Person
Fincher, Geoffrey Bruce (1946 - )
AO FAA FTSE
- Born
- 14 May 1946
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Cereal chemist
Summary
Geoffrey Fincher is a cereal chemistry renowned for his work on the structure, biosynthesis and digestion of plant cell walls. Among his discoveries were numerous enzymes involved in the synthesis and degradation of cell wall polysaccharides of barley. He is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls. Between 2003 and 2010 he was Director of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute and Deputy CEO of the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics.
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Chronology
- 1973 - 1974
- Career position - Research Fellow, Brewing Research Foundation, Surrey, United Kingdom
- 1974 - 1976
- Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1977 - 1981
- Career position - Lecturer in Plant Chemistry, La Trobe University
- 1982 - 1987
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in Plant Chemistry, La Trobe University
- 1987 - 1988
- Career position - Member of the Board, Australian Biochemistry Society
- 1988 - 1992
- Career position - Reader in Plant Chemistry, La Trobe University
- 1990 - 2005
- Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Seed science research
- 1991 - 1993
- Career position - Member of the Board, Australian National Genome Information Service
- 1992 - 1993
- Career position - Convenor, South East Australia Malting Barley Improvement Program
- 1993 - 2002
- Career position - Head, Department of Plant Science, University of Adelaide
- 1993 - 2014
- Career position - Professor of Plant Science, University of Adelaide
- 1994 - 2014
- Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Planta
- 1995 - 1996
- Career position - Chair, Cereal Chemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 1995 - 1997
- Career position - Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resource Science, University of Adelaide
- 1998 - 2001
- Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Plant physiology
- 2000 - 2007
- Career position - Director, Program on Functional Genomics in the Growth and End-use of Quality Cereals, Grains Research and Development Corporation
- 2000 - 2013
- Career position - Grant Assessor, Australian Research Council
- 2001
- Award - F. B. Guthrie Medal, Cereal Chemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 2001 - 2009
- Career position - Editor, Journal of cereal science
- 2002 - 2003
- Career position - Deputy Dean, Faculty of Sciences, University of Adelaide
- 2002 - 2004
- Career position - Member of the Board, International Society for Plant Molecular Biology
- 2003 - 2010
- Career position - Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
- 2003 - 2010
- Career position - Director, Waite Agricultural Research Institute
- 2005 - 2014
- Career position - Board Member, A. W. Howard Trust
- 2007 - 2010
- Career position - Editor, Bioenergy research
- 2007 - 2012
- Career position - Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, Biomime, Stockholm Technical University (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
- 2010 -
- Career position - Corresponding Member, American Society of Plant Biology
- 2010
- Career position - Member, Review Panel, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria
- 2011
- Award - South Australian Industry Leader Award
- 2011 - 2014
- Career position - Cluster Leader, Food Futures Flagship Research Cluster on 'High Fibre Grains', CSIRO
- 2011 - 2014
- Career position - Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Wall Biology
- 2013
- Award - Thomas Burr Osborne Medal and Fellow, American Association of Cereal Chemists International
- 2014
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
- 2014
- Award - B. A. Stone Award, Megazyme International
- 2014 - 2017
- Career position - Member, Australian Research Council College of Experts
- 2014 - 2017
- Career position - Member, South Australian Science Council
- 2015 -
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Adelaide
- 2015 - 2017
- Career position - Senior Scientific Consultant, Carlsberg Breweries A/S, Denmark
- 2016 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 2016
- Award - Kaj Lindestrom-Lang Prize, Carlsberg Laboratory, Denmark
- 2017
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) or distinguished service to science and education, in the area of plant genomics, as an academic, researcher and administrator, through scientific advisory roles, and to international professional societies
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See also
- Robson, Alexandra K.; Production Manager and Editor eds, Who's who in Australia 2019 (Southbank, Vic.: AAP Directories, 2018), 1788 pp. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 8 January 2019, Last modified: 6 February 2024