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Neena Mitter

DVC Associate (Global Research)

Professor Neena Mitter

DVC Associate (Global Research)

Professor Neena Mitter has recently joined Charles Sturt as Deputy Vice-Chancellor Associate (Global Research).

Before joining Charles Sturt, Professor Mitter was the founding Director of the QAAFI Centre for Horticultural Science and the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformational Research HUB for Sustainable Crop Protection at The University of Queensland (UQ).

She has an outstanding track record of scholastic success in leading world-class interdisciplinary research centres, enabling world-class Excellence in Research Australia outcomes, and winning high-profile awards, fellowships, patents, and gold-standard sources of research income.

Her international partnerships and outreach span multiple geographies, driving strategic, multidisciplinary initiatives for sustainable agriculture and cultivating future leaders. Professor Mitter is also the research lead for BioClay™. BioClay is considered a game-changer for crop protection due to its ability to combat whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), which is responsible for the loss of billions of dollars in agricultural crops around the world.

The role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor Associate (Global Research) is to provide strategic leadership, advice and support to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) in the development of international research partnerships, commercialisation, new sources of international research income, collaborative postgraduate research programs and the improvement of Charles Sturt’s overall international research performance.

This role complements the work of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) who is responsible for the University’s overarching International Strategy – driving innovation in student recruitment, marketing, international collaboration, education partnerships (primarily coursework focused) and the international student experience.

Over the past two years Charles Sturt has made a historic investment in enhancing our research capability in rural health, cyber, food and water security, and regional well-being. The appointment of Professor Neena Mitter is further testimony to Charles Sturt’s commitment to recruit the best and the brightest to help foster world class research and find regional solutions to problems with global reach and impact.