Chris Brink
| Professor Chris Brink | |
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| Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University |
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| In office July 2007 – Incumbent |
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| Preceded by | Professor Christopher Edwards |
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| Born | 31 January 1951 |
| Website | ncl |
Chris Brink (born 31 January 1951) is the Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University.
Career
After graduating with a degree in maths and computer science from Rand Afrikaans University, Brink undertook post-graduate study at Rhodes University and the University of Cambridge.[1] He became Professor and Head of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in 1995, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Wollongong in 1999 and Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University in 2002 before being appointed Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University in 2007.[2]
In the 1980s Chris Brink was a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University.[3] In 1996 The Foundation for Research Development in South Africa rated Chris Brink in category A.[4] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa,[5] a former President of the South African Mathematical Society, a Founder Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa[6] and a former chair of the Advisory Board of the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences.[7]
He chaired the Student Policy Network[8] (part of Universities UK) and the N8 Research Partnership, a group of eight research-intensive universities in the North of England.[9][10] Nationally he has served on the Board of the Equality Challenge Unit (including two years as a Co-Chair),[11] the Board of the Quality Assurance Agency (and its Advisory Committee on Degree-Awarding Powers),[12] and the Advisory Committee on Leadership, Governance and Management of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.[13]
Work in mathematics
Chris Brink developed the study of Boolean modules over relation algebras.[14] He focused on formal aspects of computer science with emphasis on program semantics[15] and Popper's concept of verisimilitude and on the universal-algebraic concept of power structures.[16]
References
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| Preceded by | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2007– |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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- South African mathematicians
- South African academics
- South African educators
- Afrikaner people
- South African people of Dutch descent
- White South African people
- University of Cape Town academics
- Living people
- 1951 births
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- University of Wollongong faculty
- Vice-Chancellors of Newcastle University
