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Biography

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Present appointment

2003 - present

Professor, Research School of Earth Sciences,
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Academic qualifications

1968 Bachelor of Science (Geology)
Townsville University College, University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

1969 First Class Honours (Geology)
James Cook University of North Queensland,
Townsville, North Queensland, Australia

1975 Ph.D. (Geophysics)
Research School of Earth Sciences,
The Australian National University,
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Prizes and awards

1963 Royal Society,
Queensland Science Competition

1975 Sir John Crawford Prize,
University Prize, Australian National University

2001 Bruce Hobbs medal,
Excellence in Structural Geology, Structural Geology and Tectonics Specialist Group, Geological Society of Australia

2008 Carey medal,
Geological Society of Australia

Research drivers

• Planetary Tectonics - evolution of the Alpine-Himalayan mountain chain
• Exploration Science - the science of grenfields exploration - gold, diamonds, Pb-Zn-Ag
• Tectonic reconstruction - geodynamically constrained global tectonic reconstruction
• Modelling and Simulation - creation of geologically specific process simulation software
• Reading Rocks - the science of fabric and microstructural analysis
• Structural Geology and Tectonics - from the microscale to the continent scale

Employment record

2003 - 2006 Director-at-Large, ACcESS MNRF
Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator Major National Research Facility

1989-2003 Founding Director, Australian Crustal Research Centre, Monash University

1987-2003 Professor of Earth Sciences, Monash University

1992-1999 Research Coordinator, Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre

1990-1993 Founding Director, Victorian Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences

1987-1990 Head of Department, Department of Earth Sciences, Monash University

1986 Visiting Professor, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, U.S.A.

1984-1987 Principal Research Scientist, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, Australia

1979-1984 Senior Lecturer (Wetenschappelijk Hoofdmedewerker), Institute for Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

1979 Senior Lecturer (Wetenschappelijk Hoofdmedewerker), Geological Institute, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

1974-1979 Lecturer (Wetenschappelijk Medewerker), Geological Institute, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

1970-1974 Research Scholar, Australian National University

1969-1970 Exploration Geologist, GeoPeko Ltd.