Rate My Professor Cameron Kepert

Professor Cameron Kepert is a Professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney. He holds a BSc with First Class Honours from the University of Western Australia in 1991 and a PhD from the Royal Institution of Great Britain and the University of London. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church before joining the University of Sydney in 1999, where he has progressed from Lecturer and Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor and Professor in Chemistry. His fields of research include inorganic materials including nanomaterials, physical properties of materials, structure and dynamics of materials, and transition metal chemistry.

The Kepert Group, led by Professor Kepert, focuses on advanced functional materials, primarily the design, synthesis, and properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and coordination polymers. Research encompasses gas storage and separation such as hydrogen fuel storage and carbon dioxide capture, spin crossover modulated by host-guest interactions for potential applications in displays, sensing, and data storage, and anomalous thermal expansion including negative and zero thermal expansion arising from structural flexibility. Characterization employs single crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray and neutron crystallography, PPMS magnetometry, and gravimetric and gas sorption techniques. Professor Kepert has held the ARC Federation Fellowship (2006-2010) and ARC Future Fellowship (2011-2014), served as Director of the SIEF Initiative (2011-2016), and received the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year (2005), Liversidge Award and Lectureship in the Chemical Sciences (2008), and CrystEngComm Outstanding Paper Award (2023). He has attracted more than $8 million in research funding since 2000. Key publications include 'Guest-Dependent Spin Crossover in a Nanoporous Molecular Framework Material' (2001), 'A Versatile Family of Interconvertible Microporous Chiral Molecular Frameworks: The First Example of Ligand Control of Network Chirality' (2000), and 'Advanced functional properties in nanoporous coordination framework materials' (2004), contributing to nearly 19,000 citations and an h-index of 70.