Chairs

Dr Paul Brunton from the University Dental Hospital of Manchester will take up a chair in restorative dentistry next month. He specialises in operative dentistry and the application of newer techniques and restorative materials. His main focus is clinical trials carried out in the real world of primary dental care.

Margaret Coutts has been appointed University librarian and keeper of the Brotherton collection. Her areas of interest have been the development of ICT and applications for university libraries, staff development and the introduction of digital collections. She is currently director of information services and librarian at the University of Kent at Canterbury and joins Leeds in February 2005.

Professor Vanalyne Green will take up a chair in fine art in the school of fine art, history of art and cultural studies in January. She is currently a professor in the department of film, video and new media at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her video documentaries use a collage of original and found footage and her work has been exhibited around the world including in Tokyo, Berlin and New York.

Formerly professor of finance at the University of Strathclyde, David Hillier has been appointed to the Ziff Chair in Financial Markets in Leeds University Business School. Professor Hillier has extensive international consultancy experience and his research interests include corporate governance, information dynamics in financial markets, market microstructure and asset pricing. He joins Leeds in January.

Professor Roger Palmer from Glasgow School of Art has been appointed to the chair of fine art in the school of fine art, history of art and cultural studies. He takes up the post in December. Professor Palmer’s work with photography, text and drawing has contributed to international debates on the representation of landscape and its relationship to colonial and post-colonial discourse.

Stewart Ross has taken up the post of director of physical education service, Sport Leeds. He is the former director of the academy of sport, physical activity and well-being at the London South Bank University. He is also chair of the British universities sports association member services committee.

Professor Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé takes up the Leeds University Business School and school of mathematics centenary chair in financial mathematics in January. Previously associate professor at the Institute of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, his research interests include evolutionary and behavioural finance, dynamic economic theory, and the theory of random dynamical systems.