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Batten, Stuart Robert

FRACI

Born
Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Chemist and Crystallographer
Website
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4603-8683

Summary

Stuart Batten was born and raised on a farm in country Victoria. He completed his BSc(Hons) (1990) and PhD (1996) at the University of Melbourne with Richard Robson and Bernard Hoskins on metal-organic frameworks crystallography. This was followed by postdoctoral positions at Bristol, Melbourne and Monash, including two Australian Research Council Fellowships. He commenced a Lectureship at Monash in 2006, and has been a full Professor since 2012. [See: Batten Research Group - https://stuartbatten.net/group/]

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1990
Education - BSc (hons), University of Melbourne
1996
Education - PhD, University of Melbourne
2002
Award - Rennie Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
2003
Award - Edgeworth David Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
2004 - 2010
Career position - Chair, Victorian Inorganic Chemistry Group, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
2005
Award - H. G. Andrewartha Medal, Royal Society of South Australia
2006
Award - Young Tall Poppy Science Award (Victoria), Australian Institute of Policy and Science
2008 -
Award - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
2008
Career position - Co-Chair, inaugural Australasian Crystallography School
2008
Award - Le Fèvre Memorial Prize, Australian Academy of Science
2012 -
Career position - Professor, School of Chemistry, Monash University
2014 - 2016
Career position - President, Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand
2014 - 2017
Career position - Chair, Commission for Structural Chemistry, International Union of Crystallography
2015 - 2023
Career position - Member, National Committee for Crystallography, Australian Academy of Science
2017 -
Award - Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry

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