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Professor Les FieldBSc (1975), PhD (1979), DSc (1991), University of Sydney |
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Professor Les Field has been appointed to the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of New South Wales effective 29 March 2005. Professor Les Field is a graduate of the University of Sydney (PhD in Chemistry in 1979) then, following Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and at Oxford he took up a position at the University of Sydney in 1982. He was awarded a DSc in 1991 by the University of Sydney. He was Head of the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney from 1997 to 2001 and he has served as the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science from 1998 to 2001, Deputy Chair of the Academic Board and Chair of the University Research Committee (1999 to 2001). He was the Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) from 2001 to 2003 at the University of Sydney before resuming his position a s Professor of Organic Chemistry until March 2005. His main areas of research are organometallic chemistry, catalysis and NMR spectroscopy. He is the author of more than 160 scientific papers and 4 text books. He was the recipient of the Organic Chemistry Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1994 and was elected as a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science in 1996. He was the Deputy Director of the successful Cooperative Research Centre for Molecular Engineering and Technology from 1992 to 1998.Research interests and achievements
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