Professor Paulo de Souza.
Edith Cowan University (ECU) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Paulo de Souza as Executive Dean of School of Engineering.
A disrupter and transformational advocate, Professor de Souza joins ECU with a wealth of impactful research outcomes and real-world educational delivery.
Professor de Souza has spent more than 20 years bridging science, industry, and society, with application of engineering to solve unique problems: spanning the critical struggle of our fragile ecosystems, improvement of industrial processes to the discovery of habitable environments on the surface of Mars.
Prior to joining ECU, Professor de Souza was Dean (Research) with Griffith University, Science Director and Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO, Collaborating Scientist with NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program and worked in Industry in South America and Europe.
He co-authors the series of papers identified at the 2004 Breakthrough of the Year by Science Magazine.
Professor de Souza is Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, Graduate from the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and member of the ARC College of Experts.
ECU Vice-Chancellor Professor Steve Chapman said that Professor de Souza is an impressive leader, having transformed industrial, research and academic portfolios.
"Paulo has significant leadership experience, and his expertise uniquely positions him to execute on his ambitious vision for the School of Engineering, and for ECU into the future," Professor Chapman said.
Professor Chapman has thanked Professor Daryoush Habibi for his contribution and dedicated services who has served as the Executive Dean of the School of Engineering since January 2016.
Through Professor Habibi's leadership, the school has developed a strong reputation for teaching and research quality including a top 175 global ranking in engineering in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Professor Habibi has returned to a teaching and research role as Professor in the School of Engineering.
