Academic Career
Batchelor was educated at Chatham Public School and Chatham High School (Taree, New South Wales) in Taree. He completed an Honours degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of New South Wales in 1983, graduating with 1st class honours and a University Medal. Batchelor completed a PhD in Mathematics at the Australian National University in 1987.
His first postdoctoral research position was at the Lorentz Institute in Leiden. After a time as a postdoctoral research fellow in mathematics at the University of Melbourne he took up an Australian Research Council QEII Fellowship at the Australian National University. He then was awarded two successive ARC Senior Research Fellowships, followed by an ARC Professorial Fellowship in 2003.
Batchelor has held visiting positions at a number of universities, including the University of Oxford, the University of Tokyo and Institut Henri Poincaré.
During his career, Batchelor has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers. He is a Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society, the Australian Institute of Physics and the Institute of Physics (UK).
Batchelor is currently Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. Prior to this he served as Mathematical Physics Section Editor (2007–2008) and as a member of the Editorial Board (2005–2006).
In 2008 Batchelor was awarded an Honorary Professorship at Chongqing University, China. He is a General Council Member of the Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics.
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