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Acting Chief Defence Scientist
Dr Ian Sare, Acting Chief Defence Scientist, is the head of DSTO.
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- Dr Ian Sare
The Chief Defence Scientist leads some of Australia’s brightest and most innovative scientists, engineers and IT specialists in providing expert, impartial advice and innovative solutions for Defence and other elements of national security.
Dr Ian Sare joined DSTO in February 2004 as Director of the Platforms Sciences Laboratory and Corporate Leader – Air. Dr Sare trained as a metallurgist, gaining a BSc (First Class Honours and University Medal) from the University of NSW and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK). He joined the CSIRO Division of Tribophysics in Melbourne in 1975 where he initiated research into the wear properties of cast ferrous alloys used in mining and minerals processing applications.
In 1984 he became Officer-in-Charge of the Adelaide Laboratory of CSIRO’s Division of Manufacturing Technology and then, in 1995, Chief of Division. Upon merging that Division with the Division of Materials Science and Technology in 1997, he became the first Chief of CSIRO Manufacturing Science and Technology, in Melbourne. He sat on the Boards of three CRCs, X-Ray Technology (XRT) Ltd and the Strategic Industry Research Foundation (SIRF) Ltd. In 2002 Dr Sare was appointed to a newly-created position within CSIRO as Sector Leader - Manufacturing.
Dr Sare's professional activities have led to his election to Fellowships of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He was awarded a Centenary Medal for service to Australian Society in Metallurgical Science and Engineering.