Person

Wallace, Gordon (1958 - )

AO FAA FRACI FTSE

Born
9 June 1958
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Occupation
Innovator and Medical scientist

Summary

Gordon Wallace is internationally recognised for his research in the field of electromaterials. He uses nanotechnology in innovative ways to produce new materials and develop intelligent polymer systems with application in medical bionics and energy conversion and storage. He is noted for his collaboration with Graeme Clark on the bionic ear project. Wallace has had a significant role in raising the international research profile of the University of Wollongong where he has been Professor since 1990. His appointments have included Executive Research Director at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science and Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute at the University of Wollongong.

Details

Chronology

1978
Education - BSc (hons), Deakin University
1983
Education - PhD, Deakin University
1983 - 1984
Career position - Lecturer, University College, Cork, Ireland
1984 - 1985
Career position - Member of Council, Irish Chemical Institute
1985 - 1990
Career position - Lecturer, University of Wollongong
1987 - 1988
Career position - Chairman, Wollongong Branch, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1990 -
Career position - Professor, University of Wollongong
1991
Award - Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, Australian Research Council
1992
Award - Inaugural David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology Achievement Award, Polymer Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1995 -
Award - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1996
Award - ARC Senior Fellowship
1997 - 2000
Career position - Chairman, Electrochemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1999 - 2019
Career position - Founder and Director, Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong
2000
Education - DSc, Deakin University
2001
Award - ARC Australian Professorial Fellow
2002 - ?
Career position - Assessor, Linkage and Discovery Grants, Australian Research Council
2003 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
2003 - 2004
Award - E. T. S. Walton Fellowship, Science Foundation, Ireland
2004 - ?
Career position - Special Research Fellow, Bionic Ear Institute
2004 -
Award - Fellow, Institute of Physics, United Kingdom
2004
Award - R. H. Stokes Medal, Electrochemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
2004
Career position - Adjunct Professor, Dublin City University, Ireland
2005 -
Career position - Executive Research Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Electromaterials Science
2005 - 2016
Career position - Member, Management Committee, Australian Nanotechnology Network
2006
Award - ARC Federation Fellow
2006 - 2009
Career position - Member, Governing Board, Bionic Technology Australia
2007 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
2007 - 2009
Career position - Member, Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network Management Committee
2008 -
Career position - Member, International Advisory Board, Polymer Electronics Research Centre (PERC), University of Auckland, New Zealand
2008 -
Career position - Member, Advisory Centre for Organic Electronics, University of Newcastle
2008
Award - H. G. Smith Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
2008
Award - Award for Excellence in Chemistry, New South Wales Science and Engineering Awards
2009 -
Career position - Member, Advisory Board, Mawson Institute (later Future Industries Institute), University of Adelaide
2009
Career position - Professor in the World Class University, South Korean Government
2009
Award - SPIE (Smart Structures/NDE) Lifetime Achievement Award, U.S.A.
2009 - 2011
Career position - Member, Sectional Committee (CS5), Australian Academy of Science
2009 - 2011
Career position - Member, Advisory Team for Report on Nanotechnology commissioned by the Australian Government and prepared by the Australian Academy of Science
2011
Award - ARC Laureate Fellow
2012 -
Career position - Advisory Board Member, Institute Frontier Materials, Deakin University
2013
Award - Vice-Chancellor's Award for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Wollongong
2014
Career position - Distinguished Visiting Professor, Shinshu University, Japan
2014
Award - Honorary Doctorate in Chemical Engineering, Hanbat University, Korea
2016 -
Award - Corresponding Member, Academy of Science, Bologna, Italy
2016
Award - CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Innovation and Science, Australian Museum
2017
Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to science and research in polymer materials and their use in biomedical applications, and to national and international collaboration with industry
2017
Award - Scientist of the Year, New South Wales Premier's Prizes in Science
2018
Career position - Chair, International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN), Wollongong
2019 -
Career position - Distinguished Professor, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong
2023 -
Award - Fellow, Royal Irish Academy

Related Corporate Bodies

Related People

  • Clark, Graeme Milbourne (1935 - )

    Graeme Clark and Gordon Wallace worked closely on the bionics of the intelligent polymers and the biological application of the chemistry, and the release of nerve growth factors c.2002

Published resources

Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'Gordon Wallace named 2017 NSW Scientist of the Year', Chemistry in Australia (2018), 29. Details

Resources

See also

Rachel Tropea and Helen Cohn

EOAS ID: biogs/P005715b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005715b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260