Current as of 31/05/2023

Emeritus Professor Michael Brisk is a chemical engineering graduate from the University of Sydney with a PhD from the same university.

In the early 1960s he lectured in chemical engineering at Sydney, returning there in the 1971 as a senior lecturer, after working in process control and reaction engineering with ICI in the UK for six years.

He joined ICI Australia in 1983, managing applied research in Sydney, before transferring to ICI Australia Engineering in Melbourne in 1988 to establish the Advanced Process Control Group in ICI.

Later, as International Technology Leader in advanced process control for the ICI Group worldwide, he led the development of the Group’s process control strategy, working with ICI engineers in the UK, South Africa and the Asia Pacific region.

He joined Monash University from industry as Dean of Engineering in 1995, and retired from that position at the end of 2002. He chaired the Australian Council of Engineering Deans from 1997 to 1999.

In semi-retirement he taught part-time in Chemical Engineering at Monash, and undertook extensive consulting in Process Control in the minerals processing industry. He was the Honorary Chair of the Accreditation Board of Engineers Australia for four years until 2007, and then a part-time Accreditation Visit Manager for Engineers Australia until 2015.

In 1994 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. In 2004 he was awarded the CHEMECA Medal by the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers for "outstanding service and contribution to Chemical Engineering".

Dr Brisk, with a 30 year career divided equally between academia and industry, is internationally recognised for his application of advanced process control to chemical processes, and his continuing contribution to the development of Process Control in the Chemical Engineering profession.

An Engineering Associate with ICI Australia Engineering, he is the International Technology Leader for the development of ICI's Process Control strategy worldwide, which is achieving benefits of tens of million dollars a year for ICI Australia and the ICI Group.