Everything Under the Sun: The 11th Pacific Polymer Conference

Andrew Whittaker obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Queensland in the group of Jim O’Donnell, subsequently obtaining postdoctoral experience at the USTL, Montpellier with Patrick Bernier and the MPIP, Mainz with Hans Spiess. He subsequently spent 3 years at BP Research, Sunbury-on-Thames working on solid-state NMR of polymers of interest to that company. In 1991, he returned to the University of Queensland where he was a research scientist within the Centre for Magnetic Resonance, and since 2005 has been a Professorial Research Fellow and Group Leader within CMR (now the Centre for Advanced Imaging) and the Australian Institute for Bioengineering. He leads a group of 40 scientists working on the application of magnetic resonance methods, polymeric biomaterials, and polymers for lithography. He has published over 200 refereed journal papers and over 300 conference papers. Among other activities he has been Chair of the RACI Polymer Division and is the immediate past-president of the Pacific Polymer Federation.