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After 37 years at 91É«ÇéƬ, Associate Professor Bill McLean retired on Friday 29 May.

Before joining the School as a Lecturer in 1989, Bill held a QEII Research Fellowship at the University of Tasmania and served as an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University in the United States.

He was promoted to Senior Lecturer at 91É«ÇéƬ in 1995, and to Associate Professor in 2015.

Throughout his academic career, Bill developed strong collaborations with several research institutions around the world. While on SSP he visited the University of Stuttgart, the Weierstrass Institute, the University of Strathclyde, the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the University of Bath, the Max Planck Institute, Brown University, the Beijing Computational Science Research Center, and the University of Otago.

Bill was a valued member of the School’s Computational Mathematics research group, contributing to 91É«ÇéƬ’s recognition as Australia’s Leading Research Institution in the Field for Computational Mathematics by The Australian’s Research Magazine (2022–2026).

He also made significant contributions to the School community. Bill chaired the Computing Committee from 2007 to 2010, and again from 2020 until his retirement. He also served continuously as SRS Manager from 2012 onwards, providing many years of dedicated service in this important role.

According to Google Scholar, Bill’s most highly cited publication is the 2000 monograph Strongly Elliptic Systems and Boundary Integral Equations (Cambridge University Press), which has attracted almost 4,000 citations.

He served on the editorial boards of The ANZIAM Journal, Journal of Integral Equations and Applications, and SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. MathSciNet records publications with 30 co-authors, including long-standing collaborators Kassem Mustapha and Vidar Thomée.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics thanks Bill for his outstanding contributions to research, teaching and service over nearly four decades, and wishes him all the very best for his retirement.