Gordon Wallace is currently Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute and Executive Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science. His research interests include organic conductors, nanomaterials and electrochemical probe methods of analysis and the use of these in the development of Intelligent Polymer Systems. A current focus involves the use of these tools and materials in developing biocommunications from the molecular to skeletal domains in order to improve human performance via medical Bionics.

Gordon was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2007 and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2003. He was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI).

He received the RACI HG Smith Prize in 2008 and was named as NSW Scientist of the Year (Chemistry Category in the same year). In 2009 he was awarded a Life Time Achievement Award by SPIE in recognition of his sustained contributions to the development of smart materials.

He received the Inaugural Polymer Science and Technology award from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in 1992. He was awarded an ETS Walton Fellowship by Science Foundation Ireland in 2003. He received the RACI Stokes Medal for research in Electrochemistry in 2004.

He completed his undergraduate (1979) and PhD (1983) degrees at Deakin University in Australia. He was awarded a DSc from Deakin University in 2000.

He has published more than 500 refereed publications and a monograph (3rd Edition published in 2009) on Conductive Electroactive Polymers: Intelligent Polymer Systems. He has supervised 55 PhD students to completion.