After completing a PhD in Zoology at Melbourne University, he spent two years in Pharmacology Departments in the USA, before coming back to live in a hilly suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. For a long time now, he was a neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy in the School of Medicine at Flinders University. Along the way, he managed to pick up an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In March 2014, he retired from his academic position to spend more time writing poetry and electronic music, produce videos, build a few websites, windsurf, and cook… Nevertheless, he has been awarded Emeritus Professor status at Flinders University. In April Ian Gibbins videopoem dog daze won Best Video Poem at the 2018 Film and Video Poetry Symposium ⇲ in Los Angeles.