Roger Schnagl
After leaving Balwyn High School I studied for a B.Sc. at Melbourne University. I was never a great student academically (lack of application then?) but I did succed when I got into the laboratory and research. I completed my B.Sc(Hons) and PhD in the Department of Microbiology at Melbourne Uni. Research areas for the PhD were on arthropod-borne viruses and then the previously unknown human rotavirus, later to be shown to be the major cause of infantile diarrhoea in the world. After completing the PhD I worked as a post doctoral research fellow in the Department of Microbiology at Melbourne Uni. on the characterisation of human rotavirus and the potential importance of this virus in Aboriginal health in Western Australia and then Central Australia. I met my wife Heather, currently the principal of Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School, while she was doing her PhD. in immunology in a laboratory down the passage from me in the Microbiology Department.
In 1979 I took up a position as lecturer and electron microscopist in medical microbiology in the Department of Microbiology at La Trobe University. Later became deputy head and then head of department. Research areas included the characterisation and epidemiology (spread), especially in Aboriginal communities, of human rotavirus as well as of a number of other human enteric viruses.
I changed to part time in 2003 to complete a Diploma of Financial Planning (share investing had long been a hobby) and fully retired from the University in 2004. In 2005 I took up a position as a financial planner with a small firm and then a larger one in Camberwell and then in the Melbourne CBD. In 2010 I set up my own small practice as a financial adviser which I now run.
I played competition squash while at and for Balwyn High and am still playing competition squash, although now at a much lower level.
In 1979 I took up a position as lecturer and electron microscopist in medical microbiology in the Department of Microbiology at La Trobe University. Later became deputy head and then head of department. Research areas included the characterisation and epidemiology (spread), especially in Aboriginal communities, of human rotavirus as well as of a number of other human enteric viruses.
I changed to part time in 2003 to complete a Diploma of Financial Planning (share investing had long been a hobby) and fully retired from the University in 2004. In 2005 I took up a position as a financial planner with a small firm and then a larger one in Camberwell and then in the Melbourne CBD. In 2010 I set up my own small practice as a financial adviser which I now run.
I played competition squash while at and for Balwyn High and am still playing competition squash, although now at a much lower level.
