Alisa Becker: Associate Director

Dr Alisa Becker is Associate Director with Enterprise (Climate Change and Environmental Science) at the University of Queensland.

Alisa is passionate about unlocking value from research. In her current role, Alisa is responsible for developing large scale industry research initiatives across the University of Queensland within the broad areas of climate change and environment.

Before joining the University of Queensland, she managed CSIRO’s innovation services that include the ON Program, which gives researchers the skills and confidence to take their research to impact and the Collaborative Innovation Program, which helps industry partners uncover commercially deployable solutions to their business-critical challenges.

After obtaining her undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Queensland, Alisa undertook a PhD at The University of Melbourne and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin.

After transitioning out of the lab, she worked for the Royal Society of Chemistry, first as an editor for Energy & Environmental Science and then promoting the role of chemistry in solving wicked challenges around critical energy metals, air pollution, and climate change. She was led the drafting, review, and release of their climate change statement to coincide with COP20.

Alisa is a member of the Steering Committee for Food System Horizons.

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