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Assoc. Prof. Geoff Salem

BSc MSc PhD (ANU)

Geoff Salem is the Associate Director of Education of the Research School of Chemistry.

He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a BSc(Hons) and MSc and received his PhD at the Australian National University in 1983. He held Postdoctoral Fellowship positions at the University of Western Australia (1983-1985) and the ANU (1985-1989) before being appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Chemistry at the ANU. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2001 and served as Head of the Department of Chemistry from 2003-2005.

He has had a long association (ca20 years) with the chemistry Olympiad program both at the national and international levels. He was Director of the national program from 2000-2006 and served on the Steering Committee of the International Chemistry Olympiad from 2004-2006.

He was promoted to Associate Professor of the Research School of Chemistry in 2008.


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