Chris Brink

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Professor Chris Brink
Vice-Chancellor of
Newcastle University
In office
July 2007 – Incumbent
Preceded by Professor Christopher Edwards
Personal details
Born (1951-01-31) 31 January 1951 (age 74)
Website ncl.ac.uk/executive/board/members/chris-brink.htm

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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Academic offices
Preceded by Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2007–		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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