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Biography

Ezio Rizzardo was born in Onigo, Province of Treviso, Italy on 26 December 1943.

He graduated with First-Class Honours in Applied Organic Chemistry from the University of NSW in 1966 and was awarded a PhD in Organic Chemistry by the University of Sydney in 1969 for his studies on the photochemistry of organic nitro compounds with John Pinhey.

He joined David Solomon‘s group at CSIRO in 1976 after postdoctoral work on the synthesis of biologically active compounds with Richard Turner (Rice University, Houston, Texas), Sir Derek Barton (Research Institute for Medicine and Chemistry, Boston, Massachusetts) and Arthur Birch (Australian National University in Canberra).

At CSIRO he turned his attention to polymer science and has led research teams in the fields of Free Radical Polymerisation, Polymeric Biomaterials and Engineering Polymers, and was the inaugural Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Polymer Blends.

His principal research interests a