Australian Journal of Chemistry Celebrates its Sixtieth Anniversary

Martin Banwell was born and educated in New Zealand. He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1979) and then spent a postdoctoral period with Leo Paquette (Ohio State University). He held academic appointments at the Universities of Auckland (1982–1986) and Melbourne (1986–1995) before moving to the Australian National University (1995–). His research interests are in the area of synthetic organic chemistry, particularly the development of new methodologies and their application to the total synthesis of biologically active natural products. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Royal Society of New Zealand, and the Australian Academy of Science as well as a recipient of the Birch Medal and the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award. Martin Banwell is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of various journals including Chemistry – An Asian Journal, Synlett, Tetrahedron, and Tetrahedron Letters, and is the Chair of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the Australian Journal of Chemistry.