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Professor Alan Rowan

The University of Queensland

Professor Rowan is an experienced physical materials chemist with a track record in fundamental and applied research in novel molecules and materials for applications in field as wide as catalysis, nanoelectronics, biomimetic machines and more recently synthetic extracellular matrices. In my group we strive to understand the relationship between molecular architecture and macroscopic functions, designing and synthesizing new materials as well as building new analytical tools to study them. This relationship has led to a fundamental understanding of how to control material properties, which we have applied to a wide range of societal problems such as wound healing, cell growth and organic solar cells.

After completing his first postdoctoral appointment in New Zealand in 1993 Professor Rowan returned to Europe as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Nijmegen. He was based in Europe since then, securing a string of successful Research and Teaching Positions in the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) at the University of Nijmegen. In 2005 he became a Full professor at the University of Nijmegen, where he established a new research department of Molecular Materials, within the Institute of Molecules and Materials. As head of this research cluster Professor Rowan led a team of assistant professors, support staff and more than 50 PhDs and Post Docs and masters’ students.

In 2016 Professor Rowan became the Director of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and an ARC Laureate Fellow in the area of mechanotransduction, which allowed me to establish a new research group at UQ in the area of mechano-biochemistry. In addition to his appointment in the AIBN at UQ, he is an honorary Professor at both the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands), and has a Special Frontiers Materials Professorship at the Chinese Academy of Chemical Sciences 2015-2016.

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Professor Kazuo Sakurai
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Professor Hideharu Mori
Associate Professor Jenny Pringle
Dr Franck D’Agosto
Dr Muriel Lansalot
Associate Professor Joselito Razal
Professor Neil Cameron
Dr Maria Chiara Arno
Dr Bruno De Geest
Professor Derek Irvine
Professor Bart Jan Ravoo
Dr Amanda Pearce
Professor Laura De Laporte
Professor Guosong Chen
Professor Greg Qiao
Mr Sebastian Spierling
Assistant Professor Christian Pester
Professor Dr Andreas Walther
Dr Rona Chandrawati
Professor Tanja Junkers
Dr Frederik Wurm
Professor Michelle Coote
Dr Guillaume Delaittre
Associate Professor Bronwyn Laycock
Associate Professor Kei Saito
Professor Darren Martin
Dr Marion Gaborieau
Assistant Professor Maxwell J Robb
Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic
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Professor Naoko Yoshie
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