The University of Western Australia is home to 10 highly cited researchers - the 250 academics in the world whose studies are most cited in other research articles over a 20-year rolling period.
More information can be found at the Institute for Scientific Information.
- Professor Hans Lambers
- Head of School, School of Plant Biology
- Professor Lambers work on various aspects of plant ecophysiology: phosphorus nutrition of crop plants and Australian native species, plant water relations and salinity. He also maintains an interest in cyanide-resistant respiration.
A major focus is on root clusters of Proteaceae and Cyperaceae in Western Australia with a view to developing major applications and a more sustainable agricultural industry in Western Australia. Other research includes work on minesite rehabilitation, and an involvement in the Co-operative Research Centre for Plant-based Management of Dryland Salinity, where he leads a subprogram on ecosystem function in recharge environments.
- Adjunct Professor Patrick Holt
- Deputy Director, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
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Professor Patrick Holt is Deputy Director and Head of the Division of Cell Biology in the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, Australia, and has a long-standing interest in the regulation of immunological processes in the lungs.
His group's activities cover a broad spectrum, ranging from basic aspects of dendritic-cell biology to regulation of atopic sensitisation, and they encompass both experimental animal and human clinical models.
- Professor Richard Hobbs
- ARC Laureate Fellow, Plant Biology
- Professor Hobbs' research is focused on the crucial issues that affect the world's ecosystems.
- His work on the impacts of land-use and climate change, invasive species, changed nutrient regimes and other factors that lead to increasingly rapid and unpredictable change in the world's ecosystems, is essential to the analysis and management of ecosystems in a rapidly changing world.
- Professor Cheryl Praeger
- ARC Federation Fellow, Mathematics
- Professor Praeger is in the top one per cent of highly cited mathematicians in the world and is best known for her works in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs.
- She has been recognised for adapting a 19th century theory by a now celebrated rebel French teenager, Evariste Galois, for use in today's information technology.
- Professor John Pate
- Emeritus Professor, School of Plant Biology
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Emeritus Professor Pate has made notable contributions to an understanding of an extraordinarily wide range of plant groups and of their biology, physiology and structures. He was Head of the Department of Botany (now School of Plant Biology) at The University of Western Australia from 1973 to 1985.
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He and his students and associates have made great advances in knowledge of Australian Restionaceae.
- Winthrop Research Professor, Stephen Powles
- Director, WA Herbicide Resistance Initiative (WAHRI) and Winthrop Research Professor, School of Plant Biology
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Professor Powles is an international authority on all aspects of herbicide resistance, from a basic biochemical understanding of how plants evolve resistance, through to practical on-farm management. He is equally interested in the generation of new knowledge through to application in cropping systems.
Currently in Dijon, France, working on a major herbicide resistance review paper, Professor Powles returns to UWA in mid-September 2009.
- Professor Peter Quinn
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Professor Quinn’s research focuses on the formation and evolution of galaxies and on developing a virtual observatory using large digital, astronomical archives. His aim is to develop a useable theory of galaxy formation based on the insights gained from detailed supercomputer modelling and simulations, and on state-of-the-science observations.
- Dr Brian Skelton
- Researcher, (Crystallography), Chemistry
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During his career Dr Brian Skelton has published more than 1200 scientific papers. His major research focuses are in small molecule crystallography and X-ray diffraction.
Dr Skelton completed his Bachelor of Science and PhD at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. From 1974 until 1977 he held a postdoctoral position at UWA, followed by another postdoctoral position in 1981 at Sussex University in Brighton, England. In 1984, Dr Skelton returned to UWA as a researcher.
- Professor Allan White
- Senior Honorary Research Fellow, Chemistry
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Allan White, officially retired but still active, had the good fortune to be associated with the UWA Crystallography Centre during an era when the continued development of single crystal structure determination has paralleled and underpinned the development of much of the discipline of chemistry.
His activities therein and since, over more than 35 years, with solid support from associated colleagues and from the Australia Research Council, have entailed fruitful collaborations with many groups within UWA and Australia more widely as well as in pursuit of his own interests, particularly in the fields of coinage metal (copper, silver, gold) and rare earth chemistry.
- Professor Malcolm McCulloch
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Marine Geochemist (UWA from June 2009)
Professor McCulloch is working on applying isotopic and trace element geochemical methods to better understand the impacts of climatic and anthropogenic processes on the Earth’s environment. Much of his work involves research on the impacts of climate and environmental changes on living coral reefs.
