Clive Baldock

Professor Clive Baldock (born 1962) is a British-born Australian academic. He graduated from the University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom in 1987 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics and was subsequently employed as a trainee medical physicist at Guy’s Hospital, London while studying for his M.Sc. in Radiation Physics at St Bartholomew’s Medical College, University of London. He subsequently worked in a number of UK hospitals providing scientific support to clinical nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services. His main research interests were in the field of gel dosimetry for improved three-dimensional radiotherapy (radiation therapy) dosimetry in cancer therapy for which he received his Ph.D. from Kings College, University of London. He moved to Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia in 1997 and subsequently worked at the University of Sydney from 2003 to 2012 as Director of the Institute of Medical Physics and then as Professor and Head of the School of Physics. In 2010, he completed a Master of Tertiary Education Management through the LH Martin Institute at the University of Melbourne. Until January 2014 he was Professor and Executive Dean of Science at Macquarie University. In November 2014 he joined the University of Tasmania as Professor and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology. From March 2015, he was Dean (Acting). His research interests continue to be in the fields of gel dosimetry, radiation therapy, dosimetry, and medical imaging in which he has published over 140 research journal papers. He has been awarded Fellowships of the Australian Institute of Physics, the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine, the Institute of Physics (UK) and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (UK).

Selected Publications