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Scientists appointed to USC executive
Molecular physicist Professor Birgit Lohmann has been appointed the University of the Sunshine Coast’s new Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
Professor Lohmann is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Quality) at the University of Adelaide and will start at USC in early 2011.
She will step into the executive position recently vacated
by Professor Greg Hill who became USC’s Vice-Chancellor in June.
Professor Lohmann has been at the University of Adelaide since 2007 and has been involved in policy development, curriculum renewal, promoting learning and teaching excellence, and guiding quality assurance processes.
She helped that institution become one of the most successful in the country for gaining valuable project grants from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
Professor Lohmann previously worked at Griffith University in Brisbane as Head of the School of Science and Director of the Centre for Quantum Dynamics.
She is internationally known for her research in atomic and molecular physics and has worked as a node manager within the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Antimatter-Matter Studies since 2005.
Professor Lohmann has produced more then 100 journal articles and conference contributions, and has served as a chair and member of scientific committees of many international conferences.
Also starting at USC in early 2011 will be Professor of Chemistry, Roland De Marco, who has accepted an appointment as the University’s first Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research.
Professor De Marco is currently the Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research Strategy and Development) at Curtin University in Western Australia, where he has worked since 1995.
He is an internationally recognised leader in the field of electrochemical sensors and their application in environmental and clinical analysis.
Professor De Marco was previously the Dean of Research at Curtin University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Head of the Department of Applied Chemistry.
In his leadership roles at Curtin University, Professor De Marco helped create a high-performance research culture that delivered many prestigious Australian Research Council fellowships, a top 500 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong index, and a national ranking just outside the top 10 universities in Australia.
His career also has included working as a research scientist with CSIRO Minerals in Melbourne and as a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Tasmania in Launceston.
He has had more than 200 papers and reports published in journals and as conference papers and industrial reports.
— Terry Walsh