Professor Lawrence Cram

Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President
BSc (Hons), BE (Hons), PhD Sydney

Professor Lawrence Cram is Deputy Vice-Chancellor at The Australian National University. He has broad research and education responsibilities, with a particular focus on undergraduate education, commercialisation, sponsored research and the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.

His career spans more than 30 years of research and teaching in engineering, mathematics, astronomy, physics and computing. Prior to taking up his position at ANU, Professor Cram was Professor of Physics (Astrophysics) at the University of Sydney. He was appointed to this Chair in 1987 from the position of Assistant Chief of the CSIRO Division of Applied Physics. He has been employed as an astronomer in several institutions in the US,  Germany and France.

Professor Cram’s current research activities include the analysis and interpretation of observations of star formations in galaxies, and the development of computer programs to create and investigate radio astronomical images. He has published over 125 scientific papers, and has co-authored a number of books on astronomy and popular science. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, and the Royal Astronomical Society, as well as a member of the American Astronomical Society, the International Astronomical Union and the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Professor Cram has extensive experience in research management and public sector research funding, having worked for three years as Executive Director in the Australian Research Council. He has also been extensively involved in the practice and management of education in universities. Professor Cram has extensive involvement in the successful commercialisation of research, through experience at CSIRO and the University of Sydney as well as ANU. He is currently a non-executive director on six companies involved in the commercialisation of research.

Contact

T:        +61 2 6125 8487
F:        +61 2 6125 5955
E:         DVC@anu.edu.au

Staff

Kitti Whitworth
Executive Assistant
T:        +61 2 6125 8487
E:        Kitti.Whitworth@anu.edu.au  

Louise Osborne
Executive Officer
T:        +61 2 6125 2900
E:         Louise.Osborne@anu.edu.au