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1983-6<\/strong> BSc(Hons) First class, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
\n1987-9<\/strong> PhD, with Professor V. McKee, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
\n1990-1<\/strong> Postdoctoral Fellow, with Professor G.M. Sheldrick, G\u00f6ttingen Universit\u00e4t, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany
\n1990<\/strong> Offered a 1990-1992 British Ramsay Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
\n1991<\/strong> Appointed as a Lecturer, University of Otago, New Zealand
\n1994<\/strong> Claude McCarthy Fellowship
\n1996<\/strong> Sabbatical leave as a Humboldt Fellow, with Professor K. Wieghardt, MPI f\u00fcr Strahlenchemie, M\u00fclheim, Germany
\n1998<\/strong> Bilateral Research Activities Programme award
\n1999<\/strong> Easterfield Medal (NZIC, RSC)
\n2000<\/strong> 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.
\n2003<\/strong> FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award (Federation of Asian Chemical Societies)
\n2004<\/strong> Sabbatical leave: Visiting Professorship at the Centre for Functional Nanostructures, University of Karlsruhe with Professor Annie Powell.
\n2006<\/strong> MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Principal Investigator
\n2007<\/strong> Sabbatical leave (October): Visiting Professorship at the Centre for Functional Nanostructures, University of Karlsruhe with Professor Annie Powell.
\n2007<\/strong> Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand
\n2008<\/strong> Francis Lions Memorial Lecturer, Sydney University Chemical Society
\n2009<\/strong> NZIC Maurice Wilkins Centre Prize for excellence in chemical research
\n2010<\/strong> Awarded the 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Australasian Lectureship
\n2011<\/strong> Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
\n2013<\/strong> Sabbatical leave: Visiting Professorship at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany, with Prof Annie Powell (1 month)
\n2015<\/strong> Invited to present the inaugural triennial Curtis Lecture, Victoria University Wellington
\n2015<\/strong> Awarded the University of Otago Distinguished Research Medal
\n2017<\/strong> Awarded the 29th Inorganic Chemistry Award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the Burrows Award
\n2017<\/strong> Francis Lions Memorial Lecturer, Sydney University Chemical Society, Australia
\n2017<\/strong> Queen’s Birthday Honour: appointment as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, MNZM
\n2017<\/strong>\u00a0 Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ)\u00a0for outstanding work in chemical, physical or mathematical and information sciences:<\/p>\n