Professor Gordon G. Wallace
PhD, DSc, FTSE

Gordon Wallace was appointed as a Professor at the University of Wollongong in 1990. Professor Wallace was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) QEII Fellowship in 1991 and an ARC Senior Research Fellowship in 1995. He was awarded a DSc from Deakin University in 2000. In 2002 he was appointed to an ARC Professorial Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI). He received the Inaugural Polymer Science and Technology award from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in 1992. He was awarded an ETS Walton Fellowship by Science Foundation Ireland in 2003 and in the same year was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He received the RACI Stokes Medal for research in Electrochemistry and was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) in 2004.

Professor Wallace has published more than 380 refereed publications and a monograph on inherently conducting polymers for intelligent material systems. He has supervised 40 PhD students to completion and currently supervises 12. Professor Wallace currently serves as Research Director of the new Australian Research Council Centre for Nanostructured Electromaterials and the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute.