As Group Executive Nuclear Operations, Safety and Security, Miles has responsibility for all nuclear operations, including reactor operations and waste management, high reliability (safety), nuclear security and nuclear safeguards, nuclear stewardship, and ANSTO’s Nuclear-Powered Submarine Working Group.
At ANSTO, Miles has managed the safe, secure and sustainable planning and operation of the organisation’s entire portfolio of Landmark and National Research Infrastructure. He now has responsibility for nuclear stewardship across all ANSTO.
Miles has more than thirty-five years of experience in strategic planning and leadership of science and technology collaborations between government, industry, and universities. He has established multi-node, multi-disciplinary collaborative research infrastructure networks for the characterisation of matter (chemical, mineral, biological) across a broad range of resolution and sensitivity scales.
Miles has a Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. He has extensive industry-based R&D experience in collaboration with universities, national laboratories and government agencies and has completed an Advanced Certificate in Management, Innovation and Technology from MIT and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.