Benjamin Eggleton is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Sydney, where he leads the university's research operations division. His portfolio encompasses research grants and pipeline development, contract management, research performance, and compliance, including oversight of research integrity, ethics, foreign interference, security and clinical trials, and the Horizon Fellowships program.Eggleton is Professor in the School of Physics where he leads an experimental photonics group working on nonlinear optics, photonic integrated circuits and smart sensors. Since 2016 Eggleton has served as founding Co-Director of the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN). He leads the Jericho Smart Sensing Laboratory (JSSL) sponsored by the Royal Australian Air Force. Eggleton is a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS).From 2018 to 2022 Eggleton was the Director of the University of Sydney Nano Institute (Sydney Nano). He was founding Director of CUDOS, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems and served as Director from 2003-2017. Eggleton was founding Director of Sydney's Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), serving as Director from 2009-2018. Eggleton was previously an ARC Laureate Fellow and an ARC Federation Fellow twice. Eggleton obtained the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Sydney. In 1996, he joined the Optical Physics Department at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. In 1998 Eggleton transferred to the Optical Fiber Research Department as a Member of Technical Staff and was promoted to Technical Manager of the Fiber Gratings Group in 2000. He was promoted to Research Director within the Specialty Fiber Business Division of Bell Laboratories, where he was engaged in forward-looking research supporting Lucent Technologies business in optical fiber devices.Eggleton published > 520 journal publication, including in Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Science and Optica and > 200 invited presentations (30,000 citations, h-index of 88 for Webofscience).Eggleton is a Fellow of Optica, IEEE Photonics, SPIE, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and the Australian Academy of Science (AAS). Eggleton was President of the Australian Optical Society (2008-2010) and served on the IEEE Photonics Board of Governors (2015-2017). Eggleton was Editor-in-Chief for Optics Communications (2007-2015). Since 2015 Eggleton has served as Editor-in-Chief for APL Photonics.