Professor Aidan Byrne

Professor Aidan Byrne commenced as the Provost and Senior Vice-President of The University of Queensland on 4 October 2016. Prior to this appointment Professor Byrne was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Australian Research Council from July 2012. Previously he was the Dean of Science and the Director of the Australian National University (ANU) College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Professor Byrne completed a BSc and MSc degrees at the University of Auckland before commencing a PhD degree at the ANU in 1981. Following the completion of his degree at the Department of Nuclear Physics he held positions with the University of Melbourne and spent over two years in Bonn, Germany as a von Humboldt fellow. He returned to the ANU in 1989 as a Research Fellow and in 1991 commenced a joint appointment between the Department of Physics, in the Faculty of Science and the Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering. He was Head of the Department of Physics from 2003 to 2007.