Education
Bachelor of Arts degree from University of New South Wales in 1971.
Master"s degree in al Psychology from Florida State University in 1978.
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Roger Powell
Major General Roger Anthony Powell Department of Administration and Management is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army.
Career
His last post was to serve as Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor. Prior to that position he served Commander of Training Command – Army, and as Director General of Land Development for the Australian Defence Headquarters. In addition, Powell served as Commander of the 6th Brigade from 1993 to 1995.
Achievements
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Powell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His nomination reads:
Powell, along with Timothy Holland of Cambridge University developed a widely used thermodynamic database for minerals and developed the THERMOCALC software to undertake calculations on geological material. The software and database are housed on the THERMOCALC website.
Powell was also elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2006.
He was awarded the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain’s Schlumberger Award in 2007 and the Norman L. Bowen Award in 2009.
