CURRICULUM VITAE
Professor Robert Leith DEWAR, FAA

Date and Place of Birth: March 1, 1944, Melbourne

Academic Qualifications:
BSc (1964), MSc (1967), University of Melbourne.
PhD (1970) Princeton University.

Honours:
Centenary Medal, 2003.
Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, 1992.
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1980.

Present Appointment:
Professor, Level E(2), Institute of Advanced Studies, Research School of Physical
Sciences & Engineering (RSPhysSE), ANU, July 1996 - present
Convenor, ARC Complex Open Systems Research Network (COSNet)

Past Appointments:
Assist. in Research, Plasma Phys. Lab., Princeton Univ. (PPPL) Sep. '67 - Aug. '70.
Center for Theor. Physics Postdoc. Fellowship, Univ. of Maryland, Sep. '70 - Sep. '71.
Research Associate, PPPL 1971 - 1973.
Research Fellow, The Australian National University, 1974 - 1976.
Senior Research Fellow, The Australian National University, 1976 - 1977.
Research Staff Member, PPPL, 1977 - 1979.
Research Physicist, PPPL, 1979 - 1981.
Principal Research Physicist, PPPL, 1981 - 1982.
Senior Fellow, The Australian National University, 1982 - 1992
Professor, Level E(1), The Australian National University, October 1992 - July 1996
Head, Plasma Research Laboratory, RSPhysSE, January 1995 - February 1997
Interim Director, National Plasma Fusion Research Facility, Feb. 1996 - Feb. 1997
Head, Department of Theoretical Physics, RSPhysSE, August 1998 - July 2001

Outside Studies Appointments:
Visiting Scientist, PPPL, 24 March - 20 May 1983
Visiting Scientist, PPPL, 27 April - 25 June 1984
Participant in Program on
"Stochasticity, Turbulence, & Long-Time Behavior in Plasmas"
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
26 March - 24 June 1985
Visiting Scientist, PPPL, 1 - 29 May 1987
Visiting Scientist, Centre de Recherche en Physique des Plasmas
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 1 June - 21 August 1987
Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas, Austin, USA, 11 Nov 1991 - 24 Jan 1992
Visiting Scientist, Columbia University, New York, USA, 3 - 25 February 1992
Guest Lecturer, Internat. Centre for Theor. Physics, Trieste, Italy, 16 May - 4 June 1993
Visiting Scientist, Heinrich-Heine Univ., Düsseldorf, Germany, 1 - 9 June 1995
Visiting Professor, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan, 20 Feb. - 23 May 1997
Visiting Scientist, PPPL, 1 - 27 June 1998
Visiting Scientist, PPPL, 4 September - 28 November 2000
Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Inst. for Plasma Physics, 17 Sept. – 25 Oct. 2002
Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, 9 February – 10 June, 2003
Exchange Visitor, University of Texas at Austin, 16 May – 4 June, 2004
Visiting Scientist, PPPL 5–19 June, 2004

Membership of Learned Societies (in addition to Austral. Acad. Sci. and APS):
Australian Institute of Physics.
South-East Asia Theoretical Physics Association.
Australian Mathematical Society.
International Association of Mathematical Physics

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