The RACI Polymer Division is delighted to announce that the 2025 Bruce Guise award has been awarded to Dr Tim Davey of Dulux Australia.

The Guise award is awarded to an Australian or New Zealand based scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to industrial research in polymer science over the course of their career. A brief biography of Tim is provided below, and Tim will receive his award at the upcoming 39th Australasian Polymer Symposium in Canberra, in December 2025.

Congratulations Tim!

Tim Davey joined Dulux in 2001 as a research chemist and has held a variety of technical roles within the organisation since that time, primarily focused on polymer research. He currently works within the Research & Innovation team developing new latex binders for waterborne coatings, as well as managing the Analytical team.

Tim is originally from Wellington, New Zealand, where he completed a BSc (Hons) in chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington, followed by a PhD on novel bolaform surfactants at the University of Otago. He undertook a post-doc with Raoul Zana at the CNRS in Strasbourg, France, working on characterising the solution behaviour of some industrial gemini surfactants. He then completed a second post-doc with Greg Warr at the University of Sydney, focused on the adsorption of surfactant mixtures at interfaces, along with the synthesis and characterisation of novel gemini surfactants (in collaboration with Dulux and Huntsman Surfactants).