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Dr Alan Finkel is an engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist and has served as Chancellor of Monash University since January 2008.
Dr Finkel received his Bachelor of Engineering in 1976 and Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Monash University in 1981, following which he served for two years as a neuroscience research fellow at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, located at the Australian National University.
In addition to his role as Chancellor, Dr Finkel is also the Chief Techology Officer of Better Place Australia, a company that will provide clean energy to run Australia's future fleet of electric cars.
Previously, for twenty years Dr Finkel ran Axon Instruments, an American company that made electronic instruments used by pharmaceutical companies in the discovery of new medicines.
Between running Axon Instruments and joining Better Place Australia, Dr Finkel established two magazines. The first, Cosmos magazine, promotes science awareness and the second, G magazine, promotes environmental sustainability.
Dr Finkel has a passionate interest in education. He established the Australian Course in Advanced Neuroscience to provide advanced training to young scientists. He also established a secondary school science program named STELR that is currently running in nearly 200 secondary schools around Australia.
Dr Finkel currently serves as the Chairman of the Australian Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics, a research consortium that is preparing to analyse the data from the world's largest radio telecope that will be built by the end of this decade.
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