Chris Brink
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Chris Brink is the former Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch, South Africa, a post he took up in January 2002. As Vice-Chancellor, he was the academic and managerial head of the University. He was the Chair of Senate, a member of the Council of the University, and had personal charge of the portfolios of strategic planning and transformation. In 2006, the Newcastle University announced that Brink will succeed its current vice-chancellor, Prof. Christopher Edwards, on 1st August 2007 [1]. As of 2007, Russel Botman succeeded Brink as Rector and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Stellenbosch [2].
Before his involvement with Stellenbosch University, he was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Wollongong in Australia (1999–2001). Before that, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, where he also headed a research unit called the Laboratory for Formal Aspects of Computer Science.
During the transition period from apartheid in South Africa, he served as Coordinator of Strategic Planning at the University of Cape Town. Before that, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University, where he worked on a 5-year research programme known as the Automated Reasoning Project.
[edit] Contributions to Mathematics
Brink pioneered the study of Boolean modules over relation algebras, which together with the latter provide a modern formalization of Peirce's logic of relatives in terms of universal algebra.
