Members of the Merit Allocation Committee
| Professor Brian Yates | School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania (Chair) |
| Dr Geoff Bicknell | Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, ANU |
| Assoc Professor Jim Denier | Department of Applied Mathematics, The University of Adelaide |
| Professor Julian Gale | Nanochemistry Research Institute, Curtin University of Techonology |
| Dr Tony Hirst | Marine and Atmospheric Research, CSIRO |
| Professor Alan Mark | Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Queensland |
| Professor Ross McPhedran | School of Physics, University of Sydney |
| Associate Professor Louis Moresi | Department of Computational Mathematics and Geophysics, Monash University |
| Dr Alfred Uhlerr | Information Management and Technology, CSIRO |