Margaret Sheil

Professor Margaret Sheil AO was appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of QUT in
February 2018, having previously been Provost at The University of Melbourne (2012-2017)
and Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Council (2007-2012).
Professor Sheil has been an academic in chemistry and held a number of senior roles at
the University of Wollongong, including as Dean of Science and Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Research). She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy
of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI),
and the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry (ANZSMS).
Professor Sheil is Chair of the Board of the Queensland Museum Network, Deputy Chair of
the Board of Universities Australia, the lead Vice Chancellor for Research for UA, and a
member of the Australian Space Agency Advisory Group. She was a Director of the
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) from 2015-2019, and
the Advisory Board for Coursera from 2013-2016. She was a member of the Prime
Minister’s Science, Innovation and Engineering Council, the National Research
Infrastructure Council, and the Cooperative Research Centres Committee from 2007-2012.
In 2017 Professor Sheil was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her
distinguished service to science and higher education as an academic and administrator,
through significant contributions to the national research landscape, and to performance
standards. Professor Sheil holds a Bachelor of Science and a PhD in Physical Chemistry
from The University of New South Wales and was presented with the Science and
Technology Alumni Award from UNSW in 2016.