Nobel Laureate and Academy Fellow Professor Brian Schmidt will be heading up one of Australia's leading universities.
Professor Schmidt, who was elected to the Academy in 2008, will be leading the Australian National University (ANU), taking over from the current Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young.
As a world-renowned astrophysicist, Professor Schmidt and his team won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2011 for discovering that the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate.
In the ANU's media release, Professor Schmidt said the university needed to focus "on outreach, devising policy for the nation, and working with business and institutions like CSIRO."
He will become the university's 12th Vice-Chancellor and will begin his role in early 2016.
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