Areas of responsibility

As PVCRI, Professor Bonnington is responsible for the strategic leadership of UQ’s research infrastructure – ensuring the effective operation, development, and future funding of the University’s world-class research infrastructure capabilities.

Biography

Professor Paul Bonnington joined UQ in 2022 as Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Infrastructure).

Paul has decades of experience within research infrastructure in the tertiary sector, providing researchers with access to major computing, software, and analytics capability.  

Prior to joining, Paul was Director of eResearch at Monash University. Paul led a multi-disciplinary centre of over 50 professionals in eResearch, data and computational, providing expertise in computing, visualisation and data capabilities for numerous research areas.

Under Paul's direction, the Monash eResearch Centre hosted federally-funded national eResearch infrastructure worth more than $27 million, for specialised high-performance computing, research cloud services and data storage and data management, underpinning the data-centric research of over 4,000 researchers. He also led numerous state and national research infrastructure initiatives while at Monash.

At the University of Auckland, Paul established New Zealand's first eResearch program.

Paul’s major research interests lie in graph-theory, medical AI, and developing advanced computational solutions to combinatorial problems.
Paul has also served on numerous state and national boards in the research and research infrastructure areas, including the current Australian Earth-System Simulator National Research Infrastructure (ACCESS-NRI) Board.
 

 

Professor Paul Bonnington
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure)
B.Sc(Hons), Ph.D. Massey, FICA

  +61 (7) 336 53609
  pvcri@research.uq.edu.au

Room 473, Level 4
Global Change Institute (Building 20)
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia

 
 

Ms Sue Weir
Executive Assistant

  + 61 (7) 336 53609
  pvcri@research.uq.edu.au