Maloney, John Edgar

John Maloney was born in 1937. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1956 with a Bachelor of Science and from the University of NSW in 1961 with a Master of Science. He completed a Ph.D at the University of Sydney in 1965. In 1972 he received a fellowship from the Australian Institute of Physics. He worked as a research scientist at CSIRO, Aeronautical Research Laboratories, and Phillips Electrical Industries. He held fellowships at the University of Sydney, University of London, NASA Life Sciences Research Laboratories and Stanford University. He lectured at the University of Melbourne (1969). In 1973 he was senior physiologist and then head of the Developmental Biology Research Unit at the Baker Medical Research Institute. From 1975-1984 he was Director of the Centre for Early Human Development at Monash. From 1984-88 he held appointments at the University of Calgary. He was Vice-Chancellor of Curtin University from 1988-1997. In 1997 he was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Public Affairs) at Monash. He resigned in 1999.