Southern Cross U announces three senior appointments for July;

Nicholas Ashbolt will become dean of environment, science and engineering. Professor Ashbolt joins from the University of Alberta – he was previously at UNSW.

Yang Liu, also from Uni Alberta, will take up a one-year research professorship in black water.

Peter Wilson moves from the University of Tasmania to work in the VC’s office, where he will work on SCU’s Japan Strategy.