International Advisory Board
Dr Bridget Ogilvie (AC, DBE, FRS, FMedSci)
Bridget Ogilvie took her first degree in agricultural science (BRurSc) fromthe University of New England in Australia in 1960. She obtained her doctoral degrees from the University of Cambridge (PhD in 1963, ScD in 1981) for research in parasite immunology.
Her career has had three phases, initially as a scientist undertaking research on the staff of the Medical Research Council, then as a staff member of an organisation that funds medical research, The Wellcome Trust, now involved in science and education through a number of non-executive positions.
For 17 years she was a member of the staff of the UK Medical Research Council at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London. In those years, she undertook research on the immune response to parasitic infections. She travelled widely in both the developed world and the tropics in pursuit of her research interests and as an advisor for bodies such as the World Health Organisation. From 1985 to 1991, she was a Visiting Professor at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. She is now a Visiting Professor at University College, London.
She joined the staff of the Wellcome Trust in 1979 where her first post was a half-time appointment as coordinator of its tropical medicine programme, whilst still running her research group at the NIMR. In 1981 she joined the staff on a full-time basis as Deputy Secretary and Assistant Director. She was promoted to Deputy Director (Science) in 1984 and then to Director (Science Programmes) in 1989, with responsibility for the science funding activities of the Trust overall. At that time she also took a particular interest in schemes for the career development of scientists and medical graduates, and in the veterinary programme of the Trust. In October 1991, she was appointed Director (Chief Executive) of the Trust and retired from this position at the end of June, 1998.
She has received a number of honorary memberships, fellowships and doctorates from scientific societies and academic institutions in the UK and abroad. Following her retirement from the staff of The Wellcome Trust, she is currently occupying herself with a number of non executive posts in science and education. She is a Trustee of Cancer Research UK, until October 2007 Chairman of the Association of Medical Research Charities, and of the Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine, together with many other non executive interests.
Professor Andrew Holmes
School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne.
 Andrew Holmes obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the University of Melbourne where he worked with Professor L.M. Jackman. His PhD (1971) on heteroannulenes with Franz Sondheimer at University College London was supported by a Shell (Australia) Science Scholarship. The transition to natural products synthesis was made as a result of a postdoctoral spell at the E.T.H. working on the final stages of the synthesis of vitamin B12 with Professor A. Eschenmoser. He was appointed to an assistant lectureship at Cambridge in 1972. In 1977 he gained tenure and was appointed to a lectureship until he took the position of Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis in 1994. He was promoted to a personal Readership in 1995 and to a personal Professorship in 1998. In September 2004 he moved to become Professor of Organic and Polymer Chemistry at Imperial College and in October, 2004 was also appointed ARC Federation Fellow and inaugural VESKI Fellow at the Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne and at CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies.
Professor Holmes was the recipient of a Leverhulme Royal Society Senior Research Fellowship for 1993/4, the 1994 Alfred Bader Award, the 1995 Materials Science Award, the 2003 Tilden Medal and the 2004 Macro Group Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was a 1999 Novartis Fellow, the Dauben Lecturer at Berkeley in 2000 and the Aggarwal Lecturer at Cornell in 2002. His collaborations in a number of successful EU research networks led to the award of the Descartes Prize 2003. In May, 2000 he was elected FRS. He was Chairman of the Editorial Board of Chemical Communications from 2000-2003, has served as a Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research (1994-2000) and as a member of the Board of Editors of Organic Syntheses, Inc., (1997-2001), and is a member of the editorial advisory board of Chemical Communications, the Journal of Materials Chemistry and the Australian Journal of Chemistry.
Professor Ray Baughman
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Ray Baughman became the Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Director of the NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas in Dallas in August 2001, after 31 years in industry. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the World Innovation Foundation, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, an Honorary Professor of three universities in China, and on editorial and advisory boards of Science, Synthetic Metals, the International Journal ofNanoscience, and the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology . Ray has 57 US patents and over 230 publications. He has received the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists (1995), the Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering (1996), and the New Materials Innovation Prize of the Avantex International Forum for Innovative Textiles (2005).
Professor Siegmar Roth
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
 Siegmar Roth is leader of the Research Group on Synthetic Nanostructures at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. He obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Vienna, Austria for experimental work at the Forschungszentrum Seibersdorf (Moessbauer Effect) and his Habilitation at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Solitons in Conducting Polymers). After a few years with the Siemens Research Laboratories in Erlangen, Germany (Novel Semiconductors) he joined the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble, France (Neutron Scattering) and then the High Field Magnet Lab in the same town (High Temperature Superconductors), from where he moved to Stuttgart for his present position. He is engaged in many cooperative research projects on regional, national, European, and international levels, is author of more than 400 scientific publications and of the book "One-dimensional Metals" (Second Edition together with David Carroll in 2004). He is Senior Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Scientific Advisor of Shanghai Yangtze Nanomaterials Co., Ltd., Member of the Board of Danubia Nanotech s.r.l in Bratislava, Slovakia, and has created his own private research Laboratory Sineurop Nanotech GmbH Stuttgart, Germany.
Professor Richard B. Kaner
Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
 He received a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania with Professor Alan MacDiarmid in 1984 followed by two and a half years of postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley. He joined UCLA in 1987 as an assistant professor, earned tenure in 1991 and became a full professor in 1993. He has received awards from the Dreyfus, Guggenheim, Packard and Sloan Foundations as well as the American Chemical Society for his work on new routes to refractory materials including high-temperature ceramics, intercalation compounds, fulleride superconductors, superhard materials and conducting polymers. His conjugated polymer research focuses on nanofibres of polyaniline and their use in sensors, actuators, molecular memory and flash welding. In 2005 he worked with Prof. Gordon Wallace at the University of Wollongong on a Fulbright sabbatical fellowship. To date he has published over 150 peer reviewed articles, 8 patents (with 7 more pending) and raised over $6 million in grant funds.
Dr Albert Wai-Hing Mau
Division of Molecular Science, CSIRO.
 Dr Albert Mau graduated from Pui-Ching Middle School in Hong Kong. He pursued further education in the USA, where he obtained a BSc degree from Baylor University, Texas, and subsequently, a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1970.
Dr Mau came to Australia and took up a Research Fellowship at the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University in 1971. In 1976 he joined the CSIRO Division of Applied Organic Chemistry, which later became the Division of Chemicals and Polymers, and was renamed Molecular Science in 1997. He was the Program Manager and Acting Chief of molecular science division until 2000. His current position is in CSIRO MHT as CSIRO Fellow and Chief Laboratory Scientist. Dr Mau has been awarded The Centenary Medal to commemorate the founding of the Federation of Australia and the Inaugural Medal to commemorate contribution of science and technology to Australia and China in 1997.
His major research interests lie in photochemistry, photophysics, electrochemistry and surface chemistry. These disciplines allow him to work on the design of security devices, biocompatible materials and membrane reactors.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and a Member of the Optical Society of America and the American Photobiological Society. He is currently on the executive committee of the European Photochemistry Association and he serves as a member on the editorial board of Chemistry in Australia. He is an adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland, visiting professor at the University of Wollongong and honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science and Technology of China, University of Inner Mongolia and Wenzhou University. He serves on the board of directors of ETTC, Hong Kong and China, Electrovac International Group; Key Centre for Polymer Colloids, Sydney; IPPL, University of Wollongong.
Dr Greg Smith
Co-Managing Director, SciVentures Investments Pty. Ltd.
 Greg co-founded the venture capital company, SciVentures Investments Pty. Ltd., which manages the SciVentures Pre-Seed Fund that is licensed under the Federal Government’s “Backing Australia’s Ability” program.
He returned to Australia in 1999, after 20 years in USA and Europe working on the identification and development of high technology business opportunities from research outcomes. He was Director of the Alcoa corporate technical center and Vice-President of Allied Signal’s corporate research laboratories. Earlier, he had worked for Exxon Chemical Company with assignments in Australia, Belgium and USA.
In 2000, Greg was awarded the Washington-based Industrial Research Institutes’ prestigious Maurice Holland award for his work at AlliedSignal and Alcoa on “front-end innovation”. He has been a member of the Federal Government’s IR&D Board and of its Advisory Council for Intellectual Property. He chairs several of SciVentures start-up companies’ boards, as well as the board of the NANO MNRF. Dr. Smith also serves on certain university-based advisory boards, including the ACES IAB .
Dr Abid Khan
Abid Khan is Director of the Monash Institute for Nanosciences at Monash University in Melbourne Australia.
The institute is multidisciplinary and focuses on delivering materials and devices to the biomedical, environmental and food industries. It is underpinned by strengths in advanced materials covering both the hard and soft matter sciences.
Prior to this, Abid was Deputy Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology, one of the UK’s key centres for nanotechnology in healthcare, the environment and IT. In this role, Abid was in charge of major strategic and commercial initiatives, including the creation of London’s Bio-Nanotechnology Centre for which he was also CEO. Previously, he worked in commercial strategy and operations management with Booz Allen & Hamilton, specialising in major strategic, organisational and operational change projects for the Fortune 500 in the pharma, biotech and high-tech industries.
He was formerly a research manager for the European Union and a researcher at Oxford University in the area of optoelectronics for the communications industry. He holds an engineering PhD from University College London in the area of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and the integration of optoelectronic devices and has a degree in pure physics from Imperial College London.
Dr Ian Sare
Platform and Human Systems, DSTO.
 Dr Ian Sare trained as a metallurgist, gaining a BSc from the University of NSW and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK). He joined the CSIRO Division of Tribophysics in Melbourne in 1975 where he initiated research into the wear properties of cast ferrous alloys used in mining and minerals processing applications.
In 1984 he became Officer-in-Charge of the Adelaide Laboratory of CSIRO’s Division of Manufacturing Technology and then, in 1995, Chief of Division. Upon merging that Division with the Division of Materials Science and Technology in 1997, he became the first Chief of CSIRO Manufacturing Science and Technology. He sat on the Boards of three CRCs, X-Ray Technology (XRT) Ltd and the Strategic Industry Research Foundation (SIRF) Ltd. In 2002 Dr Sare was appointed to a newly-created position within CSIRO as Sector Leader - Manufacturing.
Dr Ian Sare joined DSTO (Defence Science and Technology Organisation) in 2004 as Director of the Platforms Sciences Laboratory and Corporate Leader – Air. He is now Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Platform and Human Systems), with responsibility for guiding the development of technologies underpinning military platforms, as well as those supporting defence in the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear environment.
Dr Sare is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He was awarded a Centenary Medal for service to Australian Society in Metallurgical Science and Engineering.
He is currently Executive Chair of the Aerospace Systems Group of The Technical Cooperation Program and a member of the Automotive Committee of the Industry Research and Development Board.
Professor Mark Cook
Currently Professor and Director of Neurology at St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Professor Cook is a neurologist specialising in the treatment of epilepsy. 
After completing specialist training in Melbourne, he undertook an MD thesis at Queen Square, London. He returned to St.Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne to continue his interest in epilepsy, and has formed a large research group with a broad range of interests across epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease.
Clinical and basic science research concerning Epilepsy and Neuromuscular disease is carried out in the department, and has recently extended to neurophysiological studies in kindling models of epilepsy. Research grants are held across all of these areas, including NHMRC and ARC funding currently.
Apart from his responsibilities within the hospital, Professor Cook is an editor of Epilepsia, sits on several advisory boards and is the chairman of Neurosciences Victoria Scientific Review Committee.
Professor Lee Astheimer
Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research, University of Wollongong.
Professor Astheimer graduated with a BSc Hon. from Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario CAN (1976) and a PhD in Ecology University California, Davis, USA (1984). She was awarded a National Institutes of Health –NIMH Postdoctoral Award (1988-1991) in comparative endocrinology and behaviour which she undertook at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
She has had academic positions at Rutger’s University, New Jersey, USA and the University of Tasmania, and has been at the University of Wollongong since 1994. Lee’s research interests are focussed on comparative endocrinology and behaviour related to nutrition, reproduction and stress in vertebrates including humans. She has maintained competitive funding for her research, most recently using physiological methods to evaluate health in populations of declining Australian birds.
Since 2006 she has been Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Wollongong, managing research policy and development, research students and the University’s submissions to the Research Quality Framework.
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