Emeritus Professor Perry Bartlett

Researchers in neuroscience and neurophysiology have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List.

Emeritus Professor Perry Bartlett, the inaugural Director of the Queensland Brain Institute and Foundation Chair in Molecular Neuroscience at The University of Queensland was awarded an AO in the General Division.

His award recognises distinguished service to neuroscience research and to people living with dementia, motor neurone disease and spinal cord injury.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a past President of the Australian Neuroscience Society (ANS).

Previous awards include the ANS Distinguished Achievement Award, the CSL Florey Medal and Prize, and Research Australia’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Professor Marcello Costa

Professor Marcello Costa, the Mathew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Neurophysiology at Flinders University, was also awarded an AO in the General Division.

Professor Costa was one of the founders of the discipline of neuroscience and the Australian Neuroscience Society (ANS) of which he was president in the 1990s.

He was also foundation co-chair of the South Australian Neuroscience Institute (SANI) from 2003 to 2010.

His research interests include enteric neuroscience and gastrointestinal motor functions.