Simon Ringer

Professor Simon Ringer is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure) in the office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). He is responsible for strategy, policy and advice relating to research infrastructure, technology and services, including access to major national and international research facilities and leadership of the University’s Core Research Facilities. 

Professor Ringer has held various leadership roles at Sydney including as centre director of the Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis, as an inaugural MDI Director with AINST (now Sydney Nano), and as Director of Core Research Facilities.  

He is an internationally renowned physical metallurgist, having led ground-breaking atomic-scale materials design for next-generation high-strength structural steels, semiconducting materials for nano-electronics, and new light-weight alloys that can dramatically offset our particulate and CO2 emissions. Several examples of his fundamental materials science research have been translated into industrial materials engineering practice.