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DrTim Connell

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

Tim is currently a researcher and senior lecturer in Chemistry at Deakin and an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2021 recipient. Tim is a synthetic inorgnanic chemist whose research focuses on the development of photoactive materials for use in sustainable catalysis and sensing. His work has been recognised with Fulbright Future Scholarship 2019, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute's Organometallic Prize 2022 and the Asian Photochemistry Association's Young Scientist Prize 2023.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer
    Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  • Bachelor of Science (Hons)
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Macromolecular and materials chemistry
  • Inorganic chemistry
  • Photochemistry
  • Catalysis and mechanisms of reactions
  • Organometallic chemistry
  • Transition metal chemistry

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Life and Environmental Sciences

SPECIALIST RESEARCH GROUP

  • Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts

AREAS OF EXPERTISE