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	Dr. Colin Adam
		•	B. Metall. Eng., University of Queensland (1968)
		•	PhD Metallurgy, University of Queensland (1972)
	Independent Chair
		Phone: +61 (3) 9800 4078 Email: cmadam@bigpond.com
	Research interests
	Solidification behaviour of aluminium alloys, rapid solidification of centrifugally atomized spherical powder alloys (high-temperature structural aluminium alloys and alloy steels), mechanical properties of consolidated powder alloys.
	Biography
	Dr Adam retired from CSIRO in 2001 having acted as Chief Executive, and was responsible for CSIRO's commercial activity. Dr. Adam’s career has included a decade of technology management positions within the US aerospace industry. He returned to Australia in 1987 as Chief of the CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Technology, and was later Director of the Institute of Industrial Technologies. He was appointed a Deputy Chief Executive in 1996, responsible for the Minerals and Energy Divisions.
	He is one of the founding Directors (in 2001) of a Private Equity Fund investing in high technology start-up companies, Principals Funds Management – PFM Cornerstone Fund.
	Dr. Adam has served as a member of the Commonwealth Government’s Industry Research and Development Board and the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council. He was a member of the inaugural Board of the Australian Universities Quality Agency from 2001 to 2003. He serves on the Board of Universal Biosensors Limited, Ausmelt Limited, and the Overseas Council. He has previously been Chairman of TeleIP Ltd., a Director of Memtec Limited and Melbourne IT Ltd, and was Chairman of The Preston Group, a leading avaition scheduling and simulation company started by CSIRO with external venture capital, which was successfully sold to Boeing in September 1999.
	Dr. Adam has a Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering and a PhD in Metallurgy from the University of Queensland. He holds Adjunct Professorships the University of Queensland, and at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
	Publications
	3 books and 50 refereed publications, 12 US Patents, 11 Classified DoD reports relating to above research activities.
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