Person

Haymet, Anthony D.J. (Tony) (1956 - )

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Born
5 February 1956
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Chemical physicist, Chief Scientist, Oceanographer and University Administrator
Website
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5617-2106

Summary

Tony Haymet as announced as the new Chief Scientist of Australia on 28 January 2025 by the Minister for Industry and Science, the Hon Ed Husic MP. The announcement noted that: "Emeritus Professor Tony Haymet will become Australia's tenth Chief Scientist, taking over from Dr Cathy Foley who recently finished her term. Prior to his appointment, Professor Haymet was Chair of the Antarctic Science Foundation and Chair of the ATSE Climate Change Working Group. See:
https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovation/chief-scientist-tony-haymet

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"Dr. Haymet is a highly distinguished researcher with more than 170 peer-reviewed scientific articles. His personal scientific interests include Antarctic fish antifreeze proteins and nucleation. Dr. Haymet has focused on strategic research planning, partnerships, and safety issues, especially in field and laboratory work.

Between 1981 and 1991 Dr. Haymet worked in the USA at Harvard University, UC Berkeley and University of Utah.

He returned to Australia in 1991 and worked as Professor and Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sydney.

In 1998, Dr. Haymet became Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston, and two years later founded the University of Houston Environmental Modelling Institute.

In January 2003, Dr. Haymet became Chief of CSIRO Marine Research, and in July 2005, became Chief of the newly-merged CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. He is also the Founding Director of the Wealth from Oceans Flagship. In 2006, Dr. Haymet was appointed director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego." [from https://thaymet.scrippsprofiles.ucsd.edu/biography/]

Chronology

1981 - 1983
Career position - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1983 - 1988
Career position - Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
1983 - 1989
Award - Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York
1985 - 1990
Award - Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation, U.S.A.
1988
Award - Rennie Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1988 - 1991
Career position - Research fellow, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
1991
Career position - Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
1991 - 1998
Career position - Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Sydney
1992 -
Award - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1994
Award - Antarctic Service Medal, United States Department of Navy and National Science Foundation
1997
Award - DSc, University of Sydney
1997
Award - Distinguished Young Chemist Award, Federation of Asian Chemical Societies
1998 - 2003
Career position - Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
2002 - 2003
Career position - Founder, Environmental Modelling Institute, University of Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
2003 - 2005
Career position - Chief, CSIRO Marine Research
2003 - 2006?
Career position - Member of the Board, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC
2005 - 2006
Career position - Chief, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
2006 - 2012
Career position - Distinguished Professor and Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
2006 - 2012
Career position - Vice-Chancellor of Marine sciences, University of California, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
2009 - 2014
Career position - Member, Global Agenda Council on Oceans, World Economic Forum
2012 - 2013
Career position - Chair, Global Agenda Council on Oceans, World Economic Forum
2016 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
2017 - 2020
Career position - Member of the Board, Worldfish, Penang, Malaysia
November 2021 - January 2025
Career position - Chairman, Antarctic Science Foundation
28 January 2025 -
Career position - Chief Scientist of Australia, Commonwealth of Australia

Published resources

Journal Articles

See also

  • Who's who in Australia 2012 (Melbourne: Crown Content Pty Ltd, 2012), 2430 pp. Details

Gavan McCarthy and Helen Cohn

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