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Chief Executive Officer

Professor Margaret Sheil FRACI C Chem

Professor Sheil took up the position of Australian Research Council (ARC) Chief Executive Officer on 17 August 2007.

Before joining the ARC, Professor Sheil held the post of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Wollongong (UOW) for five years, where she was responsible for the whole spectrum of research and development, including commercialisation.

While at UOW, Professor Sheil attracted more than $5 million in external research funding, a large portion of which was awarded to the university from ARC-administered schemes under the Australian Government's National Competitive Grants Program. She has had a long association with the ARC as a member of the Expert Advisory Committee for Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences and the ARC Quality and Scrutiny Committee.

Professor Sheil's research interests encompass the study of biomolecular interactions and applications of mass spectrometry to biological problems. She is a former President of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry and Australian representative to the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation and was an Editor of Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry in 2006-07.

Professor Sheil is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. She is now a member of National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Committee and PMSEIC, The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council and was Chair of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee Deputy/Pro Vice-Chancellors' (Research) Group in 2006 and a member of the RQF reference committee in 2007.

Previous positions held by Professor Sheil include Dean of Science at UOW (2001-02); Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at UOW (1990-1999); Research Fellow in the Research School of Chemistry at The Australian National University (1989-1990); and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Utah, USA (1988-89).

She is a former director of the Cooperative Research Centre for
Smart Internet Technology Pty Ltd and several technology start-up companies. Professor Sheil holds a B.Sc. (Hons) and a PhD in chemistry from The University of New South Wales. She has 85 publications in international journals.

 

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