Dr Stuart Batten
Senior Lecturer
BSc(Hons), PhD, MRACI, C.Chem, GCHE
Address: School of Chemistry, Monash University 3800, Australia.
Telephone: (03) 9905 4606
Fax: (03) 9905 4597
Email: stuart.batten@sci.monash.edu.au
Web: http://www.chem.monash.edu.au/staff/sbatten/index.html
Summary
Research
Publications (pdf 340kb)
CV
Molecular Art
Interpenetration
Genealogy
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Stuart Robert Batten
B.Sc.(Hons), Ph.D., MRACI, C.Chem., GCHE
Address: School of Chemistry, Monash University 3800, Australia.
Telephone: (03) 9905 4606
Fax: (03) 9905 4597
Email: stuart.batten@sci.monash.edu.au
Web: http://www.chem.monash.edu.au/staff/sbatten/index.html
Year of Birth: 1969
Qualifications
Bachelor of Science (Degree with Honours). 1991. University of Melbourne.
Doctor of Philosophy. 1996. University of Melbourne.
Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. 2007. Monash University.
Awards
2008 - Thomson Scientific Citation Award. Award recognised the highest average citation rate amongst Australian researchers in the field of Chemistry for the period 1997 to 2007. Report in The Australian newspaper here; further information here.
2008 - Le Fèvre Memorial Prize. Recognises outstanding basic research in chemistry by scientists under 40. Announcements here and here.
2007 - Cosmos Bright Sparks Award. Selected as one of Australia's top 10 scientific minds under 40. More information here, here and here.
2006 - Victorian Young Tall Poppy Science Award. Featured in Monash Memo and Monash Newsline; more information here.
2006 - Inaugural Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research by Early Career Researchers, Monash University. Featured in Monash Newsline; award booklet here.
2006 - Inaugural Faculty of Science Award for Excellence in Research by Early Career Researchers, Monash University.
2005 - HG Andrewartha Medal of the Royal Society of South Australia. This Medal is awarded to a scientist under the age of 40 in recognition of outstanding research.
2003 - Edgeworth David Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales. This Medal is awarded annually to a scientist under the age of 35 for distinguished contributions to Australian science.
2002 - Rennie Memorial Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. This Medal is awarded annually to a member of the RACI under the age of 35 who has contributed most towards the development of some branch of chemical science. Such contribution is judged by the research work published during the ten years immediately preceding the award.
Career Highlights
2007 - Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry, Monash University.
2006 - Lecturer, School of Chemistry, Monash University.
2001-2005 - ARC Australian Research Fellow, Monash University.
1998-2000 - ARC Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University, with Prof. Keith Murray.
1997-1998 - Postdoc, University of Melbourne, with A/Prof. Richard Robson.
1996-1997 - Postdoc, Monash University, with Prof. Keith Murray.
1995-1996 - Postdoc, University of Bristol, U.K., with Dr. John C. Jeffery.
1991-1996 - Ph.D. University of Melbourne. Submitted 5/9/95; completed 15/2/96; conferred 28/8/96. Thesis title: Infinite polymeric frameworks. Supervisors: Dr. Richard Robson and Dr. Bernard F. Hoskins.
1987-1990 - B.Sc. (Hons), University of Melbourne. Completed 1/12/90; conferred 13/3/91. Chemistry major, Physics sub-major. Honours Research Project: “The synthesis and structural characterisation of infinite rutile-related frameworks.†Supervised by Dr. R. Robson and Dr. B. F. Hoskins.
Research Highlights
An international reputation in the area of crystal engineering, and a world leading expert on the phenomenon of interpenetration of networks in crystal structures.
142 refereed journal publications, 6 book chapters, 72 conference presentations. Publication 14 is one of the most heavily cited papers in its field (over 1900 citations). Publication 42 was the very first 'Highlight' paper written for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal CrystEngComm, and is the second most highly cited paper to have been published in this journal to date (238 citations). Publication 2 was highighted in an editorial article in Science, and chosen as one of the highlights of the year for chemistry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Book of the Year, 1996. Publications 31, 48, 52, 116 and 132 are highlighted on the covers of their respective journals.
High citation rates. Total citations (to the end of 2007) are 6521, or over 45 citations per published paper. Twelve papers have over 100 citations each, and 22 have more than 50 citations. H-index = 38, m = 2.38.
Referee for more than 500 papers submitted to 36 different journals since 2000 (including Chem. Comm., Dalton, New J. Chem., Chem. Soc. Rev., JACS, Inorg. Chem., Angew. Chem., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., Aust. J. Chem.), as well as ARC, NSERC (Canada), KOSK (Norway), NSF (USA) and PRF (USA) funding applications. Examiner for one M.Sc. and three Ph.D. theses.
Chaired a session at the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2003, Singapore Dec. 2003); co-chaired microsymposia at the Asian Crystallographic Association 2004 conference (AsCA'04, Hong Kong, June 2004), at IUCr XX (Florence, Aug. 2005), and a session at Crystal XXV (2007).
Extensive collaborations and requests for my expertise from 36 distinct research groups since 2000, based in Australia, China, India, Denmark, Japan and the United Kingdom. These include the groups of Prof. Keith Murray (Monash), Prof. Leone Spiccia (Monash), Prof. Bruce West (Monash), Prof. Doug MacFarlane (Monash), Prof. Glen Deacon (Monash), Dr. Alan Chaffee (Monash), Prof. Cameron Kepert (Sydney), Dr. Christine J. McKenzie and Prof. Hans Toftlund (Odense, Denmark), Prof. Michael D. Ward (Sheffield, UK), Prof. Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto, Japan), Prof. Samiran Mitra (Jadavpur, India), Dr. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee (Bangalore), Dr. Miao Du and Prof. Xiao-Jun Zhao (Tianjin Normal U, Tianjin, China), Prof. Xian-He Bu and Prof. Jimin Zheng (Nankai U, Tianjin, China), Prof. Song Gao and Dr. Zheming Wang (Beijing, China), Prof. Xian-Ming Zhang (Linfen, China), Prof. Yao-Yu Wang (Northwest U, Xi'an, China), Dr. Quan-Guo Zhai (Shaanxi Normal U, Xi'an, China), Dr. Shi-Yao Yang (Xiamen, China), Prof. En-Bo Wang and Prof. Jian-Fang Ma (Northeast Normal U, Changchun, China), Prof. Xiao-Ming Chen and Dr. Ming-Liang Tong (Sun Yat-Sen U, Guangzhou, China), Prof. Hong Deng (South China Normal U, Guangzhou, China), Dr. Yu-Bin Dong (Jinan, China), Prof. Rong Cao and Dr. Can-Zhong Lu (Fuzhou, China), Prof. Fupei Liang (Guangxi Normal U, Guilin, China), Prof. Ning-Hai Hu (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China), Dr. Xiang He (Shanghai U, China), Dr. Paul Kruger (U Canterbury, NZ), and Prof. Ed Constable (Basel, Switzerland). Previous collaborations with Prof. Richard Robson (Melbourne), Dr. John Jefferey (Bristol, UK), Prof. Jon A. McCleverty (Bristol), Dr. Ben J. Coe (Manchester), Prof. F. Gordon Stone (Waco, Texas), and Dr. Mohamedally Kurmoo (Strasbourg, France).
Funding
Including fellowships, personal ARC funding since 1998 is more than $1.2M; CI on grants of more that $3.5M.
ARC Discovery Grant, 2007-2009 ($270K).
ARC Discovery Grant, 2006-2008 ($272K).
ARC LIEF Grant, 2005 ($651K).
AINSE Grant, 2005 ($9K).
ARC Research Networks Grant, 2004-2008 ($1.5M).
ARC Discovery Grant, 2004-2005 ($180K).
ARC Discovery Grant, 2002 ($20K).
Monash Research Fund research, 2002 ($10K), 2003 ($30K), 2006 ($20K).
ARC Australian Research Fellowship, 2001-2005 ($405K).
ARC Small Grant, 2000.
Ian Potter Foundation Travel Grant, 2000.
Monash University Research Fund (MURF) Travel Grants, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005.
Elsevier Golden Jubilee Bursary to attend ICCC34 conference, Edinburgh, 2000.
Grant from International Union of Crystallography to attend 28th International Crystallography School, Erice, Italy, 1999.
ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1998-2000 ($150K).
"Young Scientist" award, Society of Crystallographers in Australia, to attend AsCA '92, 1992.
Australian Postgraduate Research Award at maximum stipend, 1991 - 1994.
Committee Memberships
Member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of The Open Inorganic Chemistry Journal, The Open Condensed Matter Physics Journal, and The Open Crystallography Journal (2007-).
Co-chair of the inaugural Australian Crystallographic School (2007-).
Secretary of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (SCANZ) (2007-).
Chair of the Inorganic Chemistry Special Interest Group of the Victorian Branch of the RACI (2004-).
Victorian representative for the Inorganic Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) (2003-).
Member of the Single Crystal Instrument Advisory Team for the OPAL Research Reactor, Lucas Heights (2003-).
Member of the Science Faculty Board, Monash University (2007-).
Member of the Organising Committee for the Crystal 25 conference, Hunter Valley 2007.
Seminar Coordinator, School of Chemistry, Monash University (2005-).
Member of the Zone 13 OHSE Committee, School of Chemistry, Monash University (2006-).
Radiation Safety Officer, School of Chemistry, Monash University (2006-).
Manager, X-ray Diffraction Facilities, School of Chemistry, Monash University (2006-).
Teaching Highlights
Third Year Coordinator, 2007 - 2008.
CHM1022 General Chemistry, 2003 - 2005.
CHM2180/3180 Materials Chemistry: Biomaterials, Macromolecules and Smart Materials, 2000 - 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008.
CHM2731 Chemistry C (Chemistry for Engineers), 2001 - 2003.
CHM3911 Spectroscopy, Synchrotron and Structure, 2001 - 2008.
CHM3990 Chemistry Project, 2007 - 2008.
BMC3104 Drug Discovery and Development, 2006 - 2007.
CHM431 Techniques and Methods in Inorganic Chemistry, 1999 - 2002.
CHM4000 Metallosupramolecular Chemistry, 2006 - 2008.
CHM4000 Instrumental Chemistry, 2006 - 2008.
Supervision of three Honours students, one MSc. part I student, one MSc. student, eight PhD students, and three postdocs
Professional Affiliations
Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute since 1989.
Member of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia since 1990.
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