David George Lloyd | |
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5th Vice Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia | |
Assumed office 2013 | |
Chancellor | Ian Gould Jim McDowell Pauline Carr |
Preceded by | Peter Høj |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 April 1974 Dublin,Ireland |
Occupation | Vice Chancellor and President,University of South Australia |
David Lloyd is a Dublin-born and educated university executive and academic. His academic background was that of a chemist,specialising in computer aided drug design. He serves as vice chancellor and president of the University of South Australia;
He is the chair of Universities Australia and the immediate past Chair of the Committee for Adelaide. Lloyd was also a past member of South Australia's Economic Development Board. [1]
After graduating from Dublin City University with a PhD in Medicinal Organic Chemistry,Lloyd worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Trinity College Dublin and later in the pharmaceutical industry for De Novo Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge.
He returned to academia in 2004 to Trinity College Dublin where he was a appointed as the Hitachi Lecturer in Advanced Computing. A specialist in computer-aided drug design,he led the commercialisation and patenting of research developed in his laboratory,Trinity's Molecular Design Group.
In 2007,he was appointed Dean and Vice President of Research,before becoming Bursar and Director of Strategic Innovation at Trinity College Dublin .
Lloyd was appointed as the inaugural Chair of the Irish Research Council.
He moved to Adelaide to take up the position of Vice Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia in 2013 at 38 years old,becoming Australia's youngest vice chancellor. [2] [3]
He was appointed to the Economic Development Board of South Australia in 2014 and was also appointed Chair of the Australian Technology Network,a group of technology-focused Australian universities.
In 2019,Lloyd was appointed Chair of the Committee for Adelaide.
In 2015,his contract at the University of South Australia was extended to 2022,it was later extended to 2027.
Lloyd has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Chemistry and a PhD in Medicinal Organic Chemistry from Dublin City University. He additionally holds an MA (j.o.) from Trinity College Dublin,an honorary Professorship from Tianjin University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Chartered Chemist.
A personal friend of the late Sir Terry Pratchett,he holds an Honorary Doctorate from the author's fictional Unseen University and has written about Pratchett's life and work in articles published by The Conversation. [4]
In 2019,Lloyd was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE). [5]
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