Professor Andrew Holmes
University Laureate Professor of Chemistry, CSIRO Fellow & Distinguished Research Fellow (Imperial), The University of Melbourne
Researcher biography
Profile
- BSc, University of Melbourne, 1964
- MSc, University of Melbourne, 1967
- PhD, University College London, 1971
- MA (1973); ScD (1997) University of Cambridge
- Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH-Zürich, 1971 - 72
- University Demonstrator (Assistant Lecturer), University of Cambridge, 1972 - 1977
- University Lecturer, University of Cambridge, 1977 - 1994
- Reader in Organic and Polymer Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 1995 - 1998
- Professor of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 1998 - 2004
- Director, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge, 1994 – 2004
- Professor of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, Imperial College (on leave), 2004 - 2009
- ARC Federation and VESKI Fellow, University of Melbourne, 2004 - 2009
- FRS (2000), AM (2004), FAA & FTSE (2006)
Research interests
Electroactive organic and polymeric materials
- Synthesis
- Solar cells
- Light emitting devices
Biological chemistry
- Intracellular signalling
- Phosphatidyl inositol polyphosphates
- Nicotinic acetyl choline receptor
Natural product synthesis
- Histrionicotoxins
- Medium ring ethers