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Professor Philip Kuchel Secretary (Science Policy)

Professor Philip Kuchel, FAA

Philip Kuchel has been a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Sydney since 1980. He has published over 300 scientific papers and, amongst several books, he has co-edited Schaum’s Outline of Theory and Problems of Biochemistry.

His research is classified as Physical Biochemistry; it involves biochemical analyses as well as mathematical and physical descriptions of macromolecular and cellular systems. His main technological focus is nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR).

In 2001 he received an inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision.

He has been President of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Australian Society for Biophysics, and inter alia Chair of the Academy’s Europe Exchange Committee, National Committee for Biomedical Sciences, and Nuffield Fellowships Committee.


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