Rate My Professor Kenneth Harris

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.