Biography

Murray Batchelor was born in Taree, NSW, Australia. He completed 1st Class Honours with a University Medal in Theoretical Physics at The University of New South Wales in 1983. He completed his PhD in Mathematics at The Australian National University in 1987 and then worked for a year at Instituut Lorentz for Theoretical Physics in Leiden, The Netherlands.

He was supported by the Australian Research Council through the consecutive awards of a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellowship, two Senior Research Fellowships and an Australian Professorial Fellowship. He has also held numerous Large Grants with the Australian Research Council.

He was awarded The Australian Academy of Science Pawsey Medal (1997) for outstanding research in physics and The Australian Mathematical Society Medal (1998) for distinguished research in the mathematical sciences. He isthe only researcher to receive both awards in mathematics and physics.

He was promoted to full Professor at ANU in 2001. From mid 2005 to April 2013 he was Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics, RSPE.

Professor Batchelor has held visiting positions at the Universities of Amsterdam, Oxford and Tokyo. Most recently he was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford during Michaelmas Term 2013.

In June 2008 Professor Batchelor was awarded an Honorary Professorship from Chongqing University in Chongqing, China. During 2013 he took up a position there in the Centre for Modern Physics under the 1000 Talents Plan.

Professor Batchelor served a term as Editor-in-Chief (2009-2013) of the UK based Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. Prior to this he was Mathematical Physics Section Editor (2007-2008) and