Associate Professor Peter Lye
Associate Professor of Chemistry - School of Science and Technology
Biography
After Dr Lye completed his PhD in the area of inorganic chemistry at the University of Newcastle in 1995 he was appointed as postdoctoral research fellow within the group of Prof. André E. Merbach at the Insitut de Chimie Minéral et Analytique, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. During this time his research concentrated on the use of both high and ambient pressure stopped-flow techniques in the elucidation of complex reaction mechanisms.
From 1998 - 2002 Dr Lye worked on a number of industrially funded projects (AMIRA Project P497A Cyanide Waste Management and AMIRA Project P420B, Gold Processing Technology) within the A.J. Parker Cooperative Research Centre for Hydrometallurgy at Murdoch University in Perth, WA. The projects were/are supported by a cross-section of Australian, South African and North American gold producing companies (Brokered by the Australian Mineral Industries Research Association Ltd) with my research focusing on the management of cyanide within gold ore processing operations.
In January 2003 he accepted the position of lecturer in Chemistry at the University of New England and maintained his research links with the AJ Parker CRC for Hydrometallurgy through being appointed as Honorary Visiting Researcher In August 2003 and in 2009 was promoted to senior lecturer. He has held the positions of Convenor of Chemistry and Deputy Head of School for Science and Technology, and has held the position of Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Science since 2015. In 2017 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
