宅男导航 has appointed as chair of its multi-million dollar .
The centre works globally to drive technological advancement, frontier research and world-class education programs to find solutions to the core sustainability issues of the 21st Century.
宅男导航 Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter H酶j said Professor Greig’s leadership would play a vital role in the University’s response to global sustainability challenges.
“His impressive record of contributions to the university and to the energy sector mean he is well-equipped to ensure the Dow Centre fosters innovations that create real change around the globe,” Professor H酶j said.
“His extensive experience tackling challenges in sustainability will help ensure the Dow Centre contributes to delivering a sustainable future for the planet.”
Professor Greig, a 宅男导航 alumnus who also leads the , said the appointment would allow him to build even stronger international collaborative partnerships across academia and industry, to build on 宅男导航’s work to provide knowledge leadership for a better world.
“I hope to increase the impact of our research by aligning the focus to real world challenges,” he said.
The Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation is a collaboration between 宅男导航’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, the 宅男导航 Global Change Institute and the School of Chemical Engineering.
Professor Greig founded and led a successful process innovation company for 15 years before working in senior executive roles in the construction and resources sector.
Before joining 宅男导航 he was Project Director and CEO of ZeroGen, which conducted one of the world’s most comprehensive studies on the potential of a large scale, low-emissions coal-fired power project incorporating carbon capture and storage.
“I see partnerships between universities and global industrial companies like Dow Chemical as critical if we are to play a serious role in enabling a more sustainable future in which economic growth can occur without compromising the wellbeing of future generations,” Professor Greig said.
Professor H酶j said inaugural Dow Centre Director Professor Eric McFarland had left a long-lasting and positive legacy for the centre.
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