Glen Deacon graduated, BSc(Hons) (HI) and PhD from the
University of Adelaide (CSIRO and AAEC Scholarships, an ICIANZ Fellowship, and the Senior Tutorship
at Lincoln College). Postdoctoral research work was carried out with Professor Sir Ronald Nyholm
FRS at University College London (CSIRO Overseas Scholarship, ICI Fellowship) with additional collaboration
with Professor Alwyn Davies FRS (UCL) and Dr John Green (NPL Teddington).
He was appointed to a lectureship at Monash in 1966, and received accelerated promotion to Senior
Lecturer (1971) and Reader (1975). For his research work on Main Group Element Chemistry he was
awarded the DSc degree of the University of Adelaide in 1972. He became a Fellow of
the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1975. In 1994 he was appointed to a Personal Chair
in Chemistry and is currently Professor of Chemistry.
Glen Deacon has achieved international recognition in several areas of Inorganic and Inorganic Materials
Chemistry, particularly the Chemistry of Main Group Elements, Rare Earths, Precious Metals (including
platinum anti-cancer compounds), and New Materials (semi-conductor dopants and precursors). He has
received extensive research funding both alone and in research teams, e.g. from ARC (more than 50
grants, totalling over $2,250,000), ACCV, and GIRD, and is involved in extensive National and International
(e.g. Germany, UK, Canada, PR China, Malaysia) research collaboration. He has supervised or jointly
supervised 24 postdoctoral workers, 16 research assistants, and 40 PhD, 4 MSc, 6 MEnvSci and 70 BSc(Hons)
(38 HI) graduates. Over 400 papers have been published in refereed
journals and several book chapters have been published. Considerable consulting/contract research has
been carried out for industry and government agencies, and a patent is in commercial use.
Glen Deacon held a Visiting Lectureship at the University of Western Australia (1991), Guest Professorships
at Universität Dortmund (1984, 1988, 1992), Technische Universität Berlin (1988, 1992), Universität
Hannover (1993, 1995), Universität Duisburg (1995) and Universität Köln (1997-99), and was a Senior
Academic Visitor, Queen Mary College, University of London (1992) and James Cook University (1997),
and Visiting Professor and Foundation Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Sydney (2000).
In 1987-2007, he has given over 150 invited lectures/seminars at National and International (UK,
USA, Germany, Netherlands, Eire) Conferences, Universities, Research Organisations etc. In 2006, he was awarded the Terrae Rarae Prize for Rare earth chemistry and in 2007 received the Burrows Award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute for Inorganic Chemistry. |
