Born: 19 May 1954, Hungary
Died: NA
Country most active: Australia, United States
Also known as: NA
The following was written by Nina Baker and is excerpted from the book From Alchemy to Transport Phenomena: A Global History of Women in Chemical Engineering.
Judy Agnes Raper was born in Budapest but has spent almost her entire life in Australia, gaining her PhD, for work on distillation columns in 1980 from the University of New South Wales, where she went on to become an academic and is noted for transforming the undergraduate engineering programmes there. Since then she has held other senior posts in the USA as well as Australia and has gained numerous national and international awards for her leadership and her work on the characterisation of particulates and their impact on pollution control.
This biography has been shared from The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Judy Raper became the first woman to appointed Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney (1997).
The Judy Raper Award for Leadership is presented annually as one of the University of New South Wales Women in Engineering Awards.
Chronology
1957
Life event – Settled in Australia
1982 – 1985
Career position – Lecturer in chemical engineering, University of Newcastle
1986 – 1994
Career position – Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer), Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Sydney
1990 – 1997
Career position – Regional Editor, Powder Technology
1995 – 1996
Career position – Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Sydney
1997
Career position – Acting Dean of Applied Sciences, University of New South Wales
1997
Award – New South Wales Professional Engineer of the Year, Institution of Engineers, Australia
1997 – 2003
Career position – Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney
2002 – 2003
Career position – President, 4th World Congress on Particle Technology, Sydney
2003 –
Award – Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
2003 – 2006
Career position – Head of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, U.S.A.
2006 – 2008
Career position – Divisional Director, Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems, , National Science Foundation, U.S.A.
2008 – 2015
Career position – Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Wollongong
2012 – 2016
Career position – Board Member, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
2015 –
Career position – Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), University of Wollongong
2017
Award – Chemeca Medal, Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers
2019
Award – Ada Lovelace Medal, Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales