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2016 Honorary Award Recipients

The Title 'John Curtin Distinguished Professor' is awarded for 5 years, or until the retirement or resignation of the Professor from the University, whichever comes first. The title may be awarded for consecutive periods.

View the research of the 2016 John Curtin Distinguished Professors here.

2016 John Curtin Distinguished Professors

 Professor Adrian Baddeley
Professor Adrian Baddeley
BA(Hons)(ANU) PhD(Cantab) HonDSc(Aalborg) FAA
Professor Adrian Baddeley is one of Australia’s leading researchers in statistical science. He develops statistical methodology for analysing spatial data and image data, and implements the methods in opensource software. His current work focuses on methods for geological prospectivity analysis (predicting the abundance of mineral deposits) and road traffic accident research.

 Professor Anna Haebich
Professor Anna Haebich
BA(Curtin) BA(Hons)(UWA) PhD(Murdoch) FAHA FASSA
Professor Anna Haebich is a multi-award winning scholar of international repute, known for her leadership in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research. Her career combines university teaching, research, centre directorship, curatorship, visual arts practice, creative writing and work with Aboriginal communities.
Title awarded for a consecutive period: Professor Haebich was originally awarded the John Curtin Distinguished Professor title in 2011 and was then nominated for a consecutive period in 2016.
Professor San Ping Jiang
Professor San Ping Jiang
BEng(SCUT) PhD(City)
Professor San Ping Jiang is a professor at Curtin’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Deputy Director of the Fuels and Energy Technology Institute. He is an adjunct Professor of the Sunshine Coast University and holds Guest Professorships in number of Chinese universities.
Professor Pete Kinny
Professor Pete Kinny
BSc(Hons)(Sydney) PhD(ANU)
Professor Pete Kinny is an influential geochemist and geochronologist in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He has the highest citation rate among Curtin’s geoscience researchers.  His work includes studies of the Earth’s earliest crust, diamond formation in the Earth’s mantle, timing of supercontinent formation and break-up, and the tectonic architecture of gneiss terranes in Australia, Antarctica, Scotland and Greenland.
Professor Nikos Ntoumanis
Professor Nikos Ntoumanis
PhD(Exeter) MSc(Loughborough) CPsychol FAcSS FBPsS
Professor Nikos Ntoumanis is currently leading an international research project funded by the  International Olympic Committee into doping in sport. His research has been published in numerous journals including Perspectives on Psychological Science, Developmental Psychology and Journal of Educational Psychology.
Professor Suvendrini Perera
Professor Suvendrini Perera
BA(Hons)(Sri Lanka) PhD(Columbia)
Professor Suvendrini Perera is Deputy Director of the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute and Research Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin. She has published widely on issues of social justice, including decolonisation, race, ethnicity and multiculturalism, refugee topics, critical whiteness studies and Asian-Australian studies.
Professor Andrew Putnis
Professor Andrew Putnis
BSc(Newcastle) BSc(Hons)(London) PhD(Cambridge)
Director of Curtin’s Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR) Professor Andrew Putnis’ research concerns the mechanisms of fluid-mineral interaction and its relationship to the strength and deformation of crustal rocks. The direct applications of this research are wide-ranging, including understanding element mobility and ore deposition in the Earth’s crust, strategies to clean-up environmental waste, understanding the durability of nuclear waste glass, and the prevention of mineral scaling in industrial processes.
Professor Moses Tade
Professor Moses Tade
BSc(Hons)(Ife) MSc PhD(Queens) FIChemE CEng HonFIEAust CPEng
Curtin’s Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of Science and Engineering, Professor Moses Tade is well respected nationally and worldwide for his research in chemical engineering and specifically in process systems engineering. He has significantly contributed to bridging the gap between theoretical work and industrial practice of process systems engineering.
Title awarded for a consecutive period: Professor Tade was originally awarded the John Curtin Distinguished Professor title in 2011 and was then nominated for a consecutive period in 2016.