GOVERNANCE
Science & Technology Australia is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status.
We operate under the direction of our Board, which has 8-11 Directors at any given time. Six Directors are elected by our membership, as is our President-Elect, every second year. The remaining Board Members are our President and our CEO, as well as up to two Board-Appointed Directors.
Office Bearers are appointed by the Board and include Vice President, Governance Chair, Financial Audit & Risk (FAR) Committee Chair, Policy Committee Chair, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Committee Chair.
STA COMMITTEES AND WORKING GROUPS
- Dr Kathy Nicholson (Chair)
Australian Centre for Machine Learning - Professor Sharath Sriram
Science & Technology Australia President;
Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society - Kate McGeoch
ARC Centre for Excellence in Exciton Science - Associate Professor Vanessa Wong
Soil Science Australia - Dr Jiao Jiao Li
Early Career Researcher at University of Technology, Sydney - Dr Miloš Tanurdžić
Genetics Society of AustralAsia - Dr Melissa Humphries
Statistical Society of Australia - Professor Richard de Grijs
Astronomical Society of Australia - Associate Professor Dr Parwinder Kaur
Genetics Society of Australasia - Dr Kalinda Griffiths
Statistical Society of Australia - Special advisor: Professor Les Field
Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- Dr Jiao Jiao Li (Chair)
University of Technology, Sydney - Professor Sharath Sriram
Science & Technology Australia President; Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society - Dr Muneera Bano
Computing Research and Education Association of Australia - Dr Erin McGillick
Reproductive Health Australia - Associate Professor Sumeet Walia
Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society - Professor Corey Tutt
Deadly Science - Kate Callaghan
Astronomical Society of Australia - Dr Katrina Wruck
Women in STEMM Australia - Dr Morley Muse
Women in STEMM Australia
- Mr Mark Stickells (Chair)
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre - Jasmine Chambers
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society - Mark Bazzacco
Chief Operations, Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) - Dominic Canstrari-Soh
Senior Manager, Enterprise Risk, EY - Professor Sharath Sriram
Science & Technology Australia President, and Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society - Misha Schubert
Chief Executive Officer – Science & Technology Australia - Dr Sandra Gardam
Deputy Chief Executive Officer - Science & Technology Australia
PAST PRESIDENTS
Mark Hutchinson (2021–2023) Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale (CNBP) and Professor at Adelaide Medical School
Jeremy Brownlie (2019-2021) Deputy Head of School and Molecular Geneticist at Griffith University
Emma Johnston (2017 -2019), then Dean of Science and Professor of Marine Ecology and Ecotoxicology, University of New South Wales
Jim Piper (2015-2017), then Research Leader at the Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics and former Deputy Vice Chancellor, Macquarie University
Ross Smith (2013-2015), then Director of environmental consulting company Hydrobiology.
Michael Holland (2011-2013), then Deputy Head of the School of Veterinary Science at the University of Queensland.
Cathy Foley (2009-2011), then Deputy and Science Director, CSIRO Manufacturing. Later became Chief Scientist of Australia.
Ken Baldwin (2007-2009), then Deputy Director, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Professor, Australian National University.
Tom Spurling (2005 - 2007), former CEO of the CRC for Wood Innovations; Professor, Swinburne University of Technology and member of the CSIRO Board.
Snow Barlow (2003-2005), Professor of Horticulture and Viticulture, University of Melbourne.
Chris Fell (2001-2003), former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of New South Wales.
Peter Cullen (March-November 2001) then Director, CRC for Freshwater Ecology, Canberra; Wentworth Group of Scientists.
Sue Serjeantson (1999-March 2001), then Deputy Vice Chancellor - Australian National University.
Peter Cullen (1997-1999), then Director, CRC for Freshwater Ecology, Canberra.
Joe Baker (1995-1997), former ACT Commissioner for the Environment; Director of AIMS and Chief Scientist, Queensland.
Graham Johnston (1993-1995), then Professor of Pharmacology, University of Sydney.
Ditta Bartels (1991-93), then Counsellor for Science and Technology, Australian Embassy, Bonn.
Tony Wicken (1989-1991), then Professor of Microbiology, UNSW, formerly Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) UNSW.
Frank Larkins (1987-89), then Professor of Chemistry, University of Tasmania, and also a former Deputy Vice Chancellor (International) University of Melbourne.
Fred Smith (1985-87), then Professor of Physics, Monash University and a former Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) La Trobe University.
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