Dr Daniel Southam
Lecturer and Director of First Year Studies
Room: 500.4118
Phone: +61 8 9266 2380
Email: D.Southam@curtin.edu.au
Fields of Interest
Solid state and minerals chemistry: synthesis and characterisation of amorphous materials; materials, minerals and the environment; sustainable materials and minerals processing
Education
2000: BAppSc(Hons), Inorganic Analytical Chemistry, University of Tasmania
2005: PhD, Materials Chemistry, University of Tasmania
Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Chartered Chemist
Biography
1999-2005: Tutor Coordinator, Australian Maritime College
2005-2007: Research Fellow, NRI, Curtin University
2008- : Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry
Teaching
Chemistry 101(Unit Coordinator)
Inorganic Chemistry 201 (Unit Coordinator)
Inorganic Chemistry 202 (Unit Coordinator)
Inorganic Chemistry 301
Selected Publications
- Southam, DC, Lewis, TW, McFarlane, AJ, Borrmann, T, Johnston, JH, ‘Calcium-phosphorus interactions at a nano-structured silicate surface’,J Colloid Interface Sci, 2008. 319(2): 489-497
- Southam, DC; Brent, GF; Felipe, F; Carr, C; Hart, RD; Wright, K. ‘Towards more sustainable minefills – replacement of Ordinary Portland Cement with Geopolymer Cements’, Publications of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2007. 9: 157-164.
- Hart, RD, Lowe, JL, Southam, DC, Perera, DS, Walls, P, Vance, ER, Gourley, T, Wright, K, ‘Aluminosilicate inorganic polymers from waste materials’. Publications of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2006. 3: 93-103.
- Southam, DC, Lewis, TW, McFarlane, AJ, Johnston, JH, ‘Amorphous Calcium Silicate as a Chemisorbent for Phosphate’, Curr Appl Phys, 2004. 4(2-4): 355-8.
