Professor Caroline McMillen

Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice President: Research and Innovation

University of South Australia
MA(Oxon) DPhil (Oxon) MB BChir(Cantab)

Professor Caroline McMillen graduated with a BA (Hons) and Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford University before completing her medical training at the University of Cambridge. In 1992 Caroline was appointed as Professor, Chair and Head of the Department of Physiology at the University of Adelaide where she also served as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1997-1998. In December 2005 Caroline took up the position of Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research and Innovation at the University of South Australia where her role is to develop strategies to ensure continued growth of the University’s research profile and the delivery of its core objectives in research and innovation.

Caroline has served for extended periods as Chair of ARC or NHMRC Grant Review Panels and in 2008 she was also an invited participant in the Australia 2020 Summit and served as Chair of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme Expert Sub Committee on Promoting and Maintaining Good Health. During 2007 and 2008 Professor McMillen was a member of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) Working Group on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders focusing on maternal, and perinatal health which presented its findings and final report to the Prime Minister at a meeting of PMSEIC in March 2008.

Caroline is currently a Director of the Playford Memorial Trust Inc, and ITEK UniSA’s commercialisation company, a Board member of the South Australian Centre for Innovation, the Resources Industry Development Board, the CRC for Automotive Engineering, and the CRC for Rail Innovation, and a member of the Science Advisory Panel of the Australian Science Media Centre.

Professor McMillen has occupied senior leadership roles in higher education, research and innovation for 15 years and is committed to building collaborative partnerships between universities, government, industry and communities that directly contribute to the economic, environmental, social and cultural health of South Australia and Australia.

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