Mark G. Humphrey graduated and received his Bachelor (Hons, 1982), PhD (1987) and DSc (2003) at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has held positions at Universität Würzburg, Germany (1987-1989), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA (1989-1990), and the University of New England, Australia (1990-1994), before being appointed to Australian National University, Australia. He has been awarded fellowships by the Krupp Foundation (Germany, 1987), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany, 1987), CNRS (France, 1988), Telecom Research Laboratories (1991), the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1997), the Science and Technology Agency (Japan, 2001), the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK, 2002), and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2009), as well as the Gritton Fellowship by the University of Sydney (1990).

The aim of our research is the preparation of new types of potentially useful molecular materials. Understanding how chemical structure can control molecular properties is the key step, and this necessitates coupling chemical synthesis to a range of physical properties studies. Research in the group involves organometallic, organic, coordination complex and polymer synthesis, spectroscopy, various electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical techniques, molecular modelling, electron microscopy and X-ray structural studies, and a wide range of nonlinear optical studies using high-power lasers.