Awards and Medals
- 2002 Rennie Memorial Medalist
- 2003 Edgeworth David Medalist
- 2005 HG Andrewartha Medalist
- 2006 Faculty of Science Award for Excellence in Research by Early Career Researchers (inaugural award)
- 2006 Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research by Early Career Researchers (inaugural award)
- 2006 Victorian Young Tall Poppy Science Award: The Tall Poppy Campaign
- 2007 Cosmos Magazine Bright Sparks Award
- 2008 Le Fèvre Memorial Prize
- 2008 Thomson Scientific Citation Award
Teaching Commitiments
As well as being Third Year Coordinator, I am involved with the following subjects
- ENG1071 Chemsitry for Engineering
- CHM2180/3180 Materials Chemistry: Biomaterials, Macromolecules and Smart Materials
- CHM3911 Spectroscopy, Synchrotron and Structure
- BMC3104 Drug Discovery and Development
- CHM3990 Chemical Project
- CHM4000 Metallosupramolecular Chemistry
- CHM4000 Instrumental Chemistry
Research Areas
Research Outcomes
- An international reputation in the area of crystal engineering, and world leading expertise on the phenomenon of interpenetration of networks in crystal structures.
- Batten group funding since 1998 is more than $1.2M, including three ARC Fellowships and three Discovery Grants; CI on grants of more that $3.5M.
- 142 refereed journal publications, 6 book chapters, 72 conference presentations.
- High citation rates. Total citations (to the end of 2007) are 6521, or over 45 citations per published paper. Twelve papers have over 100 citations each, and 22 have more than 50 citations. H-index = 38, m = 2.38.
- Publication 14 is one of the most heavily cited papers in its field (over 1900 citations). Publication 42 was the very first 'Highlight' paper written for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal CrystEngComm, and is the second most highly cited paper to have been published in this journal to date (238 citations). Publication 2 was highighted in an editorial article in Science, and chosen as one of the highlights of the year for chemistry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Book of the Year, 1996. Publications 31, 48, 52, 116 and 132 are highlighted on the covers of their respective journals.
- Referee for more than 500 papers submitted to 36 different journals since 2000 (including Chem. Comm., Dalton, New J. Chem., Chem. Soc. Rev., JACS, Inorg. Chem., Angew. Chem., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., Aust. J. Chem.), as well as ARC, NSERC (Canada), KOSK (Norway), NSF (USA) and PRF (USA) funding applications. Examiner for one M.Sc. and three Ph.D. theses.
- Extensive collaborations and requests for my expertise from 36 distinct research groups since 2000, based in Australia, China, India, Denmark, Japan and the United Kingdom. These include the groups of Prof. Keith Murray (Monash), Prof. Leone Spiccia (Monash), Prof. Bruce West (Monash), Prof. Doug MacFarlane (Monash), Prof. Glen Deacon (Monash), Dr. Alan Chaffee (Monash), Prof. Cameron Kepert (Sydney), Dr. Christine J. McKenzie and Prof. Hans Toftlund (Odense, Denmark), Prof. Michael D. Ward (Sheffield, UK), Prof. Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto, Japan), Prof. Samiran Mitra (Jadavpur, India), Dr. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee (Bangalore), Dr. Miao Du and Prof. Xiao-Jun Zhao (Tianjin Normal U, Tianjin, China), Prof. Xian-He Bu and Prof. Jimin Zheng (Nankai U, Tianjin, China), Prof. Song Gao and Dr. Zheming Wang (Beijing, China), Prof. Xian-Ming Zhang (Linfen, China), Prof. Yao-Yu Wang (Northwest U, Xi'an, China), Dr. Quan-Guo Zhai (Shaanxi Normal U, Xi'an, China), Dr. Shi-Yao Yang (Xiamen, China), Prof. En-Bo Wang and Prof. Jian-Fang Ma (Northeast Normal U, Changchun, China), Prof. Xiao-Ming Chen and Dr. Ming-Liang Tong (Sun Yat-Sen U, Guangzhou, China), Prof. Hong Deng (South China Normal U, Guangzhou, China), Dr. Yu-Bin Dong (Jinan, China), Prof. Rong Cao and Dr. Can-Zhong Lu (Fuzhou, China), Prof. Fupei Liang (Guangxi Normal U, Guilin, China), Prof. Ning-Hai Hu (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China), Dr. Xiang He (Shanghai U, China), Dr. Paul Kruger (U Canterbury, NZ), and Prof. Ed Constable (Basel, Switzerland). Previous collaborations with Prof. Richard Robson (Melbourne), Dr. John Jefferey (Bristol, UK), Prof. Jon A. McCleverty (Bristol), Dr. Ben J. Coe (Manchester), Prof. F. Gordon Stone (Waco, Texas), and Dr. Mohamedally Kurmoo (Strasbourg, France).
Current Batten Group Members
- Thomas Heinze (visiting Leipzig student), 2008
- Yuniar Ponco Prananto (MSc student), 2007-
- Martin Duriska (PhD student), 2005 -
Incorporation of Scorpionate Ligands into Coordination Polymers and Supramolecules (Hons 2003)
- Anthony Chesman (PhD student), with Prof. Glen Deacon, 2007-
Pseudohalide Complexes of Lanthanoid and Transition Metals (Hons 2006)
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Emily Mensforth
(PhD student), with Dr. Matthew Hill (CSIRO) and Prof. Robert Lamb (Australian Synchrotron), 2008-
- Caspar Schneider (PhD student), with Prof. Keith Murray, 2006-
- Tamsyn Ross (PhD student), with Prof. Keith Murray, 2007-
- Kittipong Chainok (visiting PhD student), with Prof. Keith Murray, 2006-
- Dr. David Turner (ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow), 2006-
- Dr. Jinzhen Lu (Postdoctoral Fellow), 2004-2006, 2007-
Past Batten Group Members
- Sze Nee Pek (vacation student), 2006/7
- Madleen Busse, 2006
New Trigonal Ligands for Crystal Engineering and Metallosupramolecular Chemistry (MSc PtI 2006)
- Dr. Anna Kutasi, with Prof. Keith Murray, 2001-2006
Synthesis, Structural and Magnetic Properties of Coordination Polymers using Dicyanamide and Nitrogen-Donor Heterocyclic Ligands (Hons 2001)
Synthesis, Structure and Magnetism of Metal Complexes Containing Organocyano Ligands (PhD 2006)
- Daniel Tonzing (PhD student), with Prof. Keith Murray, 2005-2006
- Dr. Paul Jensen (Postdoctoral Fellow), with Prof. Keith Murray, 2004-2006
- Nic Spiccia (3990 student), 2007
- Alexis Demetrious (Student Research Scheme), 2006
- Joshua Strauchn-Hatton (Student Research Scheme), 2007
Join us
Funding for PhD or Postdoctoral positions is available from the following sources:
Other Roles (Monash)
- Member of the Science Faculty Board
- Member of the Education Commitee, School of Chemistry
- Member of the Zone 13 OHSE Committee
- Radiation Safety Officer, School of Chemistry
- Manager, X-ray Diffraction Facilities, School of Chemistry
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