Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Professor George Lunt, BSc, PhD
Responsibilities
 As
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor George Lunt has the general responsibility
for deputizing for the Vice-Chancellor as and when necessary. Professor
Lunt also has a number of specific responsibilities, principal among which
are strategic and corporate planning, including the preparation, implementation
and monitoring of the University's 5-year plan in conjunction with the
Director of Finance; and the long- term management and development of
the University's estate, including space management, in conjunction with
the Director of Estates.
Biography
Professor Lunt has been Deputy Vice-Chancellor since July 1996. He was
educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BSc in Biochemistry
and gained a PhD with a thesis on Physiological Chemistry. This was followed
by a Research Fellowship in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Birmingham
during 1967-1968; a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in the Faculty
of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina during 1968-1970;
and a SERC Research Fellowship back at the University of Birmingham during
1970-1971. During the period 1970-1973 he also held a series of EMBO Short
Term Fellowships at the Institute Pasteur, Paris and in 1971 joined the
University of Bath as a lecturer in Biochemistry.
He was promoted to Senior Lecturer
in 1977, Reader in Neurochemistry in1979 and awarded a Personal Chair
in Neuroscience in 1987. He was Head of the School of Biological Sciences
between 1988 and 1993, and became Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) in 1993,
a post he held until 1996.
From 1993 until 2001 he was the Chief
Editor of the Journal of Neurochemistry. Since 1995, he has been Honorary
Visiting Professor in Biochemistry at the Universidad del Sur, Bahia Blanca,
Argentina and since 1999 has been an Honorary Distinguished Investigator
of the Instituto Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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