Campbell Thomson is the Director of the Office of Research Enterprise at The University of Western Australia.
He has a PhD in Agricultural Science (1987) and spent eight years working in the area of physiological adaptation of crop species to environmental stress in laboratories in Germany, England and Australia. He has also worked in the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry as a pasture ecophysiologist.
In 1997 Dr Thomson commenced in the position of Director of Research Services at UWA, a position which he has held for 20 years and has now grown to include the areas of innovation and commercialisation. He currently serves on a number of not-for-profit company and joint venture boards, including the iVEC Supercomputing Facility and the Western Australian Animal Resources Authority.
Dr Thomson was President of the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) from November 2004 until August 2006, and is committed to continuing the development of the profession of research management. He was appointed to the ARMS Accreditation Council in 2013.
- Company:The University of Western Australia
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Research Impact: What is it and why is it important?
Research Impact: What is it and why is it important?