Department Head, Department of Materials Science & Engineering – Monash University
Professor Neil Cameron undertook his BSc (1987-1991) and PhD (1991-1994) at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. Following two post-doctoral periods at Eindhoven University of Technology then Heriot-Watt University, he was appointed Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University (UK) in Oct 1997. In 2005 he was promoted to Reader (Associate Professor) then in October 2008 to Professor. In September 2014, he moved to Melbourne to become the Monash-Warwick Alliance Professor of Polymer Materials, based at Monash University. In July 2019 he became Head of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Monash University. His research is focused on the development of novel polymeric materials and biomaterials, with particular emphasis on scaffolds for 3D in vitro cell culture and tissue engineering, self-assembling polypeptides, peptide-synthetic polymer hybrids and sugar-containing polymers (glycopolymers). He was awarded a DTI SMART Award (2001), the Macro Group UK Young Researcher’s Medal (2003), an ICI Strategic Fund Award (2004), a Durham University Christopherson/Knott Fellowship (2008) and he was a member of the team that won the RSC’s Rita and John Cornforth award (2011).