2012 thomson reuters australia citation & innovation awards

2012 THOMSON REUTERS AUSTRALIA
CITATION & INNOVATION AWARDS
30 MAY 2012, NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, CANBERRA
How Australia is influencing the global research
and innovation landscape

2012 THOMSON REUTERS AUSTRALIA
CITATION & INNOVATION AWARDS
30 MAY 2012, NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, CANBERRA
WELCOME 02
PROGRAM 03
SPEAKERS 04
METHODOLOGY 09
PROFILES OF THE AWARDEES 1 1
ABOUT THOMSON REUTERS 22
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WELCOME
Welcome to the 2012 Thomson Reuters Citation & Innovation Awards!
Australia produces over 3% of scholarly and scientific research worldwide. However, in certain fields
Australia’s world share is much higher from 4% to nearly 6%. These fields include environment and
ecology, geosciences and space science. Not only is Australia contributing more in these fields, the
citation impact of this research is 30-50% higher than world average.
If we use patenting activity as an indicator of innovation, Australia showed a decline following the global
financial crisis, but recent Australian Patent Office data indicates there has been an upturn in patent
filings which may be a sign of a turnaround in innovation activity.
Performance indicators based on publication, citation and patent data provide one perspective on
research and innovation activity, however expert opinion will always help to complete the picture.
Thomson Reuters is pleased to showcase some of our top performers in the industry and also bring
together key players in the sector to address the theme of “how Australia is influencing the global
research and innovation landscape”.
We welcome our distinguished speakers to the event. Citation Award winners Professor Ove Hoegh-
Guldberg, University of Queensland and Professor Colin MacLeod, University of Western Australia,
will be providing an academic perspective on Australia’s role and performance in innovation. Dr Chris
Roberts as CEO of Cochlear Ltd will be providing the viewpoint from a corporate perspective.
This will be followed by the lunchtime address, which will be a moderated discussion with Professor
Brian Schmidt, Nobel Laureate for Physics and previous Thomson Reuters Citation Award winner
and Dr Alan Finkel, Chancellor of Monash University and President-elect of the Academy of
Technological Sciences and Engineering.
In addition, today is an opportunity for Thomson Reuters to recognise Australia’s excellence with twelve
Australian researchers and seven Australian organisations selected to receive awards in recognition
of their outstanding contribution to research and innovation. Details on the award winners and
methodology can be found in this program.
We thank you for being part of this prestigious event and look forward to the ongoing dialogue in the
innovation ecosystem.
Jeroen Prinsen
Senior Director Australasia
P: +61 2 85877948
jeroen.prinsen@thomsonreuters.com
ip-science.thomsonreuters.com.au
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PROGRAM
Time Session Speaker
8:30am Registration and morning tea
9:00am Welcome Address Anna-Maria Arabia
CEO
Science & Technology Australia
9:10am The Science and Art of Using Citation
Indicators to Identify Exceptional Scientists and their
Impact
9:25am Presentation of the 2012 Thomson Reuters
Citation Awards
9:40am How Australia is influencing the global research and
innovation landscape: academic perspective
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Cynthia Murphy
Senior Vice President, IP Solutions
Thomson Reuters
David Pendlebury
Bibliometric Consultant
Thomson Reuters
Cynthia Murphy
Senior Vice President, IP Solutions
Thomson Reuters
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
University of Queensland
Professor Colin MacLeod
University of Western Australia
10:00am Introduction to the Innovation Awards Cynthia Murphy
Senior Vice President, IP Solutions
Thomson Reuters
10:05am How Australia is influencing the global research and
innovation landscape: corporate perspective
Dr Chris Roberts
CEO
Cochlear Ltd
10:25am Metrics & methodology for Innovation awards Dr Nicola Lake
IP Solutions Strategist
Thomson Reuters
10:40am Presentation of the 2012 Thomson Reuters
Innovation Awards
Dr Chris Roberts
CEO
Cochlear Ltd
10:55am Thanks and close Cynthia Murphy
Senior Vice President, IP Solutions
Thomson Reuters
11:00am Networking Break
11:45am Lunch served
12:30pm Introduction of keynote speakers Laurie Wilson
President
National Press Club
12:35 –
1:30pm
Lunchtime address televised by
National Press Club
Moderated discussion:
Professor Brian Schmidt
Nobel prize winner 2011
Australian National University
and
Dr Alan Finkel
Chancellor
Monash University

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Brian P. Schmidt is a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research
Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the Australian National University’s
Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He
currently holds an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship.
Brian shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize
in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Reis for providing evidence that the
expansion of the universe is accelerating. He is also a previous Thomson Reuters
Citation Award winner from 2008.
Brian makes wine and enjoys cooking. He and his wife are owners of the winery
Maipenrai, a winery in Sutton Australia which has been rated a four-star winery.
At the 2011 Nobel Prize Ceremonies in Stockholm, he presented the King Carl XVI
Gustaf of Sweden with a bottle of his wine.
Dr Alan Finkel AM PhD FTSE is Chancellor of Monash University and presidentelect
of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is
a co-founder and chairman of Cosmos Media, publisher of Cosmos Magazine, and
he is the chairman of the Australian Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics,
known as CAASTRO.
In addition to an on-going property business, Alan’s most recent employment was
as the Chief Technology Officer of Better Place Australia, a company that provides
clean energy to run Australia’s growing fleet of electric cars. Previously, for twenty
years Alan was the CEO of Axon Instruments, an ASX-listed, American company
that made precision scientific instruments used by researchers at pharmaceutical
companies and universities for the discovery of new medicines.
Alan established and chairs the Australian Course in Advanced Neuroscience to
provide advanced training to young scientists and he established a secondary
school science program named STELR that is currently running in nearly 300
secondary schools around Australia.
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SPEAKERS
Anna-Maria Arabia is CEO of Science & Technology Australia. Previously
Anna-Maria was a senior policy advisor to Anthony Albanese, Federal
Infrastructure Minister, and was social policy advisor to former Labor Leader, Kim
Beazley. Anna-Maria is a trained scientist completing a Bachelor of Science at the
University of Melbourne and has undertaken post-graduate research at the Baker
Heart Research Institute in Melbourne, and the Mario Negri Pharmacological
Research Institute in Milan.
Cynthia Murphy is senior vice president for Thomson Reuters IP Solutions. She
is responsible for overall management of the Innovation & Asset Management
business, including commercial strategy and operations. Cynthia is a twenty-two
year veteran of Thomson Reuters in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility.
Prior to joining IP Solutions, she was senior vice president, strategic marketing
for Dialog, responsible for world-wide planning and implementation of product
development, marketing, communications and customer service programs.
Previously, Cynthia served as commercial director at Sweet & Maxwell, where she
was accountable for all aspects of the launch and the subsequent commercial
success of Westlaw UK; and she held several positions at West in the sales
organisation. Cynthia started her professional career as a law librarian in Boston.
She is a graduate of the University of Maine and holds a master’s degree in library
and information sciences from Simmons College.
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SPEAKERS
David A. Pendlebury joined the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now
Thomson Reuters, in 1983, after graduate studies in ancient history. He began as
a translator and indexer and later worked with ISI’s founder Eugene Garfield on
personal research projects. In 1987, he developed and edited the research pages
of the newspaper The Scientist. Two years later, he joined the company’s research
department, under Henry Small, to launch the newsletter Science Watch, now in
its 23rd year.
For twelve years, until 2004, David was manager of the department’s contract
research services for government agencies, universities, corporations, and
science publishers worldwide, during which time contract research projects
increased significantly. With Henry and other departmental staff, he designed
and developed Essential Science Indicators, a primary database for quantitative
analysis of performance and trends in global research.
David now serves as a consultant to Thomson Reuters on bibliometric analysis.
He has also written on research metrics and evaluation for the Times Higher
Education magazine and a variety of other publications.
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (BSc Hons., Sydney; PhD. UCLA) is the inaugural
Director of the Global Change Institute (GCI) (www.gci.uq.edu.au) and Professor
of Marine Science, at The University of Queensland (UQ) (www.uq.edu.au),
Brisbane, Australia. He is deeply-motivated by a desire to communicate science
effectively, undertake game-changing research and to find high-impact solutions
to address several of the most pressing and serious challenges facing humanity
worldwide, such as climate change, food security, clean energy and population
growth.
As Director of the GCI Ove has a key role in engaging with the UQ community
and external stakeholders to create opportunities and build strong external
links and networks for the institute. He heads a large research laboratory (over
30 researchers & students) that focuses on how global warming and ocean
acidification are affecting and will affect coral reefs.
Ove has held academic positions at UCLA, Stanford University, The University
of Sydney and The University of Queensland and is a member of the Australian
Climate Group; the Royal Society (London) Marine Advisory Network; and
the Board of Editing Reviewers at Science Magazine. In 1999 he was awarded
the Eureka Prize for his scientific research. He is the Queensland Smart State
Premier’s Fellow (2008-2013).
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SPEAKERS
Professor Colin MacLeod is Winthrop Professor of Psychology, Australian
Research Council Professorial Fellow, and Director of the Elizabeth Rutherford
Memorial Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion (CARE), at the
University of Western Australia (UWA). Colin completed training both as a
cognitive psychologist, carrying out his research doctorate in this field at Oxford
University, and as a clinician, undertaking clinical psychology training at the
Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. Across his subsequent career, he
has sought to harness these two distinctive facets of his discipline to shed light
on the cognitive basis of emotional vulnerability and pathology. His work has
been guided by three complementary objectives: 1) to delineate the patterns of
selective information processing that characterise emotional vulnerability and
dysfunction; 2) to determine the causal nature of the association between each
such processing bias and emotional disposition; and 3) to design and evaluate
methods of attenuating emotional vulnerability by directly altering the cognitive
biases that operate to functionally sustain it. He has played a major role in the
development of influential new intervention approaches that contribute to the
treatment of emotional dysfunction, and related clinical conditions, through the
use of computer-based cognitive bias modification procedures.
Colin joined the Australian tertiary sector in 1987, and commenced his position
at The University of Western Australia in 1989. Since then, his research has
been continuously funded by the Australian Research Council, and by a range
of international granting agencies. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of
Social Sciences in Australia in 2002. Colin has held recent editorial positions
with the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Cognitive Therapy and Research, the
Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, and Emotion, and
has carried out a wide variety of responsibilities within the Australian University
context. He has served as Head of Psychology, Associate Dean of Research, Chair
of Academic Board, acting Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation), national
auditor for Australian University Quality Agency, and international auditor for
overseas university quality agencies, including South Africa’s Council of Higher
Education, and Saudi Arabia’s National Commission for Academic Accreditation
and Assessment.
Dr Chris Roberts has been the CEO of Cochlear Limited (ASX:COH) since February
2004. He has over 36 years experience in international medical device businesses,
including renal (dialysis), orthopaedics (electrical bone growth stimulation),
cardiology (pacemakers), respiratory and sleep medicine (CPAP) and otology
(cochlear implants).
He served on the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
(2003–2006). Chris is a director of ResMed Ltd and Research Australia,
(Chairman of Research Australia from 2004-2010). He is a member of: The New
South Wales Innovation and Productivity Council; the UNSW Faculty of Medicine
Advisory Council; the Macquarie University Foundation Board of Patrons and; the
University of Technology Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Industrial Advisory Board.
Chris holds a BE in Chemical Engineering (Honours) (UNSW), an MBA (Macquarie),
a PhD (UNSW), and a HonDSc (Macquarie). He is a Fellow of the Academy of
Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE), Fellow of the Australian Institute
of Company Directors (FAICD), and Fellow of The Institution of Engineers Australia
(FIEAust).
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SPEAKERS
Dr Nicola Lake is a Melbourne-based Consultant within the Thomson Reuters
IP Analytics Group delivering research and analysis projects to clients. She
also provides expert insight and best practice knowledge on Thomson Reuters’
products and services.
Nicola formulated the methodology for the Thomson Reuters Innovation Awards
2012 together with Bob Stembridge, a London-based Customer Relations
Manager. Bob was a pivotal member of the team responsible for the methodology
behind the “Thomson Reuters Top 100 Innovators Program”. He has over 35 years
of experience working with patent data and is (among other things) a member
of the Patent Information User Group (PIUG) and the current Secretary of the
Confederacy of European Patent Information User Group (CEPIUG).
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Nicola worked for 8 years as an Australian
Patent Attorney. For the last 5 years she worked together with Peter Huntsman in
the Materials Science group at Davies Collison Cave (DCC). Before joining DCC,
she undertook her traineeship at Madderns Patent and TM Attorneys based in
Adelaide, South Australia.
Nicola’s background in chemistry brought her to Australia in 2000 to undertake
a Ph.D. in Applied Science at the Ian Wark Research Institute (“The Wark”). She
also has a Masters in IP from the University of Technology Sydney, a Masters in the
Management of IP from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
and a First Class Honours degree in Chemistry with Law from the University of
Essex.
Laurie Wilson has been a director of the National Press Club since 1992. He
succeeded Ken Randall as President in 2010 having previously served as the
NPC’s Treasurer.
Laurie is a freelance journalist and consultant. He is a former political correspondent
and Canberra Bureau Chief for the 7 Network, political correspondent for the 9
Network and Secretary of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery.
He began his career in the media as a proofreader on The Canberra Times while
still at university and has worked both as a journalist and in media management.
He was a senior reporter and news anchor for the 7 Network in Melbourne; was
appointed General Manager (Corporate & Government Relations) and Group
General Manager (Broadcasting) of the regional Victorian broadcast group Vic-
TV; and has worked in a number of other management and board roles including
a period as Executive Director of International Public Relations P/L and as a
director of the Wesgo radio network.
He studied journalism and economics at the University of Canberra and completed
postgraduate studies in business administration at Melbourne’s Swinburne
University of Technology.
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WINNERS 2012
Methodology - Citation Awards 2012
This exploration of Australian research began with an identification of fields which were strengths for the
country, by a combination of three criteria: first, how many papers Australian researchers published; second,
how great a proportion of the field globally Australian research represented; and third, the level of impact,
measured in citations, relative to global performance in the field.
The next step was to consider individuals who contribute to those fields. All Australian-affiliated authors
from papers published between 2002 and October 2011, in journals indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Web of
Science, were reviewed. A shortlist of researchers in each field was established by finding those authors who
had published a given number of papers, each of which had been cited that given number of times – a metric
called the h-index. This meant that only researchers who had made a strong contribution in terms of both
quality and quantity were considered. Because field activity can vary widely, adjustments were made in the
threshold levels for each field to eliminate false leads and focus on those researchers with substantial and
long-term contributions.
The shortlist was then ranked by average citations per paper received, and the highest ranking author currently
and actively producing research output was identified. This ensured that researchers would be selected who
had a proven track record of high-impact research over the course of the ten year period. Where variation
between the top and second ranked candidates was less than one citation per article, a second metric, average
percentile, was used to differentiate them. This metric looks at how highly ranked a paper is by citations
against papers of the same type, published in the same year and in the same field, thereby allowing accurate
comparison of the candidates’ impact.
Field of Study Names Institution H-Index Cites Publications
Astronomy &
Astrophysics
Biochemistry &
Molecular Biology
Biodiversity
Conservation
Professor
Karl Glazebrook
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Swinburne
University of
Technology
Professor Terry Speed Walter and Eliza
Hall Institute of
Medical Research
Dr Jane Elith University of
Melbourne
Ecology Professor
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
University of
Queensland
69 22,245 181
51 19,623 263
25 2,986 42
39 8,623 172
Economics Dr Tommy Wiedmann CSIRO 15 574 25
Environmental Studies Dr Shaobin Wang Curtin University 32 3,018 129
Geosciences Professor
Kurt Lambeck
Immunology Professor
Fabienne Mackay
Australian
National
University
Monash
University
Neurosciences Dr Greg Stuart Australian
National
University
52 9,682 217
46 8,297 105
39 6,585 71
Plant Sciences Professor Rana Munns CSIRO 45 9,848 114
Psychology Professor
Colin MacLeod
Public, Environmental
& Occupational Health
University
of Western
Australia
Dr Evie Leslie Flinders
University
25 5,062 53
18 2,149 36

CITATION & INNOVATION AWARD
WINNERS 2012
Methodology - Innovation Awards 2012
The methodology used to determine the 2012 Australian Innovation Award winners is based closely on the
methodology used in the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators Program. The methodology used
to determine the Top 100 Global Innovators was developed by Thomson Reuters and discussed with and
approved by several IP-savvy, external organisations.
This is the first time Thomson Reuters has awarded innovation and entrepreneurship in Australia. Seven
awards are presented: Large Corporate and SME Corporate (Biotechnology/Medical Devices), Large Corporate
and SME Corporate (Technology), Government Funded R&D, University R&D and Best Academic/Corporate
Collaboration. The awards recognise Australian innovation resulting from institutions and large and Smallto-Medium
sized (SME) commercial enterprises headquartered in Australia. Australian SME Corporations are
those with less than 200 employees.
The research and analyses used to determine the award winners was performed using Thomson Reuters’
Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI), Thomson Innovation®, the Thomson Reuters IP intelligence and
collaboration platform, and Thomson Data Analyzer®. Four indicators were used to determine the winners:
• VOLUME: The top 10 most prolific patent filers in Australia over the last 5 years were identified. These
organisations became the “candidate organisations”.
• SUCCESS: For each candidate organisation, the number of granted patents to total number of new
inventions filed in the last 5 years was used as a measure of “success”.
• GLOBALISATION: The number of inventions filed in the last 5 years that have quadrilateral patents in their
patent families, according to the Thomson Reuters Quadrilateral Patent Index was calculated for each
candidate organisation.
• INFLUENCE: The impact of an invention can be determined by looking at how often it is subsequently
cited down the line. Citation counts were determined for each of the candidate organisations to provide a
measure of the “influence” of their inventions filed in the last 5 years.
These indicators were used in combination to identify the 2012 Australian Innovation Award winners.
Category Organisation
Corporate – Bio/Med (Large) ResMed
Corporate – Bio/Med (SME) CathRx
Corporate – Tech (Large) Rio Tinto
Corporate – Tech (SME) Demain Technology
Government Funded Grains Research & Development Corporation
University University of New South Wales
Collaboration University of Queensland & Eden Innovation
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CITATION AWARDEES
Research Field: Astronomy & Astrophysics
Professor Karl Glazebrook
Swinburne University of Technology
John Street, Hawthorn
VIC 3122
Professor Karl Glazebrook is a University Distinguished Professor at Swinburne
University. Karl’s research involves the areas of galaxy evolution over cosmic time,
cosmology and astronomical instrumentation; he is an observational astronomer
who uses large telescopes on the ground such as Keck, Gemini and the Hubble
Space Telescope.
Originally from the UK, Karl completed his PhD at Edinburgh (1992) and postdoctoral
work in Durham and Cambridge before becoming a Staff Astronomer at
the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney. Karl became a Professor at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore in the year 2000 and moved to Swinburne in
2006.
Research Field: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Professor Terry Speed
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
1G Royal Parade, Parkville
VIC 3052
Professor Terry Speed is head of the Bioinformatics Division of the Walter & Eliza
Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). Originally trained in mathematics and
statistics, he has had a lifelong interest in genetics.
After teaching mathematics and statistics in universities in Australia and the
United Kingdom, and a spell in the CSIRO’s Division of Mathematics and Statistics,
he went to the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley
(UC Berkeley) in 1987. Since that time his research and teaching interests have
concerned the application of statistics to genetics and molecular biology. Within
that subfield, eventually to be named bioinformatics, his interests are broad,
including biomolecular sequence analysis, the mapping of genes in experimental
animals and humans, and functional genomics.
He has been particularly involved in the low-level analysis of microarray data,
and more recently, of next-generation DNA sequence analysis. From 1997 to
2009 he split his time 50:50 between WEHI and UC Berkeley. In 2009 he took up
an NHMRC Australia Fellowship at WEHI and became emeritus professor at UC
Berkeley, but he still has students, postdocs and collaborators there.
*Mrs Freda Speed will be accepting this award on behalf Professor Terry Speed.
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CITATION AWARDEES
Research Field: Biodiversity Conservation
Dr Jane Elith
The University of Melbourne
Environmental Science
School of Botany, Melbourne
VIC 3010
Dr Jane Elith is appointed as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne,
funded by an ARC Future Fellowship. Her research spans theoretical,
methodological, and applied aspects of methods for modelling and predicting
distributions of species and communities, reflecting her interest in biodiversity
and conservation and attraction towards quantitative methods.
Jane’s projects have spanned terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems,
with a substantial emphasis on finding appropriate methods and making them
accessible to end-users. Most recently Jane has started working on problems
associated with modelling non-equilibrial situations, exploring appropriate
methods for predicting both the potential spread of invasive species and the likely
responses of the biota to climate change.
*Mr Michael Bode, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s
School of Botany will be accepting this award on behalf of Dr Jane Elith.
Research Field: Ecology
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
The University of Queensland
Global Change Institute
St Lucia
QLD 4072
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (BSc Hons., Sydney; PhD. UCLA) is the inaugural
Director of the Global Change Institute (GCI) (www.gci.uq.edu.au) and Professor of
Marine Science, at The University of Queensland (UQ) (www.uq.edu.au), Brisbane,
Australia. He is deeply-motivated by a desire to communicate science effectively,
undertake game-changing research and to find high-impact solutions to address
several of the most pressing and serious challenges facing humanity worldwide,
such as climate change, food security, clean energy and population growth.
As Director of the GCI Ove has a key role in engaging with the UQ community and
external stakeholders to create opportunities and build strong external links and
networks for the institute. He heads a large research laboratory (over 30 researchers
& students) that focuses on how global warming and ocean acidification are
affecting and will affect coral reefs.
Ove has held academic positions at UCLA, Stanford University, The University
of Sydney and The University of Queensland and is a member of the Australian
Climate Group; the Royal Society (London) Marine Advisory Network; and the
Board of Editing Reviewers at Science Magazine. In 1999 he was awarded the
Eureka Prize for his scientific research. He is the Queensland Smart State Premier’s
Fellow (2008-2013).
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Research Field: Economics
Dr Thomas Wiedmann
CSIRO
Ecosystem Sciences
Ross Street, Black Mountain
ACT 2601
Dr Thomas (Tommy) Wiedmann is a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO
Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra, where he is involved with CSIRO’s Integrated
Carbon Pathways project. His research fields are environmental input-output
analysis, industrial ecology and sustainable consumption and production. Tommy
develops and applies methods and models for integrated sustainability and
scenario analysis. In 2009, he was the guest editor of a special issue of the journal
Economic Systems Research on ‘Carbon Footprint and Input-Output Analysis’.
Tommy is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Integrated
Sustainability Analysis (ISA) in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney
and Director at the Centre for Sustainability Accounting (CenSA) in York, UK.
He has coordinated a number of research projects funded by European, UK and
Australian Governments. Tommy holds a PhD in environmental and analytical
chemistry from the University Of Ulm, Germany.
Research Field: Environmental Studies
Dr Shaobin Wang
Curtin University of Technology
Department of Chemical Engineering
GPO Box U1987, Perth
WA 6001
Dr Shaobin Wang graduated from the University of Queensland with a PhD
degree in chemical engineering. Currently he is an associate professor at
Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University. His research areas focus
on Nanomaterials, applied catalysis and environmental engineering. He has
published more than 180 refereed journal and conference papers and he is on the
editorial board of several international journals in catalysis and environmental
science.
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CITATION AWARDEES
Research Field: Geosciences
Professor Kurt Lambeck
Australian National University Research School of Earth Sciences
Canberra
ACT 0200
Professor Kurt Lambeck’s research deals with the motions and deformations of the Earth, on time scales from
hours to millions of years, with the objective of understanding the forces that shape the planet, including
the interactions of the oceans, atmosphere and cryosphere with the solid part of the earth. He is the leading
proponent of developing and integrating geodetic methods with other geoscience disciplines of geophysics,
geology and environmental science and over a career of more than three decades he has played a central role
in most of the significant advances in this field.
His studies have led to improved understanding of the orbital movements of earth satellites, of the dynamics
of the Earth system, and to predictive models of the planet’s behaviour. These contributions have crossed
diverse sub-disciplines of geoscience but they all have the common goal of understanding the dynamics of the
Earth system over a broad range of time and length scales.
Kurt Lambeck is the immediate past president of the Australian Academy of Science and professor emeritus at
the Australian National University. Currently he holds a Blaise Pascal Chair at the Ecole Normale Superieure,
Paris. He is, amongst others, a member of the Royal Society, the French Academy of Science, and the US
National Academy of Science.
*Mr Andrew P. Roberts, Director Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University
will be accepting this award on behalf of Professor Kurt Lambeck.
Research Field: Immunology
Professor Fabienne Mackay
Monash University
Department of Immunology
Alfred Medical Research & Education Precinct (AMREP)
Level 2, Monash University Building
Commercial Road, Melbourne
VIC 3004
Professor Fabienne Mackay obtained her Ph D in 1994 at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg under the
co-supervision of Dr Werner Lesslauer (Hoffmann La Roche, Basel Switzerland) and Prof. Diane Mathis (now
at the Joslin Institute Boston USA). In 1994, Fabienne joined Biogen Idec Inc. in Boston where she dissected
the role of a TNF-like ligand lymphotoxin-alpha/beta in autoimmunity and cancer. This work led to many
patents and the development of two new treatments currently tested in the clinic.
In 2000, Fabienne joined the Garvan Institute in Sydney as a Welcome Trust senior research fellow and was
awarded a NHMRC program grant. Fabienne’s lab at the Garvan discovered the role of a new molecule named
BAFF as a key B cell survival factor essential for the maturation of B-lymphocytes but also playing a role in
autoimmunity, and became the leading group on BAFF research. In March 2006, Fabienne was appointed
to Director of the Autoimmunity Research Unit and adjunct full professor at the Faculty of medicine of the
University of New South Wales. Fabienne is a consultant for several biotech and pharmaceutical groups. In
2007, she joined the national director board of the Australian Society of Medical Research (ASMR). In 2008,
she was the NSW representative for the NHMRC Association for Research Fellows (NARF). Fabienne is an
associate editor for several scientific journals including the Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research and the
European Journal of Immunology.
In March 2009, Fabienne became the 5th Chair of the Department of Immunology, Monash University, AMREP
campus. In July 2009, belimumab, a therapeutic antibody neutralising BAFF has met the primary endpoints
in a phase III clinical trial with lupus patients and run by GSK and Human Genome Sciences. This clinical
outcome validated a decade of Fabienne’s work on BAFF and autoimmunity.
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CITATION AWARDEES
Research Field: Neuroscience
Professor Greg Stuart
The Australian National University
ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment
Canberra
ACT 0200
Professor Greg Stuart is currently Head of the Eccles Institute of Neuroscience at
the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University.
He did his undergraduate at Monash University, majoring in Physiology, before
going on to do a PhD in Neuroscience at the ANU. He has developed and pioneered
methods that have allowed neuroscientists to probe the function of nerve cells at
an unprecedented level, and is considered a world expert on the physiology of
neuronal dendrites.
He has received a number of national and international fellowships and awards,
and was recently appointed to the Australian Academy of Science in recognition
of his seminal contributions to understanding how information is processed by
individual nerve cells within the brain.
*Professor Andrew Cockburn, Director ANU College of Medicine, Biology and
Environment will be accepting this award on behalf of Professor Greg Stuart.
Research Field: Plant Sciences
Professor Rana Munns
CSIRO
Plant Industry
Black Mountain Laboratories Clunies
Ross Street, Black Mountain
ACT 2601
Professor Rana Munns has worked towards improving crop production on soils
that are dry or saline. She is now Honorary Fellow at CSIRO Plant Industry in
Canberra, as well as Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia.
She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. She is recognised
internationally for her insights into the fundamental principles of salt tolerance,
and for the applications of these insights.
She characterised the critical processes for tolerance of salinity stress, and
showed how these differ from tolerance of drought stress. This work produced a
highly sensitive technique for identifying salt tolerant plants, and the discovery
of important genes for salt tolerance. She led a research team that discovered
novel genes for controlling sodium transport in ancestral wheat, crossed them
into modern durum wheat, and showed that these increased yield in saline soil in
farmers’ fields by 25%. This work has just been published in Nature Biotechnology.
* Mr John Passioura, Honorary Research Fellow CSIRO Plant Industry will be
accepting the award on behalf of Professor Rana Munns.
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CITATION AWARDEES
Research Field: Psychology
Professor Colin MacLeod
The University of Western Australia
School of Psychology
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley
WA 6009
Professor Colin MacLeod is Winthrop Professor of Psychology, Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow,
and Director of the Elizabeth Rutherford Memorial Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion
(CARE), at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Colin completed training both as a cognitive psychologist,
carrying out his research doctorate in this field at Oxford University, and as a clinician, undertaking clinical
psychology training at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. Across his subsequent career, he has
sought to harness these two distinctive facets of his discipline to shed light on the cognitive basis of emotional
vulnerability and pathology. His work has been guided by three complementary objectives: 1) to delineate the
patterns of selective information processing that characterise emotional vulnerability and dysfunction; 2) to
determine the causal nature of the association between each such processing bias and emotional disposition;
and 3) to design and evaluate methods of attenuating emotional vulnerability by directly altering the cognitive
biases that operate to functionally sustain it. He has played a major role in the development of influential
new intervention approaches that contribute to the treatment of emotional dysfunction, and related clinical
conditions, through the use of computer-based cognitive bias modification procedures.
Colin joined the Australian tertiary sector in 1987, and commenced his position at The University of Western
Australia in 1989. Since then, his research has been continuously funded by the Australian Research Council,
and by a range of international granting agencies. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in
Australia in 2002. Colin has held recent editorial positions with the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Cognitive
Therapy and Research, the Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, and Emotion, and has
carried out a wide variety of responsibilities within the Australian University context. He has served as Head
of Psychology, Associate Dean of Research, Chair of Academic Board, acting Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research &
Innovation), national auditor for Australian University Quality Agency, and international auditor for overseas
university quality agencies, including South Africa’s Council of Higher Education, and Saudi Arabia’s National
Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment.
Research Field: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Dr Evie Leslie
Flinders University
School of Medicine
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide
SA 5001
Dr Evie Leslie is a senior researcher and behavioural scientist who took up her current role in the School
of Medicine at Flinders University in early 2012. Previously she was a Principal Research Fellow at Deakin
University, and has held appointments at the University of Wollongong and the University of Queensland.
Her research has a population health focus, with particular interests in healthy lifestyles (physical activity and
nutrition behaviours), community health promotion and the role of community design and green spaces in
maintaining health and well-being. Currently Evie is the coordinator for the evaluation of a large communitybased
obesity prevention program called OPAL (Obesity Prevention and Lifestyle) which will be operating in
20 communities in South Australia by the end of 2012.
Evie has completed an advanced training course on physical activity and public health at the US Centres
for Disease Control and conducted her own program of research through an NHMRC Public Health Training
Fellowship, examining the impacts of social and physical environments on physical activity behaviours.
Her work includes innovative approaches linking behavioural and spatial epidemiology methods and she
has published extensively on the ‘walkability’ of communities. Over her career she has worked with various
government departments on research-related projects and has contributed to several evidence-based policy
documents. She collaborates with researchers from a variety of disciplines including epidemiology, public
health, urban planning, social geography, health psychology, exercise science, nutrition, medicine and
behavioural epidemiology.
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INNOVATION AWARDEES
Innovation Category: Corporate – Bio/Med (Large)
ResMed Ltd
1 Elizabeth Macarthur Drive
Bella Vista
NSW 2153
ResMed (NYSE: RMD and ASX: RMD.AX) is a leading developer, manufacturer and
distributor of medical equipment for treating, diagnosing, and managing sleepdisordered
breathing and other respiratory disorders. The company is dedicated
to developing innovative products to improve the lives of those who suffer from
these conditions and to increasing awareness among patients and healthcare
professionals of the potentially serious health consequences of untreated sleepdisordered
breathing.
When ResMed was formed in 1989, its primary purpose was to commercialise
a device for treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a major subset of SDB.
Developed in 1981 by Professor Colin Sullivan and colleagues at the University
of Sydney, nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) provided the first
successful non-invasive treatment of OSA. Since 1989, ResMed has maintained
its focus on SDB, which is gaining greater public and physician awareness.
Operations have grown dramatically through the introduction of a number of
highly innovative product lines.
*Mr Mark Abourizk, Vice President of Intellectual Property & Legal Counsel at
ResMed Limited will be accepting the award on behalf of ResMed Limited.
Innovation Category: Corporate – Bio/Med (SME)
CathRx
5 Parkview Drive
Homebush Bay
NSW 2127
CathRx is focussed on developing, patenting and producing a full range of high
quality Electrophysiology (EP) Catheters, used in the diagnosis and treatment of
cardiac arrhythmias. CathRx’s goal is to provide high quality EP Catheters at costs
that will make EP procedures far more affordable. CathRx design a full range of
EP Catheters, featuring durable materials to ensure high performance during
use. CathRx also produce catheters that have a unique, patented design feature:
Modular Construction. This enables manufacturing and remanufacturing with
selected partners globally to drive huge hospital savings.
CathRx is the only Catheter technology company in the world that offers
Remanufacturable Catheters. This offers hospitals EP Catheters that have passed
the same quality control tests that all new Catheters must pass, but at significantly
reduced prices. CathRx has also designed and patented an Advanced AF Ablation
program, which uses irrigated, multi-electrode, linear lesion technology. This
technology has the potential to help patients worldwide with a safe and effective
AF Ablation system.
*Mr Roman Greifeneder, Director of Research & Development and Operations
at CathRx Ltd will be accepting the award on behalf of CathRx Ltd.
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INNOVATION AWARDEES
Innovation Category: Corporate – Tech (Large)
Rio Tinto Ltd
Head Office
120 Collins Street
Melbourne
VIC 3000
Rio Tinto is a leading international mining group, combining Rio Tinto plc, a London
listed public company headquartered in the UK, and Rio Tinto Limited, which is listed
on the Australian Stock Exchange, with executive offices in Melbourne. The two
companies are joined in a dual listed companies (DLC) structure as a single economic
entity, called the Rio Tinto Group.
To deliver superior returns to shareholders over time, Rio Tinto takes a long term
and responsible approach to the Group’s business. This means concentrating on
the development of first class orebodies into large, long life and efficient operations,
capable of sustaining competitive advantage through business cycles. Rio Tinto is
a world leader in finding, mining and processing the Earth’s mineral resources. Our
products help fulfil vital consumer needs and improve living standards. Rio Tinto
operate, and eventually close, our operations safely, responsibly and sustainably.
Rio Tinto’s interests are diverse both in geography and product. Rio Tinto work in
some of the world’s most difficult terrains and climates. Most of their assets are in
Australia and North America, but they also operate in Europe, South America, Asia
and Africa. Their businesses include open pit and underground mines, mills, refineries
and smelters as well as a number of research and service facilities.
Rio Tinto operates as a global organisation, sharing best practices across the Group.
Their values - accountability, respect, teamwork and integrity - are expressed through
their business principles, policies and standards. Rio Tinto set these out in our
worldwide code of business conduct, the way they work. Their values underpin the
way they manage the economic, social and environmental effects of their operations,
and how they govern their business.
* Mr John McGagh, Head of Innovation at Rio Tinto will be accepting the award on
behalf of Rio Tinto.
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INNOVATION AWARDEES
Innovation Category: Corporate – Tech (SME)
Demain International Pty Ltd
Level 1, 13 Corporate Drive
Heatherton
VIC 3202
Demain is the world’s largest independent developer specialising in power tools and uses its unique ICADS
(Innovation Creation and Development System) to deliver genuine improvement to the user in the areas of
safety, endurance, comfort, control, ergonomics and speed of a power tool.
Demain International P/L was founded in 2001 with the aim of designing and developing true power tool
innovation for the global market. Since 2001, Demain has developed a portfolio of innovation that includes
market leading technologies such as Power-Tite, Air Thru and Flashcell. Demain International’s highly
awarded innovations and technologies have been implemented in power tools in most of the major markets
of the world.
* Mr Ben Van der Linde, General Manager – Technology will be accepting the award on behalf of Demain
International Ltd.
Innovation Category: Government Funded
The Grains Research & Development Corporation
PO Box 5367
Kingston
ACT 2604
The Grains Research & Development Corporation is one of the world’s leading grains research organisations,
responsible for planning, investing and overseeing research and development (R&D), delivering improvements
in production, sustainability and profitability across the Australian grains industry. GRDC is a statutory
corporation, founded in 1990 under the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989
(PIERD Act), it is subject to accountability and reporting obligations set out in the Commonwealth Authorities
and Companies Act 1997 (CAC Act). The GRDC’s portfolio department is the Australian Government
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF).
The GRDC’s mission is to invest in R&D for the greatest benefit to its stakeholders - grain growers and the
Australian Government. This involves coordinating and funding the activities; monitoring, evaluating and
reporting on their impact; and facilitating the dissemination, adoption and commercialisation of their results.
The GRDC also contributes to the development of strategic national approaches to grains industry R&D, to
reduce fragmentation and duplication, and to help address industry-wide issues such as biosecurity and
climate change. The Corporation links innovative research with industry needs. The GRDC’s vision is for a
profitable, internationally competitive and ecologically sustainable grains industry.
Collaboration is at the heart of the GRDC’s approach to adding value to the Australian grains industry. The
majority of the GRDC’s investment in R&D is with partners that co-fund the work as well as conducting the
activities. This includes partnerships to provide a path to market for the results of R&D projects.
The GRDC’s research portfolio covers 25 leviable crops spanning temperate and tropical cereals, oilseeds and
pulses, worth over $7 billion a year in farm production, alone. Funding is provided through a levy on grain
growers. This is determined each year by the grains industry’s peak body. The Australian Government matches
this funding, up to an agreed ceiling.
* Mr Paul Meibusch, Manager Commercial Farm Technologies will be accepting the award on behalf of
GRDC.
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INNOVATION AWARDEES
Innovation Category: University
The University of New South Wales
Sydney
NSW 2052
The University of New South Wales is one of Australia’s leading research and
teaching universities. At UNSW, they take pride in the broad range and high
quality of our teaching programs. UNSW’s teaching gains strength and currency
from their research activities and international nature; they have a strong regional
and global engagement.
In developing new ideas and promoting lasting knowledge UNSW are creating an
academic environment where outstanding students and scholars from around the
world can be inspired to excel in their programs of study and research. Partnerships
with both local and global communities allow UNSW to share knowledge, debate
and research outcomes. UNSW’s public events include concert performances,
open days and public forums on issues such as the environment, healthcare and
global politics.
*Dr Jim Henderson, General Manager of Life Sciences NewSouth Innovations will
be accepting the award on behalf of the University of New South Wales.
Innovation Category: Collaboration
The University of Queensland
Brisbane
QLD 4072
The University of Queensland (UQ) is one of Australia’s premier learning and
research institutions. It is the oldest university in Queensland and has produced
almost 197,000 graduates since opening in 1911. Its graduates have become
leaders in all areas of society and industry.
UQ is one of the three Australian members of the global Universitas 21 alliance.
This group aims to enhance the quality of university outcomes through
international benchmarking and a joint venture e-learning project with The
Thomson Corporation.
UQ is a founding member of the national Group of Eight (Go8) a coalition of
leading Australian universities, intensive in research and comprehensive in
general and professional education. Collectively, Group of Eight members account
for 70 percent of all research income in Australia’s university system, enrol more
than half of all higher degree by research students, hold over 90 percent of US
patents for inventions and generate 80 percent of spin-off companies created by
Australian universities.
UQ is a pacesetter in discovery and translational research across a broad spectrum
of exciting disciplines, ranging from bioscience and nanotechnology to mining,
engineering, social science and humanities.
Its eight internationally significant research institutes are drawcards for an
ever-expanding community of scientists, researchers and commercialisation
experts. UQ is noted for supporting early- and mid-career researchers, as seen
in their commitment to research training; in 2010, UQ celebrated its 9000th PhD
graduation. UQ currently has 4039 Research Higher Degree students, including
3593 PhD students. In 2010, 534 Research Higher Degrees were awarded.
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INNOVATION AWARDEES
Innovation Category: Collaboration
Eden Innovation
Subsidiary of Eden Energy Ltd
Level 40, Exchange Plaza 2
The Esplanade
Perth
WA 6000
Eden Energy Ltd is a diversified clean energy company that listed on the Australian
Stock Exchange in May 2006. Eden has interests in hydrogen production, storage
and transport fuel systems, including the low emission Hythane hydrogenmethane
blend, coal seam and abandoned mine methane in the UK, conventional
gas in SA, low temperature pyrolysis research into hydrogen production and
geothermal energy production.
All these aspects of Eden’s business are part of an integrated strategy to become
a major global participant in the alternate energy market, particularly focussing
on the clean energy transport market, producing hydrogen without any carbon
emissions, transporting the hydrogen to markets and providing the engines to
power hydrogen-based transport and energy solutions.
*Professor Alan Lawson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) will be accepting
the award on behalf of the University of Queensland and Eden Innovation.
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