School of Chemistry, UNSW

The Field Group

Professor Les Field is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney and following posts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and then at Oxford, he took up a position at the University of Sydney in 1982. During his time at Sydney, he was Head of the School of Chemistry from 1997 to 2001 and held the positions of Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science, Chair of the University Research Committee, Deputy Chair of the Academic Board and Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research). In 2005 he moved to the University of New South Wales.

His main areas of research are organometallic chemistry, catalysis and NMR spectroscopy. He is the author of more than 170 scientific papers, 4 textbooks and a number of book chapters. He was the recipient of the Organic Chemistry Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1994 and was elected as a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science in 1996. He was the Deputy Director of the successful Cooperative Research Centre for Molecular Engineering and Technology from 1992-8.

Research Groups

The Field Group