Biographical entry Bond, Alan Maxwell (1946 - )

Summary

Alan Maxwell Bond is R.L. Martin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Head of the Electrochemistry research group at Monash University in Victoria. His major research interest concerns the theory, instrumentation and application of modern electrochemical methods in the area of inorganic and analytical chemistry. Prior to arriving at Monash, Bond was Foundation Professor of Chemistry at Deakin University in Geelong (1978-1990) and Professor of Chemistry at La Trobe University in Bundoora (1990-1995). He has received over twenty distinguished awards for his research, written around 600 research papers and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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1966

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1970 - 1973

Career position - Senior Demonstrator in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Melbourne

1971

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Melbourne

1973 - 1978

Career position - Research Fellow in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Melbourne

1975

Award - Rennie Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1976

Career position - Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in Evanston, USA (five months)

1977

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne

1978 - 1990

Career position - Foundation Professor of Chemistry at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria

1983

Career position - Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Southampton, UK (nine months)

1988

Career position - Visiting Professor in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford University, UK (nine months)

1989

Award - Australian Analytical Chemistry Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1989 - 1998

Career position - Associate Member of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Electroanalytical Commission

1990 - 1995

Career position - Professor of Chemistry at La Trobe University in Bundoora, Victoria

1992

Award - Liversidge Award received from the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

1992

Award - Stokes Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1993 - 1996

Career position - Member of the Council of the Australian Academy of Science

1995 -

Career position - Professor of Chemistry at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria

2000

Award - Faraday Medal received from the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

2000 - 2002

Career position - Head of the School of Chemistry at Monash University

2002 -

Career position - Foreign Member of the Academic Commission of the State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry in China

2003 - 2007

Career position - Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow

2004 -

Career position - R.L. Martin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Monash University

2004

Award - Reilly Award received from the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry

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Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Bond, A M', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-477833. Details