Category: Mark Hutchinson

March 8, 2024

Gig Guide: Ex-STA president lands at UniSA

Former Science and Technology Australia president Mark Hutchinson is the new interim director of the University of Adelaide Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS). Mr Hutchinson, who left the representative group in November 2023, replaces IPAS’ outgoing director Professor Andre Luiten, who will move into the newly created role chief innovator at the institute. He…

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February 7, 2024

National science council fills vacancies with three new members

Australian scientists specialising in nuclear physics, health and epidemiology have been appointed to the federal government’s science and technology advisory council, which went without a full compliment of members for all of last year. Professor Mahananda Dasgupta, Professor Reuben Bolt and Professor Mark Hutchinson were appointed to the powerful National Science and Technology Council on…

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November 28, 2023

RMIT commercial research leader Sharath Sriram takes reigns at STA

Influential industry group Science and Technology Australia will have completely new leadership next year, with Professor Sharath Sriram on Tuesday taking the reigns as president as the search for a chief executive gets underway. Professor Sriram, who works with the Functional Material and Microsystems team within RMIT’s School of Engineering, is regarded as a commercialisation…

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February 12, 2023

Science Future Fund could generate $2.3bn annually: STA

Science and Technology Australia are calling on the federal government to establish a $20 billion “locked box of capital” which the peak body estimates could contribute up to $2.3 billion for the economy each year. The Science Future Fund would target investment in discovery science research projects that require longer term support beyond short-term grant…

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January 27, 2023

Fortescue to make own electrolysers after joint venture collapses

Fortescue will manufacture electrolysers developed in-house at its $114 million production facility being developed in Gladstone following the collapse of its partnership with US-based supplier Plug Power. Although Plug Power Electrolysers will not be produced from the facility, they may still be supplied to other Fortescue projects, according to Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) chief executive…

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November 24, 2022

Commercial research leader Sharath Sriram is president-elect at STA

RMIT University researcher and commercialisation leader Professor Sharath Sriram has been elected as president-elect at Science and Technology Australia as part of a broader board-renewal at the peak representative body. Professor Sriram, who works with the Functional Material and Microsystems team within RMIT’s School of Engineering, has won acclaim for his track record as a…

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April 6, 2022

Aust Research Council gets new advisory committee, new translation focus

A new advisory committee for the Australian Research Council has been appointed to provide guidance on the troubled agency’s governance and strategy as the government seeks to align publicly funded research with national priorities and improve translation rates. The committee was appointed late last week by acting Education minister Stuart Robert, who set new expectations…

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March 2, 2022

‘Peer review over politics’: Unis and scientists want research veto power scrapped

Australia’s peak science and technology body has joined university groups and unions in calling for the removal of ministerial veto powers over research funding, warning it is out of step with global practice and opens the funding process up to politicisation. It follows backlash to acting Education minister Stuart Robert’s intervention late last year to…

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March 1, 2022

‘Bench to boardroom’ skills can bring 22-fold return on govt’s $1.6b research fund

A strategic approach to science skills is needed to create a “new era of economic opportunity” built on the federal government’s $2.2 billion research commercialisation plan, the president of Science and Technology Australia says. In an address to the National Press Club during ‘Science meets Parliament’ week on Wednesday, Professor Mark Hutchinson will say the…

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January 27, 2022

A research boost is critical to economy and well-being: STA

Australia’s peak science lobby has called on government to “double down” on its research and development investment to raise it to 3 per cent of GDP in order to “shield our economy from major threats” like climate change and antibiotic resistance. “Australia should use the next federal Budget to fund science like our lives and…

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November 25, 2021

Science entrepreneur Mark Hutchinson named STA president

The peak scientist group has appointed South Australian biomedicine researcher Professor Mark Hutchinson as its new president, replacing outgoing Professor Jeremy Brownlie. The new president is a science entrepreneur and has flagged R&D spend and creating more “bench to boardroom scientists” as his priorities. Professor Hutchinson is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence…

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