Wednesday Luncheon #5038 with Dr Rod Hill

This week lunch meeting will be held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the... Adelaide Oval MG Suite One, L3 Riverbank Stand, War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide

Web booking closes Monday February 24 12 noon!

Payment on the day at the Welcome Desk by Card only. 

Includes Main Course, shared Cheese platter and Tea/Coffee, good company, great speaker and all done by 2pm!

 Guest Speaker Dr Rod Hill

The Unacknowledged Materials and Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy

Short Bio

Dr Rod Hill is a retired Chief Research Scientist and Group Executive for Exploration, Mining, Mineral Processing and Manufacturing at the CSIRO and a former Pro Vice Chancellor for Industry Engagement and Commercialisation at Monash University. He has PhD and DSc degrees from the University of Adelaide, South Australia in crystallography, crystal chemistry and mineralogy. He has published more than 110 research papers in the international literature in the primary areas of energy storage materials, crystal structure systematics and chemical bonding in silicate minerals, and more recently on X-ray and neutron diffraction data collection and structure refinement. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy and Technological Science and Engineering (ATSE), the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, and the Mineralogical Society of America. The mineral “Hillite” was named after him in 2003. He is currently the Chair of the SA&NT Division of ATSE.

Other Information

Since retirement I have been able to take up my lifelong passion for astronomy and, in particular, chasing total solar eclipses.  My wife and I have now seen 13 of them in interesting and exotic places around the world.  I have published two books on eclipses and have another book in press that deals with space travel (non fiction).

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Please note the venue - MG Suite One, Adelaide Oval, L3 Riverbank Stand, War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide