Professor Gordon G. Wallace

Position

Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong.
Executive Research Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science.

Biography

Professor Gordon Wallace’s research interests include organic conductors, nanomaterials
and electrochemical probe methods of analysis and the use of these in the development of intelligent polymer systems. A current focus involves the use of these tools and materials in developing biocommunications from the molecular to skeletal domains in order to improve human performance via medical Bionics.

Gordon is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), Institute of Physics, and Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI). He received the Inaugural Polymer Science and Technology Award from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in 1992; the RACI Stokes Medal for Research in Electrochemistry in 2004; and the HG Smith Memorial award from the RACI in 2008. He was awarded an ETS Walton Fellowship by the Science Foundation Ireland in 2003; named NSW Scientist of the Year (Chemistry) in 2008; appointed as a Professor in the World Class University by the South Korean Government in 2009; received the SPIE Smart Materials Research Lifetime Achievement Award in the USA in March 2009 and was honoured with the 2009 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award.

He has published more than 450 refereed publications and a monograph (3^rd Edition published in 2009) on Conductive Electroactive Polymers: Intelligent Polymer Systems and supervised more than 55 PhD students to completion.

Gordon completed his undergraduate (1979) and PhD (1983) degrees at Deakin University. And was awarded a DSc from Deakin University in 2000. He was appointed as a Professor at the University of Wollongong in 1990. In 2002 he was appointed to an ARC Professorial Fellowship.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons. 1st Class) Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, 1978
PhD Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, 1983
DSc Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, 2000

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science awarded in 2007
• Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council (ARC) awarded in 2006
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) in 2004
• Chairman of the Advisory Board of the International Conference on Synthetic Metals, held in Wollongong 2004
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, awarded 2003
• Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
• Chairman, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Electrochemistry Division, 1997 - 2000
• Chairman, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Wollongong Branch, 1987 - 1988
• Member, Irish Chemical Institute Council, 1984 - 1985
• Member, Chemical Industry - U.C.C., Liaison Committee, 1984 - 1985
• Chairman, Irish Chemical Institute Symposium, 1985.

email: gordon_wallace@uow.edu.au
phone: +61-2–4221 3127
fax: +61-2-4221 3114

Professor Gordon Wallace