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Professor Cameron Jones completed his B.Sc.(Hons) degree at the University of Western Australia in 1984. From 1985–1987, he worked as a Research Officer at the University Department of Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital. His Ph.D. degree was gained from Griffith University, Brisbane, under the supervision of Professor Colin L. Raston in 1992. He then moved to a post-doctoral fellowship (1992–1994) at Sussex University under the supervision of Professor John F. Nixon FRS. From 1994, he held a lectureship at the University of Wales, Swansea, before moving to a Readership in Inorganic Chemistry at Cardiff University (1998). There, he was promoted to a Personal Chair in Inorganic Chemistry in 2002. At Cardiff, he founded (in 2004) and co-directed The Centre for Fundamental and Applied Main Group Chemistry. In 2007, he moved to Monash University, Melbourne, as an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow and Professor of Chemistry. He is currently Professor of Chemistry at that institution. His current research interests are wide ranging, with particular emphasis being placed on the fundamental and applied chemistry of low oxidation state/low coordination number s-, p- and d-block metal complexes, unusual metal–metal bonded systems, main group hydrides, and the replacement of transition metal complexes in stoichiometric and catalytic synthetic procedures.

Professor George Koutsantonis is a synthetic chemist with an interest in functional materials that contain metals. He is a graduate of the University of Adelaide where he obtained his B.Sc.(Hons) and Ph.D. degrees, the latter under the supervision of Michael Bruce. He then undertook a post-doctoral position at the University of Kentucky, working with Jack Selegue. After a fruitful period in the USA, he returned to Australia on an inaugural ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Griffith University in 1991, working with Colin Raston. He was appointed to the staff at the University of Western Australia in 1995 where he remains. In Perth, he established an independent research program in organometallic and inorganic chemistry.