Michael Breadmore
The Power List 2019 – 21-100 (A-Z)
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Michael Breadmore
Professor & Director of the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science, University of Tasmania, Australia.
Career highlight: The commercial release of GreyScan – the world’s first inorganic explosive trace detection system – in late 2018.
Best advice received: Do something hard and important. If it works, it’s brilliant; if it doesn’t, you still get a good paper.
Best part of the job: Waking up every day faced with questions to which there is no answer yet.
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