CIES Director appointed to Australian Research Council (ARC), College of Experts for 2016-2018
CIES Director Professor Brian Uy has been appointed to the ARC College of Experts from 2016-2018 and will serve on the Engineering, Information and Computing Sciences (EIC) Panel.
Members of the ARC College of Experts assess and rank ARC grant applications submitted under the National Competitive Grants Programme, make funding recommendations to the ARC and provide strategic advice to the ARC on emerging disciplines and cross-disciplinary developments. There are currently 170 members on the ARC College of Experts listed by broad discipline grouping:
- Biological Sciences and Biotechnology (BSB)
- Engineering, Information and Computing Sciences (EIC)
- Humanities and Creative Arts (HCA)
- Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences (MPCE)
- Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences (SBE)
This is Brian’s fourth major appointment to ARC research assessment panels spanning a ten year period. He was previously a member of the ARC College of Experts for Engineering and Environmental Sciences from 2007-2009 and served as the Deputy Chair in 2009. He then followed this with a three year term on the Selection Advisory Committee for the Australian Laureate Fellowships program from 2011-2013. Most recently he was a member of the Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) Research Evaluation Committee on Engineering and Environmental Sciences.
For more details of the ARC, please see www.arc.gov.au
