Professor Thomas W Healy AO

Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, The University of Melbourne

Researcher biography

MSc(Melb), PhD(Columbia), DSc(Hon), FRACI, FAA, FTSE, AO

Colloid and Surface Chemistry
Structure properties and function of aqueous interfaces
Control of the stability and rheology of colloidal dispersions
Adsorption of simple and complex ions, molecules, surfactants, polymers at aqueous interfaces
Mineral and materials processing fundamentals

Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship (1965)
Rennie Medal (1968)
Grimwade Prize, University of Melbourne (1974)
Liversidge Lecturer, ANZAAS (1985)
ICI (Aust) Inaugural Bicentennial RACI Lectureship (1988)
AE Alexander Lectureship, RACI and the University of Sydney (1991)
Royal Society of Victoria, Medallist (1992)
The Ian Wark Medal & Lecture of the Australian Academy of Science (1999)
Centenary of Federation Medalist (2003)
The Royal Australian Chemical Institute 40 year Membership Award (2003)
Senior Australian of the Year 2004, Victorian Finalist (2004)
Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 40 Year Membership Award (2005)
Admitted as an Officer in the order of Australia for services to science as a researcher and academic in the area of physical chemistry, and to the community through support for the activities of the Ian Potter Foundation and Philanthropy Australia (2005)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, May-June (2006)
A.M.Gaudin Award of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) (2007)
Elected as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering (2008)
Certificate of Merit Journal of Colloid & Interface Science Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Colloids and Interface Science (2008)
Awarded the inaugural NATURE Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in Australasian Science (2009)
Sir Eric Rideal Medallist, a joint award of the Royal Society of Chemistry UK and the Society of Chemical Industry UK (2010)