About
The Institute for Future Environments brings together researchers, industry and government to develop solutions for real-world challenges.
Our institute
QUT's Institute for Future Environments is a collaborative research and innovation institute that brings together researchers, students and partners to create and exchange knowledge that makes our world more sustainable, secure and resilient.
Real-world research
Real-world
research
research
Our research creates real-world solutions to today's and tomorrow's challenges in agriculture and the bioeconomy, clean energy, waste technologies and practices and the protection and conservation of the environment.
Explore our researchMeet our leaders
Professor Kerrie Wilson
Executive Director, Institute for Future Environments
"By galvanising the incredible interdisciplinary expertise across QUT and connecting that with external partners, we have become an exemplar of science for society with society."
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Professor Jennifer Firn
Director, Centre for the Environment
"I am passionately committed to developing a better understanding of how the loss of native biodiversity impacts on ecosystems and subsequently finding better ways to restore biodiversity and build more resilient landscapes."
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Professor Ian Mackinnon
Director, Centre for Clean Energy Technologies and Practices
"For future generations to come we really need to have visionary and committed indiviuals now, within this place and in the future, and train our individuals and students to become visionary and committed and to, of course, innovate exponentially. "
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Professor Leonie Barner
Director, Centre for a Waste-Free World
"My research brings together transdisciplinary researchers, industry and government to discover and design more efficient and sustainable materials for diverse applications."
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Professor Sagadevan Mundree
Director, Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy
"We look forward to advancing the needs of Australian farmers by developing crops and traits that will help maintain our competitive edge in the global arena."
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News
Tools into teammates: Australian made automated military vehicle capability with Rheinmetall Defence Australia
QUT is leading major defence projects as part of Rheinmetall’s new research and technology program to develop advanced Australian-made robotics and automated vehicle technologies.
QUT researchers study biodiversity from all angles
To celebrate National Biodiversity Month we check in with QUT's early career researchers focused on the conservation of biological diversity within Australia and beyond.
Events
#Help: The Digital Transformation of Humanitarianism and the Governance of Populations
In this fourth seminar of our QUT Global Law, Science and Technology series we will hear from Professor Fleur Johns who will discuss how international humanitarianism is taking on new imperatives, protagonists, investments, techniques and objects of inquiry in connection with the expanding reach of the digital.
Online Lunch and Learn with QUT Entrepreneurship
Zoom in with your lunch, your questions and, your hunger to learn about entrepreneurship. Join the informal lunchtime learning session where you can listen to, and chat with, industry experts who'll share their entrepreneurial knowledge and experience.
Contact us
Institute for Future Environments
Level 6, P Block
Gardens Point
2 George St
Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia
Postal address
Institute for Future Environments
GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4001
