Professor Alan Bond

Summary

Currently Professor Bond is Professor of Chemistry at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Over the period 1978-1990, he was Foundation Professor of Chemistry at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia and for the period 1990-1995, Professor of Chemistry, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. He also held visiting Professorships at Northwestern University (1972, 1976), the University of Southampton (1983) and Oxford University (1988, 1991, 1998).

His Ph.D. (1971) and D.Sc. (1977) degrees he received from the University of Melbourne, where he also held teaching and research positions.

He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship (1972), the Rennie Medal (1975) of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the David Syme Prize (1977), the Analytical Chemistry Division Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1989), the Stokes Medal awarded by the Electrochemistry Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1992), the Liversidge Award (The Australian New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science), the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies Foundation Lectureship (1993), the Royal Society of Chemistry Electrochemistry Award (1997), the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Electrochemistry Group), and a range of other awards.

He is on the editorial board of fifteen journals, and is a member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Electrochemical Society and has been invited to present lectures at more than 50 international conferences.

In 1990, Professor Bond was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In the same year, Professor Bond was awarded a Fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to spend a period of time in Japan, and in 1991 he was the recipient of the Robert Boyle Royal Society of Chemistry 150th Anniversary Fellowship, which enabled him to spend the period March - December at Oxford University as the Robert Boyle Professor. In 1993, Professor Bond was awarded an Erskine Fellowship by the University of Canterbury, Christchurch New Zealand and was elected for three year terms to membership of both the Council of the Australian Academy of Science and the Chemistry Panel of the Australian Research Council. In 1995/96 Professor Bond was Vice President of the Australian Academy of Science. Recently, he has been given Special Investigator status by the Australian Research Council for the period 1997-1999 and has been awarded the Hinshelwood Lectureship by the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford for the 1997/98 academic year.