Don Melrose is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney’s School of Physics and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Don has also held academic positions at the University of Sussex, Yeshiva University in New York, the University of Maryland, and the Australian National University. He received a D.Phil in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford in 1965, was Rhodes Scholar for Tasmania for 1962, and has received multiple awards and honours in his career.
His fields of interest include plasma astrophysics and quantum electrodynamics.
As of early 2017 his publications include seven books, nine chapters in books, 264 journal articles, 127 published conference papers, and various other minor publications.