John Spencer
Professor - Chemistry
School of Chemical and Physical Sciences
Profile
John Spencer retired from a full-time academic role in 2019, having joined Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington in 1996 as Professor of Chemistry. He obtained a PhD from the University of Otago in 1971 and subsequently worked at the Universities of Bristol and Salford in the UK. His research field is inorganic/organometallic chemistry with current interest in the synthesis and properties of transition metal hydrides.