Professor Max Lu (逯高清)
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Professor Max Lu (逯高清) AO, FAA, FTSE, DL, FIChemE, FRSC President and Vice-Chancellor University of Surrey Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 1483 68 9249 Address: Room 13 SE 08 University of Surrey Guildford Surrey, UK GU2 7JP Professor Max Lu has been President and Vice-Chancellor of University of Surrey since April 2016. Previously he was Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has been appointed to the Boards of National Physical Laboratory, Universities UK, Leadership Council of the National Centre for Universities and Business and as Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey. He is also a patron of Transform Housing. Professor Lu lectured at Nanyang Technological University from 1991 to 1994, and had held academic and leadership positions at the University of Queensland from 1994 to 2016, rising from senior lecturer to chair professor. He founded the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials and served as its inaugural director for 8 years. He was awarded the Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellowship twice, respectively, in 2003 and 2008. As a Thomson Reuters double Highly Cited Researcher in both Materials Science and Chemistry, he has published over 500 journal papers on nanomaterials (h=107 and over 44,000 citations @Scopus). He is co-inventor of more than 20 granted international patents. He has been honoured with numerous awards including Orica Award, RK Murphy Medal, Le Fevre Prize, ExxonMobil Award, China International Science and Technology Award, Japan Chemical Society Lecture Award, Chemeca Medal, and P.V. Danckwerts Lecture. He was also recently honoured with a Medal of the Order of Australia (Officer in the General Division) for his distinguished service to education and international research in the field of materials chemistry and nanotechnology, to engineering, and to Australia-China relations. Professor Lu has served on many government committees and advisory boards including those under the Australian Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, ARC College of Experts, Australian Synchrotron, Stem Cells Australia. He is Fellow of IChemE, Royal Society of Chemistry, Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and World Academy of Science. Professor Richard A. Williams OBE, FREng, FTSE, FIChemE, FIMMM, CEng, CSci Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heriot-Watt University Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 131 451 3360 Address: George Heriot Wing Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, EH14 4AS Professor Richard A. Williams is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University. His background is an academic and entrepreneur in mineral engineering, energy storage systems and environmental technologies. He is a graduate of Imperial College (BSc (Eng), PhD) and has held posts at University of Manchester (UMIST), Exeter (Camborne School of Mines), and as Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leeds (2005-2011) and University of Birmingham (2011-2015). He has founded several innovation based business. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (Australia) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has worked extensively in establishing new educational and research collaborations in Middle East, Africa, Singapore, Malaysia and China. He is a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), Tianjin University of Finance & Economics and at Southeast University (Nanjing). He is a trustee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, an Advisory Board member of the Lloyds Register Foundation, Lloyds Register 100A1 Ambassador, a Non-Executive Board Director of the British Geological Survey, a member of the Converge Challenge Strategic Advisory Board and Chair of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise. Professor Paul Boyle CBE FBA FRSE AcSS FRSGS Vice-Chancellor Swansea University Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 1792 295154 Address: Swansea University Singleton Park Swansea, SA2 8PP Professor Paul Boyle took up the post of Vice-Chancellor Elect at Swansea University from 1 April 2019. Previously he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, having been appointed in September 2014; Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK’s largest funding agency for social science research; the International Champion of Research Councils UK, with responsibility for international strategy on behalf of all seven UK research councils; and President of Science Europe, representing over 50 European funding agencies. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Royal Geographical Society of Scotland. Before joining the ESRC, he was Head of the School of Geography and Geosciences at the University of St Andrews, publishing widely in Demography and Epidemiology. He was Director of the ESRC Longitudinal Studies Centre – Scotland, Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change, and Co-Investigator on the Wellcome Trust Scottish Health Informatics Programme. Scottish Health Informatics Programme. He was Founding Director of the Social Dimensions of Health Institute, a joint collaboration between the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews. Professor Boyle is Chair of the Scottish Science Advisory Council, which is Scotland’s highest level science advisory body; a Board Member of Universities UK, who provide leadership and support to executive heads of 133 UK University institutions as well as Chair of their Research Policy Network; and a Council Member and Trustee of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, which has over 500 member institutions in 37 Commonwealth countries. In April 2017 Professor Boyle was elected as a Board member of the European Universities Association and has subsequently become Vice-President. Paul is an ‘impact champion’ for the United Nations HeForShe global solidarity movement for gender equality and the Advisory Board of Sporting Equals, promoting ethnic diversity in sport and physical activity. Paul is married with four children. He enjoys running, swimming, cycling and spending time at the coast - and he regrets giving up regular football. Professor Jenny Higham Principal St George’s University of London Email: [email protected] Address: St George's, University of London Cranmer Terrace London, SW17 0RE Professor Higham has held a number of leadership roles in academia, is a consultant gynaecologist and has research interests in reproductive medicine and medical education. She is also the first female Chair of the Medical School Council, the representative body for UK medical schools, where she has been actively involved in academic medical policy for a number of years. In May 2018 Professor Higham was awarded fellowship (FRCP) of the Royal College of Physicians for distinguishing herself in the practice of medicine. Professor Higham was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Clinical specialism She quickly specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, obtaining Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) in 1992 and subsequently became a Fellow (FRCOG) in 2005. She has maintained clinical roles throughout her career and continues to practice as a consultant gynaecologist. Academic career Prior to her appointment at St George's, Professor Higham worked at Imperial College London's Faculty of Medicine for 19 years, where she held a number of senior positions including Vice Dean for Institutional Affairs and Director of Education (2009-2015) and Head of Undergraduate Medicine (2006-2009). She was instrumental in establishing the Lee Kong Chian (LKC) School of Medicine in Singapore, a joint Medical School by Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University, and served as the new medical school's Senior Vice Dean from 2013 to 2015. She remains a visiting professor at LKC and oversees the distribution of the “Jenny Higham Award”. She has received a number of awards in the past five years for outstanding leadership, teaching excellence and the national Women of the Future Mentor of the Year in 2011. She continues to mentor and lecture nationally and internationally on Leadership. Earlier in her career, she held the post of Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St Mary's (now Imperial College Healthcare Trust). Here, she made significant contributions to the amalgamation of the curricula from St Mary's, Charing Cross and Westminster medical schools on their merger to form the new medical school at Imperial College London. Professor Jianguo Lin (林建国) FREng (2013) Professor in Mechanics of Materials Division Imperial College London Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7594 7082 Address: Room 524, City and Guilds Building Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London, SW7 2AZ EDUCATION • Xinjiang Shihezi University (1978 – 1982). BEng in Dept. of Mech. Eng., 1982. • Taiyuan University of Technology (1982 – 1985). MEng in Dept. of Mech. Eng., 1985. • University of Sheffield (1988 - 1991). PhD in Dept. of Mech. Eng., 1991. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES: • Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) • Fellow of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE, CEng) • Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) CURRENT POST • Professor in Metal Forming (April 2008 – present).