Professor David V Boger

B.S.Chem.Eng., Bucknell University
M.S.Chem.Eng., University of Illinois
Ph.D.Chem.Eng., University of Illinois

Laureate Professor

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Telephone: (61) 3 8344 7440
Fax: (61) 3 8344 6233

Room 3.18, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Building 1

Current Research Activities

• Environmental Engineering
  • Waste Water Processing and Recycling
  • Sustainable Technologies

• Nano and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Microfluidics

• Materials and Minerals Engineering

  • Rheology and Polymer Fluid Mechanics

David Boger has held positions in Chemical Engineering at both Monash University and The University of Melbourne in Australia. He is one of three inaugural Laureate Professors at the University of Melbourne; he holds the Chair of Chemical Engineering; he is immediate past Director of the Particulate Fluids Processing Centre (a Special Research Centre of the Australian Research Council) and a Program Leader in the Cooperative Research Centre for Bioproducts.

He is former Head of Chemical Engineering and Deputy Director of the Advanced Mineral Products Centre; he is the immediate Past President of the Australian Society of Rheology and was the Australian Delegate on the International Committee on Rheology (ICR) from 1978 1983, and again from 1990-2004.

His research is in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics with interests ranging from basic polymer and particulate fluid mechanics to applications in the minerals, coal, oil, food, and polymer industries.

From 1991-2002 Professor Boger was Chairman of the Trade Waste Acceptance Advisory Committee, a group which advises the City of Melbourne on industrial trade waste discharges to the trunk sewer system. He held the position of BHP Billiton Fellow from 2000-2003.

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow, The Royal Society
• Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
• Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• Member, Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, The University of Wales (Aberystwyth , Bangor and Swansea)
• Member, American Society of Rheology
• Member, Australian Society of Rheology (Immediate Past President)
• Member, British Society of Rheology

Honours/Awards

• Annual Award of the British Society of Rheology "In acknowledgement of your notable contributions to Rheology", 1983
• Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Research, 1985
• Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1989
• Esso Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering, 1991
• Fellow, Australian Academy of Science, 1993
• Pol Eureka Prize for Environmental Research, 1993
• Australian Society of Rheology Medallion, 1994
• Walter Ahlström Environmental Prize ($80,000) of the Finnish Academies of Technology, 1995
• 1995 Alcoa (U.S.A.) Environmental Excellence Award
• Special Chief Investigator Grant from the Australian Research Council, 1997-1999
• CSIRO External Medal "for research excellence", 1998
• Flinders Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science, 2000
• 2000 Chemeca Medal
• 2002 Victoria Prize
• Anne and Eric Smorgon Memorial Award 2002 ($100,000 awarded in association with the Victoria Prize)
• K L Sutherland Memorial Medal 2002
• 2003 Clunies Ross National Science and Technology Award
• Centenary Medal, 2003
• Gold Medal of the British Society of Rheology, 2004
• The Prime Minister's Prize for Science, 2005
• Doald L Katz Lectureship, The University of Michigan, 2006
• Fellow, The Royal Society, 2007

Professional Experience

International consultant - having consulted for over 90 companies worldwide.