Richard Philip Taylor - Materials Science Institute - University of ...

• University Service (University of New South Wales): I was Head of the Condensed Matter Physics
Department at UNSW (in charge of 9 academic faculty) during 1999-2000.
• University Service (University of Canterbury): I served on the Teaching (curriculum) Committee and I
was the 200-level course co-ordinator (2006-8). I was a member of the University Research Advisory
Group, appointed by the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Science (2007-8). I served on the interview panel for
Rhodes and Woolf Fisher Scholarships (2007).
• University Service (University of Oregon): I was an elected member of the personnel committee (2002-
3) and chair of the committee in (2009-10), in charge of issues such as promotions, tenure etc. I was
chair of the PhD Exam Committee (2004-6) and also served on the Physics Department Graduate
Recruitment Committee (2001-5), the Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee (2002), the Physics
Department Curriculum Committee (2009-10) and have chaired a Faculty Search Committee (2010). I
was the Physics Department Colloquium Organizer (2001, 2004) and the seminar organizer for the
Materials Science Institute (2001-2002). I have served on The Intercollegiate Athletics Committee
(2008-10) and the Humanities Center Advisory Board (2008-11).
• I have served as the scientific advisor for the architecture firm that designed the $1.2M clean room
facility at the Centre for Quantum Computing (UNSW, 1994) and on the UO committees (Coordinating
User Group and Materials/Physical Sciences User Group) that worked with architects to design the
Lewis Integrative Science Building (2008-10).
• Conference Organization and Panels: I was a member of the Organizing Committees for the "5th
International Conference on the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry" (Sydney, 2001), the Oregon
Nanoscience and Microelectronics Institute meeting (Portland, USA, 2006) and was invited to be a
conference facilitator at the industrial physics forum "Capacity Building for Industrial Physics in
Emerging and Developing Economies” in Trieste, Italy (2012). I have served on international
conference panels on subjects ranging from Einstein to Modern Art. These invitations included
Forum21 (France, 2005, where “a limited number of eclectic and accomplished people promote
international discussion of topical issues”), the “Art and Complexity” panel for The Science and
Literature International Conference (France, 2004), the Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa "Intersections in
Science and Humanities Research" panel (USA, 2001) and the Oxford Round Table (2010).
• Research Consultancy: my expertise in fractals, chaos and non-linear science has been used by a diverse
range of institutes, including the Prince of Wales Hospital (Sydney, 1999), the Sydney Police Force
(Sydney, 1999), Eco-Integrations Inc. (USA, 2001-2003), the Hawaii Center For Learning Science
Through Art (USA, 2001) and the architecture firm Envision Design PLLC (2005).
• I head a scientific team that has advised the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) (USA)
and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (PKF) (USA). These are the official organizations for
authenticating art works of major artists and their invitations to serve in this capacity reflects my status
as a leading international expert in pattern analysis.
• I am an elected Chartered Physicist, an elected Chartered Scientist and a member of the Institute of
Physics (U.K.), the American Physical Society, and the Society for Chaos in Psychology.
2.5 Talks/Outreach/Media Coverage
• I am a regular speaker at international conferences. For the period 2000-2012, I have been asked to
present many invited and contributed talks, workshop talks (e.g. The International Conference of the
Society of Chaos in Psychology and the Life Sciences, Boston, USA, 2012), keynote addresses (e.g.
The Third National University Congress on Physics, Mexico, 2009) and banquet speeches (e.g. the
Nobel Foundation Symposium on Quantum Chaos in Sweden, 2000). Reflecting the broad impact of
my work, these invitations came from a diverse range of researchers (physicists, electrical engineers,
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