Qualifications & Positions held
PhD, Manc. 1966; FRACI Personal Chair in Chemistry, 1997 Administration Acting Head of School of Chemistry as required, Member of Academic Board and Science Faculty Board, Member of Chair Committees, Promotion Committees and School Renovations staff liasion.
Teaching Commitments
No teaching commitments 2007 onwards. Previously taught:
- inorganic, general and coordination chemistry
- bioinorganic chemistry
- physical inorganic chemistry
- solid-state inorganic materials
- nano- materials chemistry
Research Areas
Synthesis, structural, magnetochemical, ESR, and Mössbauer spectral studies of d-block compounds, metal protein models, molecular-based magnetic materials, framework materials (covalent bridges and supramolecular) and spin-crossover compounds.
Current research group (2007)
2 Postdoctoral fellows, 2 PhD students, 1 Endeavour Asia PhD student (from Thailand). Future PhD students will be jointly with Dr S. R. Batten.
Research Outcomes
341 refereed publications (Nov. 1, 2007), strong support from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grants, invitations to write reviews (e.g. Chem. Aust. 2007, 74 (Mar), 4; (Jan/Feb), 5; Adv. Inorg. Chem., 1995, 43, 261; Coord. Chem. Rev. 2003, 246, 103.) and special journal and book issues (e.g. Book chapter on Polynuclear Fe(II) complexes in Spin-crossover (with C. J. Kepert) in the series of Volumes in Topics Curr. Chem., edited by P. Gütlich, H.A. Goodwin, 2004, 233, 195, and for Peter Day 60th birthday, Joel Miller and Geoff Sykes special issues and Olivier Kahn memorial issue, 2001), deliver invited lectures to international meetings, Guest Professor and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry (2007-2011) in the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark 1994, 2000, 2007 (Villum Kann Rasmussen fellow); academic visitor to Danish (2000, 2007), Italian (1998), German (1994), UK (1991, 2005) and Indian (1988) universities. Numerous international and local collaborations on magnetochemical projects; referee for Am. Chem.Soc., Roy. Soc. Chem. UK, Chem. Eur. J., Inorg. Chim. Acta, Angew. Chemie, Aust. J. Chem. journals, Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RACI), UK and the American Chemical Society. Monash University Vice-Chancellor's Medal for Postgraduate supervision; Burrows Award for inorganic chemistry, RACI. |
