Professor Mark Hoffman
Dean, UNSW Engineering

Prior to his appointment as the Dean of UNSW's Faculty of Engineering, Professor Mark Hoffman was the University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) and also held positions of Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Science and Head of its School for Materials Science and Engineering for six years.

Throughout his career, Mark has maintained high levels of research productivity. He is recognised as an international leader in the field of structural integrity of materials, with a particular focus on cyclic fatigue. Over the past eight years he’s focused on piezoelectric ceramics, and was recently awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant to investigate lead-free alternatives.

Mark’s research and academic career has taken him around the world – two years as a visiting scientist in the USA and Tokyo, time as a researcher in India and two stints in Germany as a Research Associate, and then Humboldt Fellow. His international reputation led him to his appointment as Director to the Board of the International Congress on Fracture, a premier international body for scientists and engineers involved with the mechanics and mechanisms of fracture, fatigue and strength of materials.