Fact Sheet (PDF 412KB)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 assessorsassessing and ranking ARC grant applications that have been submitted under the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP)moderating external assessmentsproviding recommendations for fundable applicationsassisting with recruiting through the nomination of new assessorsproviding advice for peer review reforms, andproviding 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 2025A complete list of the ARC College of Experts membership can be found below.There are currently 373 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 2025 Professor Amin Abbosh The University of Queensland Professor Igor Aharonovich University of Technology Sydney Associate Professor Emma Aisbett The Australian National University Associate Professor Morten Andersen Macquarie University (New member in 2025) Professor Barton Anderson The University of Sydney Professor Peter Anderson Griffith University (New member in 2025) Professor Gunther Andersson Flinders University Professor Mats Andersson Flinders University Professor Nigel Andrew Southern Cross University Professor Benjamin Andrews The Australian National University (New member in 2025) Professor Mikhail Anufriev University of Technology Professor Jayashree Arcot The University of New South Wales Professor Maziar Arjomandi The University of Adelaide Dr John Atack Griffith University (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Brett Baker The University of Melbourne (New member in 2025) Professor Sarah Baker Griffith University Professor Jie Bao The University of New South Wales Professor Katie Barclay The University of Adelaide Professor Colin Barrow Deakin University Professor Georgina Barton University of Southern Queensland (New member in 2025) 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 (New member in 2025) Professor Nicole Bell The University of Melbourne (New member in 2025) Professor Sarah Bell The University of Melbourne Professor Gabrielle Belz The University of Queensland Professor Bindi Bennett Federation University Australia Professor Christopher Berndt Swinburne University of Technology Associate Professor Jonathon Beves The University of New South Wales (New member in 2025) Professor Michael Bird James Cook University Professor David Bishop Victoria University Professor Colette Boskovic The University of Melbourne (New member in 2025) Professor Cyrille Boyer The University of New South Wales Professor David Bright Deakin University Professor Alexander Broom The University of Sydney Professor Lisa Brophy La Trobe University (New member in 2025) Professor Paula Brough Griffith University Professor Scott Brown The University of Newcastle (New member in 2025) Professor Katherine Buchanan Deakin University Emeritus Professor Deborah Bunker The University of Sydney (New member in 2025) Professor Paulomi (Polly) Burey University of Southern Queensland Professor Mark Byron The University of Sydney Professor Graziella Caprarelli University of Southern Queensland Associate Professor Nicholas Carah The University of Queensland Professor Michael Champion Australian Catholic University (New member in 2025) 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 (New member in 2025) Professor Ling Chen University of Technology Sydney Professor Zhong-Hua Chen The University of Adelaide Professor Kapil Chousalkar The University of Adelaide (New member in 2025) Dr Christofer Clemente University of the Sunshine Coast Professor Rachel Codd The University of Sydney (New member in 2025) Professor Catharine Coleborne The University of Newcastle Professor Alex Collie Monash University Professor Iain Collings Macquarie University (New member in 2025) Professor Alan Collins The University of Adelaide Professor Kyllie Cripps Monash University Professor Brenda Croft The Australian National University Professor Scott Croom The University of Sydney (New member in 2025) 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 Bruno David Monash University Professor Jan de Gier The University of Melbourne Dr Michael de Percy University of Canberra Professor Paulo de Souza Junior Edith Cowan University Professor Timothy Denham The Australian National University Professor Maggie Chuoyan Dong The University of New South Wales (New member in 2025) Professor Mirella Dottori University of Wollongong Professor Mark Dras Macquarie University (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Georgina Drew The University of Adelaide (New member in 2025) Professor Robin Drogemuller Queensland University of Technology Professor Christopher Drovandi Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2025) 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 Ullrich Ecker The University of Western Australia Professor David Edwards The University of Western Australia (New member in 2025) Professor Robert Edwards Flinders University Professor Mark Elgar The University of Melbourne Professor Nisvan Erkal The University of Melbourne Professor Paola Escudero Western Sydney University (New member in 2025) Professor Nir Eynon Monash University Professor Eduardo Eyras The Australian National University Professor Simon Farrell The University of Western Australia (New member in 2025) Professor Tanya Fitzgerald The University of Western Australia (New member in 2025) Professor Matthew Fitzpatrick Flinders University Dr James Flexner The University of Sydney (New member in 2025) Professor Stephen Foley Macquarie University Associate Professor Damien Fordham The University of Adelaide (New member in 2025) Professor Marcus Foth Queensland University of Technology Professor Adrian Franklin Professor Bronwyn Fredericks The University of Queensland Professor Marylène Gagné Curtin University (New member in 2025) Professor Philip Gale University of Technology Sydney Professor Alan Gamlen The Australian National University Professor Tamás (Tom) Gedeon Curtin University Associate Professor Stephanie Gilbert The University of Queensland Professor Matthew Gilliham The University of Adelaide Professor Gerard Goggin Western Sydney University Professor David Goodman The University of Sydney Professor Helena Grehan Edith Cowan University (New member in 2025) Professor Frank Grutzner The University of Adelaide Professor Ning Gu University of South Australia 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 Darren Halpin The Australian National University Professor Hugh Harris The University of Adelaide (New member in 2025) Professor Mark Harris Curtin University Associate Professor Karl Hassan The University of Newcastle (New member in 2025) Professor Michael Haugh The University of Queensland (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Sadie Heckenberg University of Tasmania Professor Alexander Heger Monash University Professor Begoña Heras La Trobe University Professor Larissa Hjorth RMIT University Professor Hinze Hogendoorn Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2025) Professor Katja Holtta-Otto The University of Melbourne Professor Steven Howard University of Wollongong Associate Professor Hui Hu Swinburne University of Technology Professor Yuxia Hu The University of Western Australia Professor Jun Huang The University of Sydney Professor Xiaodong Huang Swinburne University of Technology Professor Zi (Helen) Huang The University of Queensland Professor Thomas Huber The Australian National University (New member in 2025) Professor Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney Professor Mark Hughes Southern Cross University Professor Terry Hughes Professor Dr Daniel Hutto University of Wollongong Professor Christopher Hyland University of Wollongong (New member in 2025) Professor Marta Indulska The University of Queensland (New member in 2025) Professor Joanne Ingold Australian Catholic University (New member in 2025) Professor Michael Ireland The Australian National University Professor Marcel Jackson La Trobe University Professor Paul Jackson The University of Adelaide Professor Tanya Jakimow The Australian National University (New member in 2025) Professor Harald Janovjak Flinders University (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Guohua Jia Curtin University (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Zhongfan Jia Flinders University Professor Yijiao Jiang Macquarie University Professor Yan Jiao The University of Adelaide Professor Sarah Johnson The University of Newcastle (New member in 2025) Professor Tiffany Jones Macquarie University Dr Timothy Jones La Trobe University (New member in 2025) Professor Omid Kavehei The University of Sydney Professor Stuart Kaye University of Wollongong Professor Allison Kealy Swinburne University of Technology (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Ivan Kempson University of South Australia Professor Tristan Kennedy Monash University 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 (New member in 2025) Professor Levente Kiss University of Southern Queensland Professor Fima Klebaner Monash University Professor Jayantha Kodikara Monash University (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Shino Konishi The University of Western Australia (New member in 2025) Professor George Koutsantonis The University of Western Australia (New member in 2025) Professor Emma Kowal Deakin University (New member in 2025) Professor Sharad Kumar University of South Australia (New member in 2025) Professor Hamid Laga Murdoch University Associate Professor Girish Lakhwani The University of Sydney Associate Professor Shu Kee Lam The University of Melbourne (New member in 2025) Emeritus Professor Martin Lambert The University of Adelaide Professor Jo Lampert Monash University (New member in 2025) 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 Huijun Li University of Wollongong Associate Professor Jingliang Li Deakin University Professor Weihua Li University of Wollongong Professor Xiaodong Li RMIT University Professor Anthony Licata The Australian National University (New member in 2025) Professor Timothy Lindsey The University of Melbourne Professor Dikai Liu University of Technology Sydney (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Sonia Liu The University of Sydney (New member in 2025) Professor Xia-Ji Liu Swinburne University of Technology Professor Yun Liu The Australian National University Professor Zhe Liu The University of Melbourne Professor Samanthika Liyanapathirana Western Sydney University Professor Seng Loke Deakin University Professor Megan Lord The University of New South Wales (New member in 2025) Professor Julien Louys Griffith University (New member in 2025) Professor Heather Lovell University of Tasmania Professor Susan Luckman University of South Australia Professor Jun Ma University of South Australia Professor Qian Ma RMIT University Professor Tianyi Ma RMIT University (New member in 2025) Professor Alexander Mackay University of Wollongong Professor Robert Mailhammer Western Sydney University (New member in 2025) Professor Pushkar Maitra Monash University Professor Elena Marchetti Griffith University Professor Timothy Marjoribanks Swinburne University of Technology Professor Dr Lina Markauskaite The University of Sydney Professor Christopher Marsden Monash University Professor Andrew Martin The University of Melbourne Professor Anthony Masters The University of Sydney Professor Jane Matthews Deakin University (New member in 2025) Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart University of New England Professor Janet McColl-Kennedy The University of Queensland (New member in 2025) Professor James McCoy The University of Newcastle (New member in 2025) Professor Scott McCue Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2025) Professor Richard McDermid Macquarie University (New member in 2025) Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra Monash University Associate Professor Simon McIlroy Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2025) Professor Gavan McNally The University of New South Wales Professor Saad Mekhilef Swinburne University of Technology Associate Professor Andrew Merchant The University of Sydney (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Melissa Merritt The University of New South Wales (New member in 2025) Professor Frederic Meunier The University of Queensland Emeritus Professor Richard Middleton The University of Newcastle Professor David Miller James Cook University Professor Catherine Mills Monash University Professor Paul Mills The University of Queensland Professor Budiman Minasny The University of Sydney Professor Michael Mintrom Monash University Professor Peta Mitchell Queensland University of Technology Professor Angela Moles The University of New South Wales Emeritus Professor Janet Mooney Australian Catholic University (New member in 2025) Professor James Morley The University of Sydney Associate Professor Markus Muellner The University of Sydney Professor Ivan Nagelkerken The University of Adelaide (New member in 2025) Professor Michael Negnevitsky University of Tasmania Professor Bronwen Neil Macquarie University Professor Alexander Newman The University of Melbourne Professor Tuan Ngo The University of Melbourne Professor Nam-Trung Nguyen Griffith University Professor Thuy (Kate) Nguyen RMIT University Professor Bing-Jie Ni The University of New South Wales Professor Adrienne Nicotra The Australian National University (New member in 2025) Professor Mark Nielsen The University of Queensland Professor Karin Nordstrom Flinders University (New member in 2025) Professor Melissa Nursey-Bray The University of Adelaide Professor Brian Oliver University of Technology Sydney (New member in 2025) Professor Anthony O’Mullane Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2025) Professor Sarah O’Shea Charles Sturt University (New member in 2025) Professor Gottfried Otting The Australian National University (New member in 2025) Professor Maurice Pagnucco The University of New South Wales (New member in 2025) Professor Stephen Palmisano University of Wollongong (New member in 2025) Professor Anna Paradowska The University of Sydney Professor Sora Park University of Canberra Professor Christine Parker The University of Melbourne (New member in 2025) Professor Helen Partridge Deakin University 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 (New member in 2025) Professor Son Lam Phung University of Wollongong (New member in 2025) Professor Maxine Piggott Charles Darwin University (New member in 2025) Professor Michael Piper The University of Queensland Associate Professor Sally Plush University of South Australia Professor Roger Pocock Monash University Dr Kellie Pollard Charles Darwin University Professor Phillip Pope Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2025) Professor Emily Potter Deakin University (New member in 2025) Professor Christopher Poulton University of Technology Sydney (New member in 2025) Professor Jeff Powell Western Sydney University (New member in 2025) Professor Malin Premaratne Monash University (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Erin Price University of the Sunshine Coast Professor Gavin Prideaux Flinders University Professor Gwenaelle Proust The University of Sydney Professor Tara Pukala The University of Adelaide Professor Julia Quilter University of Wollongong Professor Colin Raston AO FFA Flinders University (New member in 2025) Professor Zed Rengel The University of Western Australia (New member in 2025) Professor Jack Reynolds Deakin University (New member in 2025) Professor Jonathan Rhodes Queensland University of Technology (New member in 2025) Professor Charles Rice University of Technology Sydney Associate Professor Amanda Ridley The University of Western Australia (New member in 2025) 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 Andrew Rosser The University of Melbourne Professor Dong Ruan Swinburne University of Technology (New member in 2025) Professor Sharyn Rundle-Thiele Griffith University (New member in 2025) 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 (New member in 2025) Professor Peter Scammells Monash University (New member in 2025) Professor Marie Segrave Monash University Professor Jan Seidel The University of New South Wales Professor Cordelia Selomulya The University of New South Wales Professor Iman Shames The Australian National University Professor Luming Shen The University of Sydney Dr Shirley Shen, Defence Science and Technology Group Professor Michael Sherburn The Australian National University Professor Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky Charles Sturt University Professor Ho Kyong Shon University of Technology Sydney Professor Helen Skouteris Monash University Professor Jill Slay University of South Australia Professor Scott Smith The University of Adelaide (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Georgy Sofronov Macquarie University (New member in 2025) Professor Chongmin Song The University of New South Wales Professor Dragana Stanley Central Queensland University (New member in 2025) Professor Wendy Steele RMIT University Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens The University of Queensland (New member in 2025) Professor Rodney Stewart Griffith University (New member in 2025) Professor Michael Stockenhuber The University of Newcastle Professor Natalie Stoianoff University of Technology Sydney Professor Kathryn Stok The University of Melbourne Professor Yvonne Stokes The University of Adelaide Professor Hongqi Sun The University of Western Australia Professor Willy Susilo University of Wollongong Associate Professor Katie Sutton The Australian National University (New member in 2025) Professor Hang Ta Griffith University Professor Moses Tade Curtin University Professor Vivian Tam Western Sydney University (New member in 2025) 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 Professor Kevin Thomas The University of Queensland (New member in 2025) Professor Stefan Thor The University of Queensland (New member in 2025) Professor Susan Thorp The University of Sydney Professor Kristofer James Thurecht The University of Queensland Professor Yi-Chin Toh Queensland University of Technology Professor Adam Trevitt University of Wollongong Professor Antonio Tricoli The University of Sydney (New member in 2025) Professor Jakelin Troy The University of Sydney Professor Myfany Turpin The University of Sydney Professor Beata Ujvari Deakin University Dr Janet van Eersel Macquarie University (New member in 2025) Professor Laurene Vaughan RMIT University Professor Peter Veitch The University of Adelaide (New member in 2025) Professor Jose Villadangos The University of Melbourne (New member in 2025) Professor Emanuele Viterbo Monash University (New member in 2025) Professor Sumeet Walia RMIT University Professor Sue Walker Southern Cross University Professor Matt Wand University of Technology Sydney (New member in 2025) Professor Guoxiu Wang University of Technology Sydney (New member in 2025) 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 (New member in 2025) Professor Shaobin Wang The University of Adelaide Professor Alister Ward Deakin University Professor David Warton The University of New South Wales (New member in 2025) Professor Michelle Watt The University of Melbourne Professor Michael Wenzel Flinders University Professor Andrea Whittaker Monash University (New member in 2025) Associate Professor Steven Wiederman The University of Adelaide (New member in 2025) Professor Raelene Wilding La Trobe University (New member in 2025) Professor Kim Wilkins The University of Queensland Associate Professor Laura Wilson The Australian National University (New member in 2025) Professor Withawat Withayachumnankul The University of Adelaide Professor Elaine Wong The University of Melbourne Professor Hongwei Wu Curtin University Professor Moe Wynn Queensland University of Technology Professor Yang Xiang Swinburne University of Technology Professor Yusuke Yamauchi The University of Queensland Professor Jie Yang RMIT University (New member in 2025) Professor Xiaoke Yi The University of Sydney (New member in 2025) Professor Tan Yigitcanlar Queensland University of Technology Professor Haibo Yu University of Wollongong Professor Mehmet Yuce Monash University (New member in 2025) Professor Yixia (Sarah) Zhang University of Technology Sydney Professor Xiwang Zhang The University of Queensland (New member in 2025) Professor Zuduo Zheng The University of Queensland (New member in 2025) Professor Yu Lin Zhong Griffith University (New member in 2025) Professor Jun Zhou Griffith University « First ‹ Previous Next › Last » Previous Years College of Expert Members2024 College of Expert Members2023 College of Expert Members2022 College of Expert Members2021 College of Expert Members2020 College of Expert Members