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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2019-09-17 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006570b.htm person Copeland Leslie Joshua AM AACR2 5 September 1946 Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Agricultural chemist Les Copeland is an agricultural chemist whose interests lie in the connections between food science and agricultural production. His research has focused on the chemistry of food grains, the biochemistry of nitrogen-fixing symbioses of legumes, the regulation of plant carbon metabolism, food starches and the effects of growing conditions on cereal grain quality. In 2001 Copeland was appointed Professor of Agriculture at the University of Sydney. 1971 1972 Career position - Research Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. 1972 1973 Career position - Research Fellow, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. 1974 1992 Career position - Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer) in Agricultural Chemistry, University of Sydney 1979 1980 Award - Fulbright Fellow, University of California, Davis, California, U.S.A. 1993 2000 Career position - Head, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, University of Sydney 2001 2007 Career position - Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Sydney 2001 2008 Career position - Director, CRC for Value Added Wheat 2001 2017 Career position - Professor of Agriculture, University of Sydney 2003 2005 Career position - Director, Australian Cotton CRC 2004 Career position - Member, Research Advisory Committee, Australian Farm Institute 2006 2007 Career position - Chair, Committee of Deans, University of Sydney 2007 2008 Career position - President, Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture 2009 Career position - Member, Biological Science and Biotechnology Committee, Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Energy 2011 2011 Career position - Foundation Editor, Agriculture journal 2013 Career position - Member, Australian Cotton Innovation Network 2014 2015 Career position - Member of Council, Australasian Grain Science Association 2016 Career position - Editor-in-Chief, Cereal chemistry 2017 Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney 2017 2019 Career position - Member of the Board, Cotton Research and Development Corporation 2019 2019 Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for significant service to agricultural science as an academic and researcher 2020 2020 Award - F. B. Guthrie Medal (jointly), Australasian Grain Science Association The University of Sydney (1850 - )

Professor of Agriculture 2001 - 2017; Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources 2001 - 2007

 Australasian Grain Science Association (2009 - )

Member of Council 2014 - 2015

 Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) (1958 - )

Member, Biological Science and Biotechnology Committee 2009 -

 Australian Cotton CRC (1999 - 2005)

Director 2003 - 2005

 CRC for Value Added Wheat (2001 - 2008)

Director 2001 - 2008

 F. B. Guthrie Medal, Australasian Grain Science Association (1974 - )

Awarded the Medal (jointly) 2020

 'Copeland, Leslie Joshua (Les)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Copeland, Leslie Joshua (Les) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Queen's Birthday honours for ASBMB Members Anon Queen's Birthday honours for ASBMB Members 2019 Australian biochemist 50 2 29-30 Journal Article: A century of agriculture in the University of Sydney Copeland, Les A century of agriculture in the University of Sydney 2020 Agricultural science 31 2 59-65