Biographical entry Farquhar, Graham Douglas (1947 - )

Summary

Graham Farquhar is Distinguished Professor and Leader of the Environmental Biology Group at the Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, in Canberra. He has published over 200 hundred scientific publications in the field, presented a multitude of invited lectures and talks and has been involved in over fifty scientific committees, societies and groups. Because of his phenomenal output and contribution to science, Farquhar has also received many, many honours and awards including fellowship to the Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Science, the P.L. Goldacre Award from the Australian Society of Plant Physiologists and the Leading Australian Citation Laureate for 2001.

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1968

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the Australian National University in Canberra

1969

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) Queensland Honours in Biophysics

1973

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

1973 - 1975

Career position - Research Associate at the Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University in the USA

1975 - 1976

Career position - Research Specialist at the Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory

1976 - 1980

Career position - Research Fellow, then Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University

1980

Award - P.L. Goldacre Award received from the Australian Society of Plant Physiologists

1980 - 1988

Career position - Fellow then Senior Fellow at the Australian National University

1982

Career position - Fullbright Senior Scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA

1983

Award - Gottschalk Medal received from the Australian Academy of Science

1986 - 1993

Career position - Member of the International Photosynthesis Committee

1988 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1988 - 1989

Career position - Leader of the Plant Environmental Biology Group at the Research School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University

1988 - 2003

Career position - Professor of Environmental Biology at the Research School of Biological Sciences

1991

Award - Corresponding Member of the American Society of Plant Physiologists

1994 -

Career position - Leader of the Environmental Biology Group at the Research School of Biological Sciences

1994 - 1996

Career position - Chairman of the Australian Committee for International Geosphere Biosphere Programme

1994 - 1997

Career position - Chairman of the Global Change Confederation

1995 -

Award - Fellow of Royal Society (FRS)

1996 - 1997

Career position - Vice President of the Australian Academy of Science

1998 - 2001

Career position - Deputy Chief-Executive Officer and Program Leader of the CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) for Greenhouse Accounting

2003 -

Career position - Distinguished Professor of Environmental Biology at the Research School of Biological Sciences

2003 -

Career position - Board member of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies

2003

Award - Centenary Medal received from the Australian Government

2004 -

Career position - Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry

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• National Library of Australia, 'Farquhar, Graham D', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-844198. Details