Mark WAINWRIGHT Emeritus Professor
	location	Room 132 Chancellery
	telephone	9385 3970
	facsimile	9385 1385
	email	Mark.Wainwright@unsw.edu.au
	School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering The University of New South Wales UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia

Qualifications	Professor Mark Wainwright was appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of UNSW from 1 July 2004 until his retirement in June 2006. Prior to this appointment, Professor Wainwright had been the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University from mid-April 2004. Professor Wainwright was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & International), from January 2001. He holds an Honours Degree in Applied Chemistry and a Master of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Adelaide, a PhD in Chemical Engineering from McMaster University in Canada and a DSc for his research into Skeletal Catalysts from the University of South Australia. In 2007 he was awarded a Doctor of Science (honoris causa) by the University of New South Wales. His academic career at UNSW commenced in 1974 as a lecturer in the School of Chemical Technology in the then Faculty of Applied Science and, in 1989, he was awarded a personal chair for his research in catalytic reaction engineering. In 1991 he was appointed Dean of Australia’s largest Faculty of Engineering, a position he held until the end of 2000. During 1998 and 1999 he concurrently held the position of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research). He has served on the boards of a number of Co-operative Research Centres for various periods, he was also a director on the boards of: Unisearch Limited; AGSM Limited; Group of Eight Limited; NewSouth Global Pty Limited; POWMRI Limited; U21pedagogica Limited; U21 Equity Limited; Universitas 21 LBG; Garvan Institute of Medical Research; and Australian Technology Park Innovations Pty Ltd. In 2004, Professor Wainwright was awarded an AM for his service to chemical engineering as a researcher and academic, and to tertiary education. In 2006, he was appointed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Australian Government to the position of Chair of the Australian-China Council for a period of five years. In the same year, he was appointed Chair of the New South Wales General Sir John Monash Awards Panel. In 2007, he was appointed Chair of the National Computational Infrastructure Steering Committee by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. In 2008, he was appointed chair of INTERSECT Ltd. Professor Wainwright is an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
Awards and Honours	AM
Research Interests	Catalysis and Catalytic Reaction Engineering
Selected Publications	Professor Mark Wainwright has published more than 240 refereed papers and patents over the course of his career at UNSW. Listed below are his ten career-best publications. Young, D.J., Wainwright, M.S. and Anderson, Raney nickel-copper catalysts I, structure and leaching properties, J. Catalysis, 64, 116-123, (1980). Wainwright, M.S. and Anderson, R.B., Raney nickel-copper catalysts II, surface pore structure, J. Catalysis, 64, 124-131, (1980). Friedrich, J.B., Wainwright, M.S. and Young, D.J., Methanol synthesis over Raney copper-zinc catalysts I - Activities and surface properties of fully extracted catalysts, J. Catal., 80, 1 (1983). Friedrich, J.B., Young, D.J. and Wainwright, M.S., Methanol synthesis over Raney copper-zinc catalysts II - Activities and surface properties of fully extracted catalysts, J. Catal. 80, 14, (1983). Onuoha, N.I., Wainwright, M.S., Tomsett, A. and Young, D.J., Preparation and properties of Raney copper foraminate catalysts, J. Catal. 91, 25-35, (1985). Monti, D.M., Cant, N.W., Trimm, D.L. and Wainwright, M.S., Hydrogenolysis of methyl formate over copper on silica. Part I, Study of surface species by in situ infra red spectroscopy, J. Catalysis 100, 17-27, (1986). Monti, D.J., Cant, N.W., Trimm, D.L. and Wainwright, M.S., Hydrogenolysis of methyl formate over copper on silica, Part II, Study of the mechanism using labelled compounds, J. Catalysis, 100, 28-37, (1986). Kohler, M.A., Cant, N.W., Wainwright, M.S. and Trimm, D.L., Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Carbon Monoxide Adsorbed on a series of Silica-Supported Copper Catalysts in different Oxidation States. J. Catal. 117, 188-201, (1989). Smith, A.J., Ma, L., Tran, T. and Wainwright, M.S., Effect of Chromate Additive on the Kinetics and Mechanism of Skeletal Copper Formation, J.Appl.Electrochem., 30, 1097-1102 (2000). Smith, A.J., Munroe, P.R., Tran, T. and Wainwright, M.S., FIB Preparation of a Sensitive Porous Catalysts for TEM Elemental Mapping at High Magnifications, J.Mat.Sci., 36, 3519-3542, (2001).