Professor Sydney R Hall

Professor Syd Hall is the inaugural Head of the new School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences in the Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences. The school has been formed from the previous departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, and Physiology, and the Crystallography Centre. Prior to this appointment he was Director of the Crystallography Centre, and the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis.

Professor Hall is currently a Board Member of the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the Lawrence Art Gallery Board. His scientific interests are principally in the area of knowledge representation and data ontologies, and he is Co-editor of the International Tables Volume "Crystallographic Information" and Member of the IUCr Commissions on International Tables, Nomenclature, and CIF.

As Head of the Crystallography Centre he was responsible in 1997 for the formation and funding of the Biological Structure Laboratory which is currently housed in Pharmacology at the QEII Centre. He is past President of the Society for Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (SCANZ), and was the Foundation President of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA) which is the regional professional association of the societies in India, China, Japan, Korea, and Australia/NZ.

Professor Hall is the Chair of the Organising Committee for the 2003 Conference of AsCA03 and Crystal-23; the first occasion that the AsCA and SCANZ meetings have been combined.

His research interests include:

• Ontologies, Knowledge Representation
• Data interchange processes
• Symmetry notation
• Electronic publishing
• Scientific software

• Journals, Books
• Talks, Conferences