Gordon Wallace

Gordon George Wallace is a scientist in the field of electromaterials. His students and collaborators use of nanotechnology in conjunction with organic conductors for energy conversion and storage as well as medical bionics. He has developed approaches to fabrication that allow material properties discovered in the nano world to be translated into micro structures and macro scopic devices.

Wallace's research interests include new materials and the use of these in energy and biomedical devices.

Wallace is currently Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute and the former Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (Materials Node) both headquartered at the University of Wollongong. He was also previously Executive Research Director at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science He was awarded a DSc from Deakin University in 2000.

Research years Wallace asserted that this instability could, if understood, be directed and controlled, allowing the creation of "intelligent" polymers – materials that sense and respond to stimuli.

In September 2008, Wallace's team moved to research facilities at the University of Wollongong's new Innovation Campus based at North Wollongong.

He published the book Organic Bionics. He has an h index of 110 and has amassed in excess of 60,000 citations.

Awards and honours

Wallace was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2003 and of the Australian Academy of Science in 2007. He was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia and Wollongong's Australia Day Ambassador in 2017.

Later that year Wallace was named NSW Scientist of the Year.

He received the Inaugural Polymer Science and Technology award from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in 1992. He was awarded an ETS Walton Fellowship by Science Foundation Ireland in 2003. In 2009 he was awarded a lifetime achievement award by SPIE.

He was appointed to the Prime Ministers Knowledge Nation 100 in 2015. He received the Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science and Innovation in 2016.

Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellowship, 2011 Honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy

Selected publications

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