Professor Pankhurst is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) and Provost Gold Coast at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.  He has responsibility for the University’s research agenda including the Higher Degree Research profile, research commercialisation, and the sustainability agenda for the University.  In his role as Provost of the Gold Campus he oversees operation and development of the University’s biggest campus. Previous to this appointment he was Pro Vice Chancellor (Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology), having joined Griffith in September 2006 from James Cook University, Townsville,  Australia, where he had held the position of Pro Vice Chancellor of Science, Engineering and Information Technology from early 2004. Professor Pankhurst has a PhD and DSc in Zoology from the University of Bristol, spent three years at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, and has worked with New Zealand Fisheries Research Centre in Wellington New Zealand, and the Leigh Marine Laboratory of the University of Auckland, New Zealand pursuing his interests in fish reproductive biology.  In early 1994, he took up a position of Associate Professor in the School of Aquaculture at the University of Tasmania, was awarded a Personal Chair in 1996 and then was Head of School from 1998 to 2003.