Australia's leading research university, celebrated for medicine and immunology at the Doherty Institute, computing and AI, the sciences, law, economics, and the arts.
24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Vice-Chancellor (appointed, commencing October 2026)
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
A Melbourne Law School dean turned Griffith Vice-Chancellor, she returns to her alma mater as its 22nd Vice-Chancellor, and we are grateful for the steady, scholar-led hand she brings back to Parkville.
Interim Vice-Chancellor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
A former long-serving Vice-Chancellor who answered the call to steady the University as interim leader after a period of loss, and we thank him for his generosity of service.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Chancellery Research and Enterprise
A distinguished geotechnical engineer who led the Faculty of Engineering and IT before shaping the University's whole research enterprise, and we are grateful for his builder's care in both roles.
Director, Peter Doherty Institute; Melbourne Laureate Professor of Medicine
Department of Infectious Diseases
As the inaugural Director of the Doherty Institute and a global leader in the search for an HIV cure, she has given the world hope that a lifelong infection can one day be beaten, and we thank her for it.
Professor of Immunology, Head of the Human T Cell Laboratory
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Trained by Nobel laureate Peter Doherty, her work decoding how our T cells fight influenza and SARS-CoV-2 helped the world understand its own immune response during the pandemic, and we are grateful.
Professor of Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
By discovering and mapping unconventional immune cells like NKT and MAIT cells, he has opened whole new avenues for immunotherapy, and we are grateful for his patient, foundational science.
Patron and Laureate Professor Emeritus
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
His Nobel-winning discovery of how killer T cells recognise virus-infected cells reshaped immunology, and the institute that bears his name carries forward a generosity of mentorship we deeply admire.
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor; Director, CLOUDS Laboratory
School of Computing and Information Systems
One of the most cited computer scientists in the world, his open tools and market-oriented ideas for cloud and edge computing echo the distributed-compute future we care about, and we thank him for building in the open.
Melbourne Laureate Professor of Natural Language Processing
School of Computing and Information Systems
A prolific and generous NLP scholar whose hundreds of papers helped teach machines to read human language, and we are grateful for the rigour and openness he brings to AI research.
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Software Engineering
School of Computing and Information Systems
Across more than three decades at Melbourne his work on databases, query optimisation and data mining shaped a generation of researchers, and we thank him for a career of quiet, durable contribution.
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Physics
School of Physics
An astrophysicist who has led a thriving research group since 1992 and championed women in physics, she reminds us that great science and great mentorship belong together, and we are grateful.
Melbourne Laureate Professor of Chemistry; Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science
School of Chemistry
A pioneer of nanocrystal science whose honest reckoning with what nanotechnology can and cannot yet do makes him a model of scientific candour, and we thank him for it.
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
School of Mathematics and Statistics
For more than three decades his mathematics of lattice walks and phase transitions has advanced our understanding of how complexity emerges, and we are grateful for his service as scholar and former Dean of Science.
Laureate Professor, Ian Potter Chair of Zoology
School of BioSciences
A Fellow of the Royal Society whose lifelong study of marsupial reproduction has illuminated how all mammals develop, she is a treasure of Australian biology, and we are grateful for her curiosity.
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
A labour economist who studies work and unemployment to make public policy fairer and more evidence-based, honoured in the 2026 Australia Day list, and we thank him for economics in service of people.
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
A Fellow of the Econometric Society whose research on market power and macroeconomics is as clear as his generous teaching, and we are grateful for the care he gives his students.
Professor of Law
Melbourne Law School
A criminal-law and evidence scholar who explains the justice system to the public with rare clarity, and we thank him for making the law legible to ordinary people.
Laureate Professor Emeritus
Melbourne Law School
A globally respected authority on constitutions who founded the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, she has helped nations design fairer systems of government, and we are grateful for her wisdom.
Professor of Philosophy
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
Her philosophical work on trust, when it is warranted and how it holds people together, speaks directly to the consent-and-trust questions we care about most, and we are grateful for her thought.
Professor of Linguistics; Director, Research Unit for Indigenous Language
School of Languages and Linguistics
Through the community-led 50 Words Project and decades of grammars, she helps Indigenous communities record and keep their own languages, and we are grateful for work rooted in respect and consent.
Hansen Professor in History
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
A historian of the Soviet Union whose careful books on soldiers, defectors and survival bring humanity to a contested past, and we thank him for scholarship that insists on the truth of the record.
Redmond Barry Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Music
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
An acclaimed Australian composer who led the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music for a decade, he has given the country both a body of music and a generation of musicians, and we are grateful.
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Architecture; Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Melbourne School of Design
An architectural historian who leads the Melbourne School of Design and champions the stories buildings tell, and we are grateful for the way she connects history, place and people.
Dean, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
A former teacher, principal and director-general who now leads Australia's top education school, he has spent his life trying to make schooling better for every child, and we are grateful.
This directory is unbounded, in pursuit of every professor at every university, everywhere. Every person is real, public, and cited; anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed.
A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of University of Melbourne, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.