Associate ProfessorGreg Russell

Elected Vice-President of IUPAC Division IV (Polymer Division) in 2010 (terms of office will be Vice-President 2012-2015, President 2016-2019). This is one of the 8 divisions of IUPAC, which is the premier worldwide society in chemistry.

In addition to other conference organization already detailed, I have been an (ordinary) member of the following conference organizing committees: (1) 11th Pacific Polymer Conference (Cairns Aust, Dec 2009): organizer of symposium on “Mechanistic Aspects of Free Radical Polymerisation” and member of Australian/New Zealand Organising Committee; (2) 43rd IUPAC World Polymer Congress, Macro2010 (Glasgow UK, Jul 2010): scientific committee for symposium on “Polymerization kinetics and new concepts in polymerization”.

Elected chair of IUPAC Subcommittee on "Modeling of Polymerization Kinetics and Processes" in 2007. This is a group of 40 leading researchers in the area who are from academia and industry and are spread across 13 countries, including all the world's leading research nations (USA, Germany, France, Japan, UK, etc.).

Appointed chair of the organizing and scientific-program committees of the 28th Australasian Polymer Symposium and 16th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials (Rotorua NZ, Feb 2006). This conference attracted 340 delegates and had a budget of about NZ$250k, making it one of the major events of NZ science in 2006.

Fellowship of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (elected 2005). FRACI is the highest level of membership of the RACI.

From 2004-6 I was the (elected) chair of the Polymer Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. The Division has approximately 800 members and financial reserves of about AU$200k, making it one of the most powerful groupings of scientists in Australasia.

Member of IUPAC-sponsored research taskgroups on (i) propagation rate coefficients, and (ii) terminology in free-radical polymerisation.

Chair of the RACI (Royal Australian Chemical Institute) Polymer Division, Dec. 2004 - Feb. 2006. The RACI PD represents the interests of approximately 1000 Australasian polymer scientists and has financial reserves of over AU$250k – leading this group was a major task!