Previous main appointments

ANU Chief Operations Officer, Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies (2005-8)
JCU Reader/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Physics/ A/Dean of Science (1973-2001)
BoM Meteorologist/ Cadet Meteorologist (1965-9)
Invitational appointments/fellowships
Université Libre Bruxelles, Acad. Sci. Exchange Fellow (2006)
University of Oklahoma Professor of Physics (2005)
INP, Greifswald, Germany (2001-2); Univ. Düsseldorf (1979-80) Humboldt Fellow
Keio University, Japan Hitachi Chair of Electrical Engineering (1994)

Honorary appointments

President (2009-), Vice-President (2007-9), Secretary (1997-2005), Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows (www.humboldtaustralia.org.au)

Sporting

Cricket
ANU (1969-72), Edmonton Harlequins (1973), JCU President, A-grade Captain, Life Member (1973-95), Berlin Cricket Club (2002)
Basketball
Secretary and Director, Townsville Basketball, Inc. (1991-5)

Languages

German (reasonably fluent)
French (working)
Japanese (working)

Fields of research

Statistical mechanics of charged particles in gases & condensed matter

Boundary layer meteorology, turbulent transport processes

Publications

Books: 2 physics, 1 meteorology
Papers: 100+ in physics and meteorology

Institutions where research carried out

Australia: Australian National University; James Cook University; CSIRO Land and water

Europe: University of Cambridge; Université Libre Bruxelles; University of Heidelberg; University of Freiburg; Inst. for Low Temperature Plasma Physics, Greifswald; University of Düsseldorf; Inst. of Physics, Belgrade

North America: Brown University; University of Alberta; University of Oklahoma; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Chatham College, Pittsburgh

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