Dr Megan Clark
Dr Megan Clark was appointed to the Board of Rio Tinto and stepped down as Chief Executive of CSIRO 20 November 2014.
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Dr Mildred Barnard
Australian statistician
Dr Joanne Daly
CSIRO Chief of Entomology
Helen Alma Newton Turner
Internationally recognised for her work on sheep breeding.
Dr Joy Bear
Australian chemist and the first woman to be awarded the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Leighton Medal.
Dr Mary Ann Augustin
Prominent CSIRO scientist whose main area of research is in protein structure and immunoparasitology.
Dr June Olley
Internationally recognised seafood technologist and advocate for women’s education, who was among the first to devise a scientific methodology for predictive microbiology.
Dr Ruth Milne Hall
Australian microbiologist whose genetics research has provided insight into the transfer and evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
Dr Lee Berger
Australian biologist and veterinarian, who discovered during her PhD that the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis was responsible for the decline and extinction of hundreds of amphibian species.
Ruby Payne-Scott
Ruby Payne-Scott was an Australian pioneer in radio physics and radio astronomy, and is believed to have been the first female radio astronomer.