Chris Brink
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Chris Brink is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom. From 2002-2007 he was the Vice-chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.
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.
