Mark Humphrey
Australian National University
Biography
Mark Humphrey has BSc (Hons), PhD and DSc degrees from the University of Adelaide and a Docteur honoris causa degree from Université Rennes 1. He held positions at Universität Würzburg, the University of Illinois, and the University of New England, before being appointed to the Department of Chemistry at the Australian National University where he is currently a Professor.
He has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Telecom Research Laboratories (Australia), the Science and Technology Agency (Japan), and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, as well as four fellowships from the Australian Research Council. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the European Academy of Sciences, and is an elected Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea. He has received the RACI’s Organometallic Award, Inorganic Award (Burrows Award), H.G. Smith Memorial Award, and A.E. Leighton Memorial Award, and the David Syme Research Prize. He is interested in the optical and electronic properties of inorganic complexes, with a particular focus on the nonlinear optical properties of organometallics and metal clusters.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, NJC (New Journal of Chemistry)