Adjunct Professor Robert Robson
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Qualifications | BSc QLD, DipMet BoM, PhD, FAPS, FRMetS |
Office phone | (07) 478 15057 |
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Webpage | http://www.jcu.edu.au/eps/staff/JCU... |
Curriculum vitae | Robson CV (202KB PDF) |
Publication list | Robson publication list (134KB PDF) |
Biography
Present position
James Cook University: Professorial Research Fellow, School of Eng & Phys Sci, Townsville (2008- )
Previous substantive appointments
ANU: Senior Fellow, AMPL and Chief Operations Officer, Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies (2005-8)
James Cook University: Assoc Dean of Science, Reader/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Physics (1973-2001)
Bureau of Meteorology: Meteorologist Class 1 and Cadet Meteorologist (1965-9)
Visiting positions and fellowships
DESY, Hamburg: Visiting Professor (2011, 2012)
Université Libre Bruxelles: Acad. Sci. Exchange Fellow (2006)
University of Oklahoma: Professor of Physics (2005)
Humboldt Fellow: INP, Greifswald, Germany (2001-2); Univ. Düsseldorf (1979-80) Univ Heidelberg (1995)
Keio University, Japan: Hitachi Chair of Electrical Engineering (1994)
JSPS Senior Fellow: Keio University (1992-3)
Professional and community service
Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows: President (2009-12), Vice-President (2007-9), Secretary (1997-2005) (www.humboldtaustralia.org.au)
JCU Cricket Club: President, A-grade Captain, Life Member (1973-95),
Townsville Basketball Inc: Secretary and Director (1991-5)
Research interests
Fields of research
Statistical mechanics of charged particles in gases & condensed matter
Boundary layer meteorology, turbulent transport processes
Publications
Books: 1 physics, 1 meteorology
Papers: 130 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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