Celebrate the achievements of our 25, 30, 40 and 50 year members at the NSW Branch Fellows and Honorary Life Members Lunch!
This event has been running for many years and it provides a wonderful opportunity to connect with friends, old and new, and listen to the wisdom of a guest speaker on an aspect of Chemistry and life as a Chemist.
We are very honoured to have Professor Tony Haymet, Australia's Chief Scientist, as our guest speaker for the event. Prof Haymet is an emeritus distinguished professor of oceanography. He has researched and taught for many years in Australia and in the United States, including as Established Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sydney. He has worked in hydrophobicity, crystal-liquid interfaces, fish antifreeze proteins in Antarctica, and the spherical football molecule C60.
From 2002 to 2006, Prof Haymet was chief of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, based in Hobart, Tasmania. From 2006 to 2012, he was Vice-Chancellor, Director and Distinguished Professor of Oceanography, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. In 2010, Prof Haymet and a colleague at the Scripps Institution established MRV Systems LLC, a company that manufactures ocean robots. The autonomous drones take chemical and physical measurements across the world’s oceans. Prof Haymet was a board member and Chair of the Antarctic Science Foundation (2020-2025), a board member of Worldfish, based in Penang (2017-2020), and served on the Oceans Council of the World Economic Forum (WEF) including as Chair. He was Director, Oceans, at the Minderoo Foundation where he established a philanthropic research program (2020).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).
Prof Haymet will outline the successes and challenges in Science, and in particular Chemistry, over the coming years and his life as a Chemist.
Held in the beautiful surroundings of L:'Aqua at Cockle Bay Wharf, you will enjoy a sumptuous 3 course meal, with wine and canapes served on arrival and during the lunch.
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