Person

Copeland, Leslie Joshua (Les) (1946 - )

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Born
5 September 1946
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Agricultural chemist

Summary

Les Copeland is an agricultural chemist whose interests lie in the connections between food science and agricultural production. His research has focused on the chemistry of food grains, the biochemistry of nitrogen-fixing symbioses of legumes, the regulation of plant carbon metabolism, food starches and the effects of growing conditions on cereal grain quality. In 2001 Copeland was appointed Professor of Agriculture at the University of Sydney.

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Chronology

1971 - 1972
Career position - Research Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
1972 - 1973
Career position - Research Fellow, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
1974 - 1992
Career position - Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer) in Agricultural Chemistry, University of Sydney
1979 - 1980
Award - Fulbright Fellow, University of California, Davis, California, U.S.A.
1993 - 2000
Career position - Head, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, University of Sydney
2001 - 2007
Career position - Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Sydney
2001 - 2008
Career position - Director, CRC for Value Added Wheat
2001 - 2017
Career position - Professor of Agriculture, University of Sydney
2003 - 2005
Career position - Director, Australian Cotton CRC
2004 -
Career position - Member, Research Advisory Committee, Australian Farm Institute
2006 - 2007
Career position - Chair, Committee of Deans, University of Sydney
2007 - 2008
Career position - President, Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture
2009 -
Career position - Member, Biological Science and Biotechnology Committee, Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Energy
2011
Career position - Foundation Editor, Agriculture journal
2013 -
Career position - Member, Australian Cotton Innovation Network
2014 - 2015
Career position - Member of Council, Australasian Grain Science Association
2016 -
Career position - Editor-in-Chief, Cereal chemistry
2017 -
Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
2017 - 2019
Career position - Member of the Board, Cotton Research and Development Corporation
2019
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to agricultural science as an academic and researcher
2020
Award - F. B. Guthrie Medal (jointly), Australasian Grain Science Association

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See also

  • Copeland, Les, 'A century of agriculture in the University of Sydney', Agricultural science, 31 (2) (2020), 59-65. Details

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