2018 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.
2018 John Curtin Distinguished Professors
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Professor Brian Evans Author of the internationally acclaimed textbook Seismic Acquisition in Exploration 4th print, Professor Evans has also won a number of national and international awards, including the 2016 National Instruments U.S. Engineering Impact Award in Energy, the 2013 Society of Petroleum Engineering International Faculty award for his work on quality of petroleum engineering PhD students and the prestigious 2006 International Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Professor Evans has published more than 150 international journal articles, authored 27 major reports (including two on Gorgon geosequestration Reviews for the Western Australian Government) and generated an external research income of $29 million over the last 30 years. He led the Curtin science and engineering teams of four CRCs associated with exploration and Carbon Geosequestration. Professor Evans played a key role in Curtin's involvement with the University of Aberdeen, through his work in developing the Global Subsea University Alliance which provided the initial concept of the now successful Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance. Professor Evans was responsible for developing the Curtin Continuing Professional Development program through his industry contacts with Woodside. His ongoing research interests include geomechanical fracturing of geological formations and high stress-fracture relationships with vasa vasorum of the aorta leading to heart attack.
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Professor Judith Finn In addition to her role at Curtin and Aus-ROC, Professor Finn also holds an Adjunct Research Professor position with St John (Ambulance) Western Australia and adjunct professor positions at Monash University and the University of Western Australia. Professor Finn has generated an external research income (including NHMRC and Heart Foundation) of more than $10 million over the past decade. Professor Finn is internationally recognised for her expertise in resuscitation science and prehospital emergency care, appointed an honorary member of the European Resuscitation Council and a Fellow of the American Heart Association. She Co-Chaired one of the five International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Taskforces, which coordinated the 2015 international review of scientific evidence underpinning resuscitation policy and practice, including the publication of evidence and treatment recommendations in both Circulation and Resuscitation journals.
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Professor Kliti Grice She is a world-leading authority on molecular fossil and stable isotope geochemistry. She has an exceptional level of research output relative to the discipline standard of molecular and isotope geochemistry in deep geological time. She has more than 176 peer-reviewed publications that have been cited 5,716 times. Throughout her career Professor Grice has collaborated extensively with Australian and international partners. She has formed close and enduring ties with Geoscience Australia (GA) and eminent researchers from the MIT-US, University of Kiel, SCU, ANU, UWA, MU, CSIRO, ANSTO, GSWA to name a few, and industry (e.g. Chevron, Woodside, Petrobras, Inpex, Origin Energy, Sinopec). Her ability to attract and work with leading academics and researchers ultimately drives the success of the Centre that she leads. To this end the Centre brings together a team of outstanding researchers from the fields of organic geochemistry, inorganic geochemistry, paleontology, environmental science, sedimentary geology, analytical chemistry, micro biogeochemistry, field geology, palynology and geobiology. Her role combines scientific leadership with skills in driving a high-performing team culture, and effectively also managing research operations. Her capabilities in these three areas have been described in references from colleagues. Title awarded for a consecutive period: Professor Grice was originally awarded the John Curtin Distinguished Professor title in 2013 and was then nominated for a consecutive period in 2018. |
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Professor Keith Hill Professor Hill has extensive national and international research collaborations, including National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project and partnership grants, with collaborations in nearly all Australian states. He is also a lead investigator on research collaborations in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Canada. Throughout his research career Professor Hill has generated an external research income of more than $23 million. Several measurement tools developed in research led by Professor Hill have become well accepted tools in research and clinical practice in Australia and internationally. He also led the authorship team for the four editions of the Outcomes Manual for Adult Neurological Physiotherapy, which is utilised as a core textbook for most schools of physiotherapy in Australia and a number of international schools. The Australian Association of Gerontology recognised Professor Hill with Life Membership in 2017, awarded to those with a long and distinguished record of service and contribution to the Gerontology community. |
Professor Ottmar Lipp From 2007-2011 Professor Lipp held an ARC Professorial Fellowship and a University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowship from 2012-2014. In 2012, he led the successful bid for the ARC-SRI: A Science of Learning Research Centre ($16 million). He has authored over 170 papers in peer reviewed, international Journals, supervised over 30 PhD students to completion, and obtained more than $5.5 million in 30 competitive research grants, being first or sole Chief Investigator on 21. Professor Lipp is a member of the Australian Society for Experimental Psychology and a past president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (USA). He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Psychological Science (USA). Professor Lipp is currently Editor in Chief for Biological Psychology, Associate Editor for Cognition & Emotion, and Consulting Editor for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General an Psychophysiology.
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Professor Tony Lucey He is internationally recognised for his fundamental research in fluid-structure interaction and its applications in engineering and biomechanics. He is a former (2012-2014) member of the Australian Research Council College (chair of the PME panel in 2014), and currently secretary of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society and director of the newly-founded international Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control learned society. He also publishes in the areas of appropriate technology and engineering education. He has won a number of individual and team awards for education design and practice, and regularly chairs the accreditation of engineering programs in Australian universities. In 2007 he was listed by Engineers Australia as one of 'Australia's top 100 most influential Engineers'. He was the 2010 President of the Western Australia (WA) Division, and in 2013 awarded the WA Division medal for service and leadership in the professional body of Engineers Australia. Title awarded for a consecutive period: Professor Lucey was originally awarded the John Curtin Distinguished Professor title in 2013 and was then nominated for a consecutive period in 2018. |
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Professor Peter O'Sullivan Professor O'Sullivan and his team have an international reputation for clinical research investigating the development, classification and targeted management of persistent musculoskeletal pain disorders. He has developed a new management approach for disabling low back pain - called 'cognitive functional therapy' and has published more than 120 papers with his team in international peer review journals. He has been an invited speaker at more than 60 national and international conferences, and has run clinical workshops in more than 22 countries. Professor O'Sullivan's expertise is linking research to the clinical setting.
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Professor Vishnu Pareek Professor Pareek is a globally renowned researcher in the area of multiphase flow and fluid dynamics. He is considered among the pioneers for his work on photocatalytic reactor modelling and design. He has also conducted cutting-edge research in the area of fluid-particle modelling. Elsevier recognised one of his papers (Chemical Engineering Science, 66(14):3291-3300. 2011) among those that address the cutting edge of research questions in the field of fluid-particle modelling. Professor Pareek's research on 3D-printed process equipment is also at the forefront of this research field. In addition to publishing in scholarly journals, he has also presented his research at a number of international conferences. Professor Pareek is a member of the Australian Research Council's 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia Evaluation Committee and collaboratively, he has brought over $20 million in research income to Curtin. He serves on several organising committees for international conferences including Chair of the Technical Committee for Chemeca 2014. |
Professor Andris Stelbovics His own research interests are mainly in describing few-body scattering processes and providing computationally complete solutions of the Schrodinger equation. In recent years, he has focussed on atomic scattering of atoms by electrons/positrons at energies where ionization is important. In 1996, he was awarded the BOAS medal for Physics. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. He has over 170 publications listed in the Thompson ISI citations index. From 1995-97 he served on the Australian Research Council (ARC) panel for Physics and Mathematics and continues to act as an expert reader for the ARC. |
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Title awarded for a consecutive period: Professor Wu was originally awarded the John Curtin Distinguished Professor title in 2013 and was then nominated for a consecutive period in 2018. |
