Person
Evans, Robert (1949 - )
- Born
- 8 July 1949
Paddington, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Wood scientist
Summary
Robert Evans is noted for is research into wood and its properties, including colloidal polymer chemistry and physics, paper strength improvement and pulping kinetics. His research led to the development of the SilviScan™ rapid wood analysis system which has been adopted world-wide. He received the 2001 Wallenberg Prize for this research. Having joined the CSIRO Division of Chemical and Wood Technology in 1988, Evans was appointed a CSIRO Fellow in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering in 2007.
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Chronology
- 1972
- Education - BSc (Hons), University of Sydney
- 1976
- Education - PhD on 'Steric Stabilisation', Physical Chemistry Department of the University of Sydney in 1976
- 1976 - 1978
- Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow at the Empire State Paper Research Institute, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, USA
- 1978 -
- Career position - Member, Appita
- 1978 - 1982
- Career position - Research Officer, Research Division, Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd (AMP)
- 1983 - 1984
- Career position - Senior Research Officer, Research Division, Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd (AMP)
- 1985 - 1987
- Career position - Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Chemical and Wood Technology
- 1988 - 1989
- Career position - Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Biotechnology
- 1989 - 1993
- Career position - Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Biomolecular Engineering
- 1994 - 1997
- Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Biomolecular Engineering
- 1997 -
- Award - Fellow, International Association of Scientific Papermakers
- 1997
- Award - L. R. Benjamin Medal, Appita
- 1997 - 2002
- Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Molecular Science
- 2001 -
- Award - 18th Marcus Wallenberg Prize, Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden
- 2001
- Award - CSIRO Chairman's Gold Medal
- 2002
- Career position - Distinguished Lecturer, University of Toronto, Quebec, Canada
- 2003
- Career position - Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Molecular Science
- 2003 - 2005
- Career position - Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Molecular Science
- 2004 -
- Career position - Member, International Association of Wood Anatomists
- 2004 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
- 2004
- Award - Clunies Ross National Science and Technology Award, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
- 2004
- Award - Josef Umdasch Prize (joint), Umcasch Group, Austria
- 2005 - 2006
- Career position - Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies
- 2007 - 2008
- Career position - Fellow, CSIRO Forest Biosciences
- 2008 -
- Career position - Fellow, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering
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Published resources
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q944851. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/65836864. Details
- 'Evans, Robert (19490708-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1514357. Details
Resource Sections
- Gartner, Steve, 'Robert Evans', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Evans-Robert. Details
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Created: 24 February 2012, Last modified: 15 August 2023