Kenneth Harris is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Science at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. A graduate of the University of Adelaide, he earned his BSc in 1965, BSc (Hons) in 1966, and PhD in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry in 1970 under the supervision of Peter Dunlop. Following his PhD, Harris held research positions at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada; the Diffusion Research Unit in the Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University; and the Van der Waals Laboratory at the University of Amsterdam. He also held lectureships at Chelsea College, University of London; the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; and the Phillip Institute of Technology in Melbourne, where he advanced to Senior Lecturer in 1986.

Harris joined University College (now UNSW Canberra) in 1987 as Lecturer, progressing to Senior Lecturer in 1988, Associate Professor in 1998, and Head of the School of Chemistry from 2001 to 2003, until its merger into the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, now the School of Science. He retired in July 2004 but continues research as Honorary Associate Professor; experimental work discontinued in mid-2021. As a physical chemist, his major research interests center on measuring thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids and fluid solutions and relating these to statistical mechanical theory. Key areas include ionic liquids, with collaborations on self-diffusion coefficients and viscosities at high pressure with Dr. Mitsuhiro Kanakubo at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; molecular liquids for international high-pressure viscometry standards; and properties of water and aqueous solutions. He co-authored the monograph Diffusion in Liquids with H.J.V. Tyrrell in 1984 and has published 129 journal articles, four book chapters, and more. Harris belongs to the European Molecular Liquids Group and the International Association for Transport Properties.

Professional Email: k.harris@unsw.edu.au