Ian Plimer - Career

Career

Ian Plimer worked at the Broken Hill mines from 1973 to 1983, ultimately for North Broken Hill Ltd. as chief research geologist. Due to his publication of a number of academic papers, he was offered a job as senior lecturer at the University of New England. After two years, he left to become a professor and head of geology at the University of Newcastle from 1985 to 1991. Plimer later served as professor and head of geology of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne from 1991 to 2005. He was conferred as professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne in 2005 and is a professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide.

He is a member of the academic advisory council for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a member of Australians for Northern Development & Economic Vision (ANDEV), and was an allied expert for the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.

Plimer is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy; an honorary fellow of the Geological Society of London; a member of the Geological Society of Australia, the Royal Society of South Australia, the Royal Society of New South Wales and the Royal Society of Victoria.