Professor Gordon G. Wallace

Qualifications
BSc (Hons. 1st Class) Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, 1978
PhD Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, 1983
DSc Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, 2000

Position in IPRI

Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute.
Executive Research Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science.

Biography

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. In 2006 he was awarded an ARC Federation Fellowship.

Professor Wallace has published more than 380 refereed publications and two editions of a monograph on inherently conducting polymers for intelligent material systems. He has supervised 47 PhD students to completion. Professor Wallace currently serves as the Executive Research Director of the new Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science.

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) in 2004.

• Chairman of the Advisory Board of the International Conference on Synthetic Metals, held in Wollongong 2004.
  
  
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, awarded 2003.
  
  
• Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
  
  
• Chairman, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Electrochemistry Division, 1997 - 2000.
  
  
• Chairman, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Wollongong Branch, 1987 - 1988.
  
  
• Member, Irish Chemical Institute Council, 1984 - 1985.
  
  
• Member, Chemical Industry - U.C.C., Liaison Committee, 1984 - 1985.
  
  
• Chairman, Irish Chemical Institute Symposium, 1985.
  

Five Most Significant Relevant Journal Publications 1998-2000

1. W. Lu, A.G. Fadeev, B. Qi, E. Smela, B.R. Mattes, J. Ding, G.M. Spinks, J. Mazurkiewicz, D. Zhou, G.G. Wallace, D.R. MacFarlane, S.A. Forsyth, M. Forsyth “Use of Ionic Liquids for p-conjugated Polymer Electrochemical Devices” Science. 2002, 297, 983-987.
   
2. R. H. Baughman, C. Cui, A. A. Zakhidov, Z. Iqbal, J.N. Barisci, G. M. Spinks, G. G. Wallace, A. Mazzoldi, D. De Rossi, A. G. Rinzler et al., “Carbon nanotube actuators” Science. 1999, 284 (5418), 1340-1344.
   
3. G.M. Spinks, L. Liu, D. Zhou, and G.G. Wallace, “Strain response from polypyrrole actuators under load” Advanced Functional Materials. 2002, 12 (6-7), 437-440.
   
4. Geoffrey M. Spinks, Gordon G. Wallace, Leonard S. Fifield, Larry R. Dalton, Alberto Mazzoldi, Danilo De Rossi, Ilyas I. Khayrullin, and Ray H. Baughman, “Pneumatic Carbon Nanotube Actuators,” Advanced Materials. 2002, 14 (23), 1728-1732.
   
5. M. R. Gandhi, P. Murray, G. M. Spinks, and G. G. Wallace, “Mechanism of electromechanical actuation in polypyrrole” Synth. Met. 1995, 73 (3), 247-56.
   
   

Total Number of Peer-Reviewed Research Publications 1990 to 2004: 380

email: gordon_wallace@uow.edu.au
phone: +61-2–4221 3127
fax: +61-2-4221 3114

Professor Gordon Wallace