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Professor Andrew Parfitt is the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Technology Sydney. He assumed the role in November 2021 after serving as Provost and Senior Vice-President at UTS from February 2017. Prior to joining UTS, he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Newcastle from 2012 to 2016. He has also held senior leadership positions at the University of South Australia, including as Director of the Institute for Telecommunications Research, and at the CSIRO as General Manager of Space Programs and CEO of the CRC for Satellite Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked with the Defence Science and Technology Group.
Professor Parfitt holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Adelaide, awarded in 1992. His doctoral thesis focused on substrate supported metal strip antennas for monolithically fabricated millimetre wavelength arrays. His research specializations include antennas and radio systems, with contributions to satellite communications, radio astronomy technologies, and space engineering. He has published more than 100 technical papers in refereed conferences and journals. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, a Fellow of Engineers Australia, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and has served on numerous government, professional, and industry boards, including as Chair of the Universities Admissions Centre from 2013 to 2019.
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