Topic: Approaches to Environmentally Benign Marine Fouling Control
Speaker: Professor Anthony S Clare, School of Marine Science &Technology Newcastle University
Time: 15:00, December 5, 2017
Venue: Room 346, Building 25, Wushan Campus
Biography: Professor Clare is a marine chemical ecologist with a special interest in marine invertebrate larval settlement. After receiving his PhD at Bangor University, he worked as RA at University of Newcastle. Then, he worked at Duke University as a Postdoc and Research Assistant Professor for 5 years. He returned to UK in 1993 for a Fellowship at the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth and was appointed to Lecture at Newcastle in 1998. He was promoted to Reader in 2001 and Chair of Marine Science in Newcastle in 2003. He is now the Chair of Comité International Permanent pour la Recherche sur la Préservation des Matériaux en Milieu Marin (COIPM) and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. He has a seat on National Oceanography Centre Association Steering Board. He also serves on Editorial Boards of Biofouling, Scientific Reports and several other journals. His research interests focus on interfacial biology including marine biofouling/antifouling, bioadhesion/adhesives, chemical ecology and aquaculture.