Dr Alan Finkel AO
Chancellor of Monash University; President of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering; co-founder and Chairman of Cosmos Magazine; Chairman of the Australian Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics; Executive Chairman of Stile Education
Dr Alan Finkel AO FTSE FIE Aust is Chancellor of Monash University and President of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is co-founder and Chairman of Cosmos Magazine, the chairman of the Australian Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics and the Executive Chairman of Stile Education.
Alan was awarded his PhD in electrical engineering from Monash University and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in neuroscience at the Australian National University. In 1983 he founded Axon Instruments, a California-based, ASX-listed company that made precision scientific instruments used at pharmaceutical companies and universities for the discovery of new medicines.
Subsequent to Axon being acquired, since 2006 Alan has enjoyed a varied business career that includes property development and a period in electric vehicle charge network provision.
Alan is passionate about educating the next generation. He established the Australian Course in Advanced Neuroscience to provide advanced training to early-career scientists and he leads a secondary school science program named STELR that is currently running in nearly 400 secondary schools around Australia.