Research excellence
Internationally renowned research by an award-winning team, creating real-world impact on a global level.
Our UWA researchers are globally recognised for excellence and academic insight into innovative ways to address world challenges.
Our research experts
Meet some of the remarkable people behind UWA's world-leading research.
Professor Jacqueline Batley
Professor Jacqueline Batley moved to Australia in 2002 as a senior research scientist at DPI-Victoria. In 2007 she led a research group at the University of Queensland as an ARC QEII Research Fellow before moving to the University of Western Australia in 2014 to undertake the ARC Future Fellowship. She currently leads a research group in crop genetics and genomics in the School of Biological Sciences, with a focus on disease resistance in Brassicas.
Her research interests include Crop Improvement, Evolution of Disease Resistant Genes and Genomics of Plant Pathogen Interactions.
Dr Hongqi Sun
Dr. Hongqi Sun is a Professor of Chemistry in the School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia. He is a current member of the ARC College of Experts and the Delegate to the Australia-USA Hydrogen Research Partnerships. He is an internationally renowned scientist in novel catalysis over nanostructured materials for solar-to-chemical/fuels (especially hydrogen) conversion and environmental remediation.
He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher (HiCi) by Clarivate Analytics since 2019, with over 300 journal papers and 31,900 citations (May 2023, Google Scholar).
Professor Jo McDonald
Professor Jo McDonald is the Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at UWA. She has held the Rio Tinto Chair in Rock Art Studies (2012-2023) funded by Rio Tinto’s Conservation Agreement with the Commonwealth for the Dampier Archipelago National Heritage Listed Place.
She is leading two current ARC linkage projects. The first is Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming: a multidisciplinary project aimed at direct dating the engravings and stone features, refining models of climate change and chronology through a series of different techniques. The other Project is Desert to the Sea: Managing Rock Art, Country and Culture - a multidisciplinary two-way knowledge project working with three Aboriginal communities with huge heritage estates and three industry partners, working on intergenerational information transfer and Western: Indigenous knowledge exchanges.
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