Susanne Schmidt

Professor
The University of Queensland
Adjunct Professor
QAAFI Centre for Horticulture
Affiliated Professorial Research Fellow
The University of the Sunshine Coast

Brisbane, QLD

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  • Mentoring
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Expertise

Biography

I am a scientist and educator working across ecology and agriculture, contributing science and solutions to global challenges in a participatory manner with farmers, regulators and industry: 

1/ the circular nutrient economy: converting wastes to next-generation fertilisers for healthy environments, crops and food.

2/ regenerative agriculture based on ecological principles for ecosystem services, avoiding pollution and producing high quality food.

3/ diverse and climate-adapted crops drawn from the vast range of native Australian plants, produced by Traditional Owners

4/ re-carbonising soils - managing carbon and nutrients stocks with vegetation and soil amendments to combat the rise in greenhouse gases 

Susanne identifies as culturally and linguistically diverse.

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Award

Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Society

Award

Fellow of the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Society

Academic paper

2012

Past, present and future of organic nutrients
Academic paper

2008

Plants can use protein as a nitrogen source without assistance from other organisms.
Academic paper

2017

Evolutionary conservation of a core root microbiome across plant phyla along a tropical soil chronosequence
Media article

2015

High tech fertilisers and innovation have to come to the Great Barrier Reef rescue
Media article

2017

Revolutionising fertliser
Academic paper

2019

Tropical Rainforest Restoration Plantations Are Slow to Restore the Soil Biological and Organic Carbon Characteristics of Old Growth Rainforest