Paul Prenzler

Biography

A/Prof Prenzler completed a BSc(Hons) and PhD at the University of Queensland, where he researched platinum anti-cancer compounds. He then spent a year as a visiting Research Scientist at the Advanced Research Laboratory of Hitachi, in Japan, working on a project related to optical computing and genetically engineered octopus rhodopsin. Returning to Australia, A/Prof Prenzler was a postdoctoral fellow at the Research School of Chemistry ANU, where he was involved in several projects in inorganic electrochemistry, including the development of the first electrochemical cell designed to operate in a superconducting magnet in a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer. His next postdoctoral appointment was at Melbourne University, which also involved inorganic electrochemistry, and from Melbourne he was appointed lecturer in Chemistry at CSU in July 1997.

Research Interest

the measurement of antioxidant activity