John R. Haight
“Most of my professional career has been spent teaching at the University of Tasmania Medical School, specifically neurobiology, histology and anatomy. Starting in 1971 as a lecturer, I was promoted through the ranks to Sr. Lecturer (1975) and Reader (1980). Three years (1980-1982) were spent on secondment to the Research School of Biological Sciences at ANU.
I also spent a year as a UNESCO sponsored Professorial Fellow at the Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest, Hungary in 1988. I served for a number of years as head of the anatomy department at the University of Tasmania.
In 1991 I took early retirement from academia to try my hand in the business world providing training and consultancy services in the ICT industry, something in which I had always had a serious interest. I returned to academia in 1999 and finally ‘retired’ at the end of 2006. Retirement didn’t really suit, so in a moment of alcohol fuelled bravado I ‘volunteered’ to take on the duties of Tasmanian Branch Administrator for the Australian Computer Society on a part-time basis, the post I currently occupy.
My research interests, mostly arcane and impenetrable for the non-specialist, mainly centre around comparing structure and function in marsupial brains to those of our better known placental relatives. My most intelligible exposition of these interests can be found in Elvesier’s Encyclopedia of Neuroscience in the article: Marsupial Brains.”
Academic
BA – North Central College, Naperville, Illinois, USA. Engineering Physics, 1964 (Interrupted by 3 yrs in the US Armed Forces)
MSc – Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Michigan, USA. Biophysics, 1968
PhD – Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Michigan, USA. Zoology, Evolutionary Neurobiology, 1971
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