David Officer

{{Short description|New Zealand organic chemist}}

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| fields = Organic chemistry, materials science

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| alma_mater = Victoria University of Wellington

| thesis_title = Studies of some strained organic molecules: cyclopropa phenanthrenes

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| thesis_year = 1981

| doctoral_advisor = Brian Halton

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David Leslie Officer is a New Zealand organic chemist and materials scientist.

He completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in 1982 under the direction of Professor Brian Halton, before undertaking postdoctoral positions at the Australian National University, and the University of Cologne (as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow). Officer returned to New Zealand and took up his first academic post at Massey University in 1986, rising through the ranks to full professor.[http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/cr0000426 Information sourced from Biography in Chemical Reviews]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 2005, Officer was appointed as a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry{{Cite web |url=http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2005/Press_Releases/04-08-05.html |title=Officer wins Award |access-date=17 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003075946/http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2005/Press_Releases/04-08-05.html |archive-date=3 October 2006 |url-status=dead }} and moved to the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Officer is also currently listed as a professorial fellow with the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute and Department of Chemistry at the University of Wollongong, Australia.{{Cite web |url=http://macdiarmid.ac.nz/researchers/officer.php |title=Researcher Details at the MacDiarmid Institute |access-date=17 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928014917/http://macdiarmid.ac.nz/researchers/officer.php |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.uow.edu.au/science/research/ipri/people/ |title=IPRI Staff Details |access-date=17 August 2007 |archive-date=1 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070901013927/http://www.uow.edu.au/science/research/ipri/people/ |url-status=dead }}