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CURRENT POSITION
UNSW Scientia Professor
ARC Federation Fellow
Director of CAMD
School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
EDUCATION
- 1983-87 Ph.D: Polymer chemistry
- 1979-83 B.Sc.(Hons) First Class: Applied Chemistry University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT, England
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 1993 Scientia Professor (since 2003) University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. School of Chemical Engineering & Industrial Chemistry
- 1992 Senior Research Scientist ICI Chemicals & Polymers. Acrylics R&T Group. Runcorn, UK
- 1992 Postdoctoral Fellow University of Waterloo, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Ontario, Canada
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (MEMBER OF)
- 1998 The Royal Society of Chemistry.(RSC)
- 1988 IUPAC Working Party on free-radical polymerisation.
- 1993 American Chemical Society.(ACS)
- 1993 The Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)
- 1993 Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) NSW Polymer Branch [Committee Member]
- 1994 RACI National Polymer Division Standing Committee (PDSC)
- 1995 Advisory Editorial Board of Journal Of Macromolecular Science - Reviews
- 1996 International Advisory Editorial Board of Journal of Materials Chemistry
- 1997 Treasurer NSW RACI Industrial Chemistry Division
- 2001 Chair of the RACI Polymer Division
- 2002 Advisory Editorial Board of Macromolecules
- 2002 Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Chemistry
- 2003 Editorial Board - Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE & INTERESTS
- Polymers for Biotechnology applications
- Free radical polymerisation kinetics
- New synthetic routes to macromolecules
- Enzymatic synthesis
- Molecular modelling of polymerisation reactions
- Hydrogels, biomaterials & biocompatibility
- Membrane fabrication and degradation
- Molecular weight analysis (multi-detector GPC and MALDI-TOF-MS)
AWARDS
- 2000 ESSO Award for Innovation in Industrial Chemistry
- 2002-6 Australian Professorial Fellowship
- 2003-7 UNSW Scientia Professorship
- 2003 RACI Polymer Division Citation
- 2004 HG Smith Medal
- 2005 CRC Chairman's award
- 2005 ARC Federation Fellowship
CONTACT DETAILS
Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design
School of Chemical Sciences & Engineering
The University of New South Wales
UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052
Australia
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