1983-6 BSc(Hons) First class, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
1987-9 PhD, with Professor V. McKee, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
1990-1 Postdoctoral Fellow, with Professor G.M. Sheldrick, Göttingen Universität, Göttingen, Germany
1990 Offered a 1990-1992 British Ramsay Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
1991 Appointed as a Lecturer, University of Otago, New Zealand
1994 Claude McCarthy Fellowship
1996 Sabbatical leave as a Humboldt Fellow, with Professor K. Wieghardt, MPI für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim, Germany
1998 Bilateral Research Activities Programme award
1999 Easterfield Medal (NZIC, RSC)
2000 Sabbatical leave: Visiting Professorship at Queens University Belfast with Professor Jane Nelson; Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Grant at Bristol University with Professor Mike Ward, Dr John Jeffery and Professor Jon McCleverty.
2003 FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award (Federation of Asian Chemical Societies)
2004 Sabbatical leave: Visiting Professorship at the Centre for Functional Nanostructures, University of Karlsruhe with Professor Annie Powell.
2006 MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Principal Investigator
2007 Sabbatical leave (October): Visiting Professorship at the Centre for Functional Nanostructures, University of Karlsruhe with Professor Annie Powell.
2007 Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand
2008 Francis Lions Memorial Lecturer, Sydney University Chemical Society
2009 NZIC Maurice Wilkins Centre Prize for excellence in chemical research
2010 Awarded the 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Australasian Lectureship
2011 Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
2013 Sabbatical leave: Visiting Professorship at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany, with Prof Annie Powell (1 month)
2015 Invited to present the inaugural triennial Curtis Lecture, Victoria University Wellington
2015 Awarded the University of Otago Distinguished Research Medal
2017 Awarded the 29th Inorganic Chemistry Award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the Burrows Award
2017 Francis Lions Memorial Lecturer, Sydney University Chemical Society, Australia
2017 Queen’s Birthday Honour: appointment as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, MNZM
2017 Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) for outstanding work in chemical, physical or mathematical and information sciences:
2018 Francis Lions Memorial Lecturer, Sydney University Chemical Society, Australia
2019 Inaugural Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professor (1 of 7), University of Otago (2020-4)
