The Liversidge Lecture
The lectureship is awarded at intervals of two years for the purpose of encouragement of research in Chemistry. It was established under the terms of a bequest to the Society by Professor Archibald Liversidge MA LLD FRS, who was Professor of Chemistry in the University of Sydney from 1874 to 1907 and was one of the Council members who sponsored the Society's Act of Incorporation in 1881. The lectures are published in the Journal and Proceedings of the Society.
The Society is pleased to announce that the 2012 Liversidge Lecture, "Low carbon technologies: from brown coal and biomass to solar hydrogen" will be delivered by Professor Thomas Maschmeyer of the University of Sydney and will take place at 6:00pm on Mon 19 November 2012. See the abstract and the flyer for more details.
Venue: New Law Lecture Theatre 101, New Law Building, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney.
Time: 5:45 for 6:00pm, followed by a reception at 7:00pm.
Thomas Maschmeyer
Dr. Thomas Maschmeyer, is Professor of Chemistry and ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney and serves as Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis for Sustainability.
In 2011 he was elected Foreign Member of the Academia Europea as well as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
He is author of 220+ publications, cited 5500+ times, including 16 patents and 22 book chapters (H-Index 40, m-value 2.4). He serves on the editorial/advisory boards of nine international journals and is President of the Catalysis Society of Australia. He received many awards, including the RACI Applied Research Award (2011), the Le Févre Prize of the Australian Academy of Sciences for outstanding basic research in chemistry by scientists under 40 (2007). He is co-founder of the Australian low carbon/renewables start-ups Ignite Energy Resources (2006) and Licella (2007), has been voted to be among the global top 100 "people in bioenergy" (by the readers of Biofuels Digest), and was one of the founding Professors of Avantium (2001), a Dutch High-tech company, now with 115 employees.
After completing his PhD with Assoc. Prof. Anthony F. Masters in 1994, he worked with Prof. Sir John M. Thomas at the Royal Institution of Great Britain as Australian Bicentennial Fellow and became the Assistant Director of the Davy Faraday Laboratories there in 1997, concurrently holding a research position at The University of Cambridge (in the group of Prof. B.J.G. Johnson) and was Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse. In 1998 he was appointed to Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Organic and Catalytic Chemistry at the Delft Institute of Chemical Technology, becoming Vice-Chairman of that Institute in 2000.
He returned in late 2003 to the University of Sydney as ARC Federation Fellow, where he has set up a state-of the art catalysis and process engineering laboratory. He also advises both the Australian Federal and the NSW State governments and holds a number of national and international consultancies.
The Liversidge Lecture in presented in conjunction with the Royal Australia Institute of Chemistry.
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1931 H. Hey 1933 W.J. Young 1940 G.J. Burrows 1942 J.S. Anderson 1944 F.P. Bowen 1946 L.H. Briggs 1948 I. Lauder 1950 H.R. Marston 1952 A.G.L. Rees 1954 M.R. Lemberg 1956 G.M. Badger 1958 A.D. Wadsley 1960 R.J.W. Le Fevre 1962 D.O. Jordan 1964 A. Albert 1966 L.E. Lyons 1968 R.D. Brown 1970 G.W.K. Cavill 1972 - 1974 A.J. Birch 1976 R.L. Martin |
1978 H.C. Freeman 1980 S.R. Johns 1982 D.P. Craig 1984 D.H. Napper 1986 B.G. Hyde 1988 R.J. Hunter 1990 D.StC. Black 1992 S. Sternhell 1994 I.G. Dance 1996 D.J. Swaine 1998 L.F. Lindoy 2000 M.A. Wilson 2002 G. Johnston 2008 Cameron Kepert 2010 John White 2012 Thomas Maschmeyer |
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Awards
- Archibald D. Ollé Prize
- Clarke Medal
- Clarke Memorial Lecture
- Edgeworth David Medal
- James Cook Medal
- Liversidge Lecture
- Poggendorff Lecture
- Pollock Memorial Lecture
- Walter Burfitt Prize
- Warren Prize
- Royal Society of NSW Scholarships
- Royal Society of NSW Medal
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