Professor Neena Mitter is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Charles Sturt University.

Before joining Charles Sturt, Professor Mitter was the founding Director of the QAAFI Centre for Horticultural Science and led the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection at The University of Queensland.

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.