes Professor Dr Daniel Hutto University of Wollongong Professor Christopher Hyland University of Wollongong Professor Marta Indulska The University of Queensland Professor Joanne Ingold Australian Catholic University Professor Marcel Jackson La Trobe University Professor Tanya Jakimow The Australian National University Professor Harald Janovjak Flinders University Professor Michael Jennions The Australian National University (New member in 2026) Associate Professor JC Ji University of Technology Sydney (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Guohua Jia Curtin University Associate Professor Zhongfan Jia Flinders University Professor Yijiao Jiang Macquarie University Professor Yan Jiao Adelaide University Professor Sarah Johnson The University of Newcastle Professor Tiffany Jones Macquarie University Dr Timothy Jones La Trobe University Professor Kathryn Kasmarik The University of New South Wales (New member in 2026) Professor Ivan Kassal The University of Sydney (New member in 2026) Professor Omid Kavehei The University of Sydney Professor Stuart Kaye University of Wollongong Professor Allison Kealy Swinburne University of Technology Professor Bridget Kelly University of Wollongong (New member in 2026) Professor Ivan Kempson University of South Australia Associate Professor Damon Kent University of the Sunshine Coast Professor Nasser Khalili The University of New South Wales Professor Olivia Khoo Monash University Professor Matt King University of Tasmania Professor Fima Klebaner Monash University Professor Jayantha Kodikara Monash University Professor Daniel Kolarich Griffith University (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Shino Konishi The University of Western Australia Associate Professor Liangzhi Kou Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2026) Professor George Koutsantonis The University of Western Australia Professor Emma Kowal Deakin University Professor Sharad Kumar Adelaide University Professor Hamid Laga Murdoch University Professor Girish Lakhwani The University of Sydney Associate Professor Shu Kee Lam The University of Melbourne Emeritus Professor Martin Lambert Adelaide University Professor Jo Lampert Monash University Professor Bradley Launikonis The University of Queensland Professor Bronwyn Laycock The University of Queensland Professor Elizabeth Leane University of Tasmania Professor Julie Lee The University of Western Australia Professor David Lewis Flinders University Professor Jun Li Curtin University (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Jingliang Li Deakin University Professor Weihua Li University of Wollongong Professor Xiaodong Li RMIT University Professor Ting Liao Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2026) Professor Anthony Licata The Australian National University Professor Timothy Lindsey The University of Melbourne Professor Wendy Lipworth Macquarie University (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Daniel Little The University of Melbourne (New member in 2026) Professor Dan Liu RMIT University (New member in 2026) Professor Dikai Liu University of Technology Sydney Associate Professor Sonia Liu The University of Sydney Professor Xia-Ji Liu Swinburne University of Technology Professor Yang Liu Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2026) Professor Yun Liu The Australian National University Professor Zhe Liu The University of Melbourne Professor Samanthika Liyanapathirana Western Sydney University Associate Professor Bastien Llamas Adelaide University (New member in 2026) Professor Seng Loke Deakin University Professor Megan Lord The University of New South Wales Professor Julien Louys Griffith University Professor Heather Lovell University of Tasmania Professor Susan Luckman Adelaide University Professor Qian Ma RMIT University Professor Tianyi Ma RMIT University Professor Carolyn Maccann The University of Sydney (New member in 2026) Professor Alexander Mackay University of Wollongong Professor Robert Mailhammer Western Sydney University Professor Pushkar Maitra Monash University Professor Cecily Maller RMIT University (New member in 2026) Professor Elena Marchetti Griffith University Professor Dr Lina Markauskaite The University of Sydney Professor Christopher Marsden Monash University Professor Andrew Martin The University of Melbourne Professor Assaad Masri The University of Sydney (New member in 2026) Professor Anthony Masters The University of Sydney Professor Jane Matthews Deakin University Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart University of New England Professor Janet McColl-Kennedy The University of Queensland Professor James McCoy The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Professor Scott McCue Queensland University of Technology Professor Richard McDermid Macquarie University Professor Duncan Mcduie-Ra Monash University Professor Katrina McFerran The University of Melbourne (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Simon McIlroy Queensland University of Technology Associate Professor Anthony McKnight University of Wollongong (New member in 2026) Professor Gavan McNally The University of New South Wales Professor Saad Mekhilef Swinburne University of Technology Associate Professor Andrew Merchant The University of Sydney Associate Professor Melissa Merritt The University of New South Wales Professor Frederic Meunier The University of Queensland Emeritus Professor Richard Middleton The University of Newcastle Professor Katarina Miljkovic Curtin University (New member in 2026) Professor David Miller James Cook University Professor Paul Mills The University of Queensland Professor Michael Mintrom Monash University Professor Peta Mitchell Queensland University of Technology Associate Professor Sudha Mokkapati Monash University (New member in 2026) Emeritus Professor Janet Mooney Australian Catholic University Professor James Morley The University of Sydney Associate Professor Kate Mounsey University of the Sunshine Coast (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Markus Muellner The University of Sydney Professor Ivan Nagelkerken Adelaide University Professor Bronwen Neil Macquarie University Professor Alexander Newman The University of Melbourne Professor Tuan Ngo The University of Melbourne Professor Thuy (Kate) Nguyen RMIT University Professor Nam-Trung Nguyen Griffith University Professor Bing-Jie Ni The University of New South Wales Professor Adrienne Nicotra The Australian National University Professor Mark Nielsen The University of Queensland Professor Karin Nordstrom Flinders University Professor Melissa Nursey-Bray Adelaide University Professor Brian Oliver University of Technology Sydney Professor Sarah O’Shea Charles Sturt University Professor Gottfried Otting The Australian National University Professor Alister Page The University of Newcastle (New member in 2026) Professor Maurice Pagnucco The University of New South Wales Professor Stephen Palmisano University of Wollongong Associate Professor Riccardo Paolini The University of New South Wales (New member in 2026) Professor Anna Paradowska The University of Sydney Professor Sora Park University of Canberra Professor Christine Parker The University of Melbourne Professor Helen Partridge University of Wollongong Professor Ekaterina Pas Monash University Professor John Paterson University of New England Professor Sonja Pedell Swinburne University of Technology Professor Neal Peres Da Costa The University of Sydney Professor Michael Petraglia Griffith University Associate Professor Michelle Phillipov Adelaide University (New member in 2026) Professor Son Lam Phung University of Wollongong Professor Maxine Piggott Charles Darwin University Professor Michael Piper The University of Queensland Associate Professor Sally Plush Adelaide University Professor Roger Pocock Monash University Dr Kellie Pollard Charles Darwin University Professor Phillip Pope Queensland University of Technology Professor Emily Potter Deakin University Professor Christopher Poulton University of Technology Sydney Professor Jeff Powell Western Sydney University Professor Malin Premaratne Monash University Professor Gavin Prideaux Flinders University Professor Gwenaelle Proust The University of Sydney Professor Gangadhara Prusty The University of New South Wales (New member in 2026) Professor Tara Pukala Adelaide University Professor Anthony Purcell Monash University (New member in 2026) Professor Julia Quilter University of Wollongong Professor Maria Raciti University of the Sunshine Coast (New member in 2026) Professor Jacqui Ramagge Adelaide University (New member in 2026) Professor Colin Raston AO FFA Flinders University Professor Zed Rengel The University of Western Australia Professor Jack Reynolds Deakin University Professor Jonathan Rhodes Queensland University of Technology Professor Charles Rice University of Technology Sydney Associate Professor Amanda Ridley The University of Western Australia Professor Amy Roberts Flinders University Professor Daniel Robinson The University of New South Wales Professor Alison Rodger The Australian National University Professor Bernard Rolfe Deakin University Professor Gideon Rosenbaum The University of Queensland Professor Dong Ruan Swinburne University of Technology Professor Sharyn Rundle-Thiele Griffith University Professor Flora Salim The University of New South Wales Professor Paul Salmon University of the Sunshine Coast Professor Emilie Sauret Queensland University of Technology Professor Serkan Saydam The University of New South Wales Professor Peter Scammells Monash University Professor Benjamin Schwessinger The Australian National University (New member in 2026) Professor Marie Segrave University of Melbourne Professor Jan Seidel The University of New South Wales Professor Cordelia Selomulya The University of New South Wales Professor Carla Sgro Monash University (New member in 2026) Professor Iman Shames The Australian National University Dr Shirley Shen, Defence Science and Technology Group Professor Aidan Sims The University of New South Wales (New member in 2026) Professor Jill Slay Adelaide University Professor Scott Smith Adelaide University Professor Jennifer Smith-Merry The University of Sydney (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Georgy Sofronov Macquarie University Professor Dragana Stanley Central Queensland University Professor Michael Steel Macquarie University (New member in 2026) Professor Wendy Steele RMIT University Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens The University of Queensland Professor Rodney Stewart Griffith University Professor Michael Stockenhuber University of Technology Sydney Professor Kathryn Stok The University of Melbourne Professor Yvonne Stokes Adelaide University Professor Jan Strugnell James Cook University (New member in 2026) Professor Corrinne Sullivan Western Sydney University (New member in 2026) Professor Willy Susilo University of Wollongong Associate Professor Katie Sutton The Australian National University Professor Hang Ta Griffith University Professor Moses Tade Curtin University Professor Vivian Tam Western Sydney University Professor Ying Tan The University of Melbourne Professor Zahir Tari RMIT University Professor Michael Tausz The University of Melbourne Professor Ngamta (Natalie) Thamwattana The University of Newcastle Associate Professor Stuart Thickett University of Tasmania (New member in 2026) Professor Kevin Thomas The University of Queensland Professor William Thompson Bond University (New member in 2026) Professor Stefan Thor The University of Queensland Professor Susan Thorp The University of Sydney Associate Professor Steven Threadgold The University of Newcastle (New member in 2026) Professor Kristofer James Thurecht The University of Queensland Professor Valeska Ting The Australian National University (New member in 2026) Professor Yi-Chin Toh Queensland University of Technology Professor Adam Trevitt University of Wollongong Professor Antonio Tricoli The University of Sydney Professor Beata Ujvari Deakin University Associate Professor Celine Valant Monash University (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Thi Thu Hao Van RMIT University (New member in 2026) Dr Janet van Eersel - Macquarie University Professor Laurene Vaughan RMIT University Professor Peter Veitch Adelaide University Professor Jose Villadangos The University of Melbourne Professor Emanuele Viterbo Monash University Professor Sumeet Walia RMIT University Professor Sue Walker Southern Cross University Professor Matt Wand University of Technology Sydney Professor Guoxiu Wang University of Technology Sydney Professor Hua Wang Victoria University Professor Jingbo Wang The University of Western Australia Professor Lianzhou Wang The University of Queensland Professor Qilin Wang University of Technology Sydney Professor Shaobin Wang Adelaide University Professor Xiaolin Wang University of Wollongong (New member in 2026) Professor Alister Ward Deakin University Professor David Warton The University of New South Wales Professor Michelle Watt The University of Melbourne Professor Michael Wenzel Flinders University Professor Leslie Weston Charles Sturt University (New member in 2026) Professor Sarah Wheeler Flinders University (New member in 2026) Professor Andrea Whittaker Monash University Professor Rebecca Wickes Griffith University (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Steven Wiederman Adelaide University Professor Raelene Wilding La Trobe University Professor Kim Wilkins The University of Queensland Associate Professor Laura Wilson The Australian National University Professor Elaine Wong The University of Melbourne Professor Dan Woodman The University of Melbourne (New member in 2026) Professor Chris Wright The University of Sydney (New member in 2026) Professor Hongwei Wu Curtin University Professor Bo Xia Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2026) Professor Yang Xiang Swinburne University of Technology Dr Wei Xu Murdoch University Professor Jie Yang RMIT University Professor Irene Yarovsky RMIT University (New member in 2026) Professor Liu Ye The University of Queensland (New member in 2026) Professor Xiaoke Yi The University of Sydney Professor Tan Yigitcanlar Queensland University of Technology Professor Haibo Yu University of Wollongong Professor Mehmet Yuce Monash University Professor James Zanotti Adelaide University (New member in 2026) Associate Professor Jin Zhang The University of New South Wales (New member in 2026) Professor Xiwang Zhang The University of Queensland Professor Yixia (Sarah) Zhang University of Technology Sydney Professor Chun-xia Zhao Adelaide University (New member in 2026) Professor Zuduo 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