Anton Middelberg

Professor Middelberg is the Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and International) at The University of Queensland, where he leads key aspects of the university-wide research and internationalization portfolio. He obtained his Bachelor degree (1989) and PhD (1993) from the University of Adelaide and his Master of Arts from Cambridge (2001). After appointment as the youngest lecturer in Engineering at Adelaide University, and a Fulbright Fellowship at UC Berkeley, he accepted a position at Cambridge University, where he was rapidly tenured and promoted twice against quota to become the Reader in Biological Engineering. In this role he reported directly to the university’s General Board and was a member of the Governing Body of Selwyn College and a Fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute. In 2003 he returned to Australia as a Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council. Professor Middelberg was awarded the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Fellowship (one per annum statewide) for his vaccine research. His 2011 seminal paper on new vaccine processing in the leading journal Vaccine saw him invited to be an Associate Editor of that journal. In 2012 he was one of 100 global recipients of a Grand Challenge Exploration award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Professor Middelberg has been named by Engineers Australia as one of the 100 most influential engineers in Australia. He has received a number of awards, including the Brodie and Shedden-Uhde medals of the Institution of Engineers Australia, and has published more than 170 refereed papers at the interface between biology and engineering.