Biographical Notes & Contact Details
Dr. Michael Murray
ANZAAS Chair
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e-mail : Mike Murray
Dr Mike Murray worked with CSIRO for 26 years and left in 2001 to set up his own business. He spent 10 years as Chief of the CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Technology, and 5 years subsequently as Corporate Executive. He was a founder of Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd, and X-Ray Technologies Ltd, and oversaw the initiation of several other commercial ventures based on CSIRO research. He founded the Industrial Synchrotron Roundtable, the work of which led directly to the decision to build the Australian Synchrotron. Currently he is Chairman of RFID company Mems-ID Pty Ltd. Mike Murray (a physicist) was educated in the UK at the Universities of Durham and Cambridge. He holds Fellowships in the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institute of Physics (UK), and the Institution of Engineers Australia.
Dr. Peter Kemeny
ANZAAS Deputy Chair
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e-mail : Peter Kemeny
Dr Peter Kemeny began his career as a physicist and before founding his present business, Kemeny Consulting. He spent over twenty five years in research and development in leading laboratories in Australia and elsewhere. Most of his research career was with the Telstra Australia Research Laboratories. Before Telstra he held research positions with the Material Research Laboratory (Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation), the Behlen Physics Laboratory at the University of Nebraska, USA and the Max Plank Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany.
Dr Kemeny.s primary research interest at Telstra was in the area of advanced photonic and optoelectronic devices and materials, for broadband communications. This included planar integrated optical waveguide devices in silica glass and in III-V compond semiconductors, semiconductor lasers, photodetectors, optical modulators and high speed electronic devices.
Dr Kemeny produced Australia.s first semiconductor lasers, first high electron mobility transistors and first quantum Hall effect devices. He was awarded three international patents resulting from this research work, two for optical modulators and one for a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL).
At the Defence Materials Research Laboratories Dr Kemeny.s research covered diverse fields including the synthesis and optical properties of chalcogenide glasses, the interaction of materials with high powered laser beams, the design of thin film optical filters, and the design of accelerator based .free electron lasers.. He also was responsible for the operations of an optical polishing and thin film coating laboratory for the fabrication of custom optics.
Dr Kemeny is an Honorary Research Associate with Monash University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His qualifications include a Bachelors Degree in Science with Honours, and a Ph.D in Physics.
Robert Perrin
ANZAAS Secretary
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e-mail : Robert Perrin
Robert Perrin is an Industrial Chemist with considerable experience at the highest levels in a number of science based industries including food processing; pen and pencil manufacture; hard metal production; metal extraction and refining and printed circuit board manufacture. Responsible for the development of several novel processing methods such as the use of ultrasonic's in mineral processing and the hydro metallurgical extraction of rare and precious metals, he has several patents to his name. Subsequent to the sale of his PCB manufacturing business in 1992, Perrin has been an independent consultant in the processing and manufacturing industries. For the past four years he has broadcast regularly on ABC Radio in South Australia, and for the past two years has been state coordinator of National Science Week in South Australia.
Norman Anthony TRUEMAN
ANZAAS Treasurer
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e-mail : Norman Trueman
Bachelor of Engineering in Applied Geology, with Honors, University of NSW 1960
Master of Science in Geology, University of Adelaide. 1966
Australasian Mining & Metallurgy Bursary, 1957.
Shell Oil Company Petrology Prize, 1958.
Visiting Fellow Commonership, Trinity College, Cambridge,1985
Fellow, Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.
Fellow, Geological Society of Australia
1960-1961 Geologist, NsW Geological Survey (Department of Mines)
1962-1970 Mineralogist, Australian Mineral Development Laboratories. (Officer in charge, Mineralogy and Petrology Section)
1971-1980 Senior Mineralogist, Mines Exploration Pty Ltd. (Broken Hill South Ltd.)
1981-1985 Consultant, Minerals Research, Exploration Division, Western Mining Corporation Ltd.
As a Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge carried out ion microprobe research on the lead-uranium and rare earth
isotopic compositions of the Olympic Dam deposit.
Represented The Australian Mining Industry Council on consultative committee to the Australian Government
and as a Scientific Adviser to the Australian delegation of the International Maritime Organisation.
Served as Working Group Chairman, 1986.
1986-1995 Manager of WMC subsidiary, Advanced Materials Enterprise Pty Ltd Developed applications
technologies leading to new patents, in conjunction with steel metallurgists.
Administered intellectual property in ceramics, defense and metallurgical industries.
1995- N.A.Trueman & Associates Pty Ltd - a consulting company which
also has an exclusive licence to the assets of Advanced Materials Enterprise
Pty Ltd (AME).
Appointed Managing Director of AME in 1997.
Dr Robert Vickery
ACT Representative (Pro Term)
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e-mail : Bob Vickery
Dr Robert Vickery
NSW Representative
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e-mail : Bob Vickery
Professor David Vaux
Vic Division Representative
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e-mail : David Vaux
Professor David Treagust
WA Division Representative
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e-mail : David Treagust
Dr. Peter Smith
TAS Division Representative
No email address given
Professor Lindsay Richards
SA Division Representative
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e-mail : Lindsay Richards
Lindsay Richards has been a member of ANZAAS since 1978 and has held various offices including Secretary, Treasurer and Chair of the South Australian Division and member of the Council. He graduated in dentistry from The University of Adelaide in 1977 and completed his PhD in physical anthropology in 1983. He currently holds a personal chair in the Dental School, Faculty of Health Science in Adelaide. He practices as a specialist dentist in the area of prosthodontics and his research interests include dental anthropology, quantitative genetics (especially growth and development in twins), restorative dentistry and indigenous oral health.
NT Division Representative
NT members should contact the Hon Secretary for the time being.
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e-mail : Secretary
QLD Division Representative
QLD members should contact the Hon Secretary for the time being.
e-mail : Secretary
New Zealand Representative
New Zealand members should contact the Hon Secretary for the time being.
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e-mail : Secretary
Mr Duncan Rouch
Production Editor, The ANZAAS Mercury
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e-mail : Duncan Rouch
Duncan Rouch is currently a research fellow at the School of Agriculture and Food Systems at The University of Melbourne. He is production editor of the ANZAAS Mercury. He has previously worked in government, for the Science, Technology and Engineering Policy unit of the Department of State Development, Victoria, and in the biotechnology industry, for GeneType Pty Ltd.
Pat Quilty, AM
Member-at-Large
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e-mail : Pat Quilty
Pat is Chief Scientist with the Australian Antarctic Division.
ex-officio members
e-mail: Paul Adam
Webmaster of ANZAAS
e-mail : Simon Taylor