Current Council

Position		Name	Contact details
Executive Committee	President	Dr. Prabhakar Ranganathan	Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Vice President	Dr. Heather Shewan	Senior Research Fellow, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, QLD 4072 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Past President	A/Prof. Ahmad Jabbarzadeh	Associate Professor, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Secretary	Dr. Elnaz (Ellie) Hajizadeh	Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Treasurer	Dr. Nick Robe	Post doc, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Webmaster (Website & Communications)	Mr. Fankai (Darren) Peng	Ph.D. Candidate School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Council Members		A/Prof. Anthony Stickland	Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
		Prof. Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan	Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
		Prof. Nicky Eshtiaghi	Professor, Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, VIC 3000 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
		Dr. Yuan Xu	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, QLD 4072 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
		Dr. Ashish Kumar	Product and Sales Manager (Characterisation), Anton Paar Australia Pty Ltd This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
		Dr. Nilanka Ekanayake	Senior Advisor, Nuton \| A Rio Tinto Venture This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Committees:

- Executive Committee: Chaired by the Secretary, comprising the President, Vice President, Past President, Treasurer, and Webmaster.
- Treasury/Memberships: Chaired by the Treasurer.
- Website & Communications: Chaired by the Webmaster and includes the KARJ Joint Editor.
- Events: Chaired by Heather Shewan.
- Industrial Engagement: Chaired by Prof. Nicky Eshtiaghi.
- Awards: Chair TBD.
- Cognate Societies: Chaired by Prof. Ahmad Jabbarzadeh.

Additional appointments

Delegate to the ICR: Prof. Ravi Jagadeeshan, Monash University

Joint Editor of the Korea-Australia Rheology Journal: Prof. Peter Daivis, RMIT University

Honorary Auditor: Dr. Rahul Gupta, RMIT University

Council history

Australian Society of Rheology

Year	President	Vice President	Treasurer	Secretary	Webmaster	Other Council members
2023-2024	Ahmad Jabbarzadeh	Daniel Lester	Prabhakar Ranganathan	Elnaz (Ellie) Hajizadeh	Fankai (Darren) Peng	Anthony Stickland, Nicky Eshtiaghi, Heather Shewan, Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan, Yuan Xu, Ashish Kumar, Marzieh Monfared
2021-2022	Nicky Eshtiaghi	Ahmad Jabbarzadeh	Prabhakar Ranganathan	Elnaz Hajizadeh	Veena Bobade
2020-2021	Nicky Eshtiaghi	Ahmad Jabbarzadeh	Prabhakar Ranganathan	Heather Shewan	Veena Bobade
2019-2020	Anthony Stickland	Nicky Eshtiaghi	Prabhakar Ranganathan	Heather Shewan	Vishak Perumal
2018-2019	Anthony Stickland	Nicky Eshtiaghi	Russell Varley	Prabhakar Ranganathan	Vishak Perumal
2017–2018	Peter Daivis	Jason Stokes	Russell Varley	Prabhakar Ranganathan	Vishak Perumal	Paul Slatter, Anthony Stickland, Ahmad Jabbarzadeh, Ivan Ivanov, Ravi Jagadeeshan, Vishak Perumal, Heather Shewan
2016–2017	Peter Daivis	Jason Stokes	Russell Varley	David I. Verrelli	Adam Crust	Paul Slatter, Anthony Stickland, Ahmad Jabbarzadeh, Ivan Ivanov, Ravi Jagadeeshan, Vishak Perumal, Heather Shewan
2015–2016	Rahul Gupta	Jason Stokes	Russell Varley	David I. Verrelli	Adam Crust	Mark Coghill, Paul Slatter, Nicky Eshtiaghi, Anthony Stickland, Ashish Kumar, Ahmad Jabbarzaden, Ivan Ivanov, Ravi Jagadeeshan
2014–2015	Rahul Gupta	Jason Stokes	Russell Varley	David I. Verrelli	Adam Crust	Mark Coghill, Prabhakar Ranganathan, Paul Slatter, Nicky Eshtiaghi, Anthony Stickland, Alex Lubansky, Flora Markis
2013–2014	Mark Coghill	Rahul Gupta	Russell Varley	Anthony D. Stickland	David I. Verrelli	Paul Slatter, Prabhakar Ranganathan, Peter J. Scales, Billy Todd, Alex Lubansky, Nicky Eshtiaghi, Jason Stokes
2012–2013	Mark Coghill	Rahul Gupta	Russell Varley	Anthony D. Stickland	David I. Verrelli	Paul Slatter, Billy Todd, Peter Scales, Prabhakar Ranganathan, Nicky Eshtiaghi, Sumanta Raha, Alex Lubansky
2011–2012	Paul Slatter	Mark Coghill	Russell Varley	Rahul Gupta	David I. Verrelli	Ravi Jagadeeshan, Billy Todd, Prabhakar Ranganathan, Masud Khan, Timothy Nicholson, Pat Griffin, Anthony D. Stickland
2010–2011	Paul Slatter	Mark Coghill	Russell Varley	Rahul Gupta	Sarah Clark	Billy Todd, Masud Khan, Timothy Nicholson, Peter J. Scales, Pat Griffin, Anthony D. Stickland, Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan
2009–2010	Billy Todd	Mark Coghill	Sumanta Raha	Rahul Gupta	[Sumanta Raha?]	Ravi Jagadeeshan, Peter Scales, Paul Slatter, Masud Khan, Timothy Nicholson, Russell Varley, Sarah Clark, Howard See
2008–2009	Billy Todd	Mark Coghill	Sumanta Raha	Rahul Gupta	Sumanta Raha	Ravi Jagadeeshan, Peter Scales, Shane Usher, Leslie Yeo, Peter Halley, Yung Ngothai, Russell Varley, Howard See, Chris Bloore
2007–2008	Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan	Mark Coghill	Sumanta Raha	Rahul Gupta	Sumanta Raha	Peter Scales, Chris Bloore, Peter Halley, Ivan Ivanov, Masud Khan, Khokan Majumder, Yung Ngothai, Vanja Pasanovic-Zujo, Tri Pham, Howard See, Billy Todd, Shane Usher
2006–2007	Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan	Pat Griffin	Peter Daivis	Rahul Gupta	Sumanta Raha	Peter J. Scales, Ivan Ivanov, Justin Cooper-White, Tri Pham, Masud Khan, Khokan Majumder, Billy Todd, Shane Usher, Richard Watson, Chris Bloore
2005–2006	Peter J. Scales	Pat Griffin	Peter Daivis	Rahul Gupta	Sumanta Raha	Mohit Bajaj, Ivan Ivanov, Justin Cooper-White, Masud Khan, Billy Todd, Shane Usher, Richard Watson, Ravi Jagadeeshan, Jonathan Foong, Roya Khalil
2004–2005	Peter J. Scales	Pat Griffin	Peter Daivis	Rahul Gupta	-	Justin Cooper-White, Ivan Ivanov, Billy Todd, Shane Usher, Ravi Jagadeeshan, Masud Khan, Andrew Chryss, Sumanta Raha, Alex Lubansky, Jonathan Foong
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1984–1985	Paul Grossman	-	-	-	-	-

Newsletter Editors

The “Australian Society of Rheology Newsletter” was produced from circa 1983 until 1992 under the editorship of Fred Koshir and others.
From July 1998 to July 2002 Peter Uhlherr (and later Alfred Uhlherr) and Paul Grossman also produced a Newsletter.
The Newsletter was briefly resurrected — in electronic form — in 2005–2006 (two issues), under the editorship of Ivan Ivanov.

Australian branch of the British Society of Rheology

Many dedicated individuals served on the council of the Australian branch of the British Society of Rheology (the predecessor of the ASR), but unfortunately the details have been lost over time.

Some of those involved apparently included David V. Boger, Sati Bhattacharya, Paul Grossman, Andrew Halmos, Sati Bhattacharya, John Watkins, Peter H. T. Uhlherr, Kevin Hall, and Carlos Tiu.

Apologies to those whose names have been omitted. (Please contact the Webmaster to advise of amendments.)

ASR Council Members