Professor Philip Brown
BAgrSc(Hons), PhD (UTas)Professor of Horticultural Science
School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences
Institute for Future Farming Systems
Building 8 - G.22
Prof Phil Brown is an agricultural scientist with a passion for working with agricultural industries to improve their productivity, profitability and sustainability. Phil arrived in Bundaberg in 2010 to take up the position of Professor of Horticultural Science. Phil's research expertise is in horticultural science, with a focus on plant physiology and agronomy. He works closely with industry partners to deliver practical outcomes based on an understanding of the physiological and anatomical basis of crop development. Bundaberg is the perfect location for horticultural research, with a greater concentration of horticultural industries in the region than anywhere else in Australia.
Media Citations
Professional Experience
Sep 2015 - present Director, Institute for Future farming Systems, CQUniversity
Mar 2010 – present Professor of Horticultural Science
School of Health, Medical and Applied Science, CQUniversity
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Head of School
School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania
July 2006 – Jan 2009 Deputy Director, Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research
University of Tasmania
Jan 2003 – Dec 2008 Senior Lecturer (Level C), Horticultural Science
School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania
Jan. 1997 – Jan 2003 Lecturer (Level B), Horticultural Science
School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania
May 1994 – Jan. 1997 Associate Lecturer (Level A), Horticultural Science
Department of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania
April 1992 – May 1994 Research Officer (Plant Production Group)
Biology Department, University of Central Queensland
Professional Memberships
1996 - present International Society for Horticultural Science
1996 - present Australian Society of Horticultural Science (past President of AuSHS)
1992 - 2000 Australian Society of Plant Physiologists
Hinkler Regional Deal - Agricultural Technology Facility
Grant: Competitive Grant (Category 2: Other Public Sector)
Funding Scheme: Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources - Hinkler Regional Deal
Total Funding: $5,000,000.00
Research Partnership: Haughton Solar Farm - Agri-volaics
Grant: Contract Research (Category 3: Industry and Other)
Funding Scheme: PacificHydro - PH Haughton Solar Farm Pty Ltd
Total Funding: $11,000.00
A robotic guidance and control system for mobile farm equipment, initially a mower
Grant: Contract Research (Category 3: Industry and Other)
Funding Scheme: ICU Solutions Pty Ltd T/A Smarter Farm Systems Australia
Total Funding: $29,217.00
Collaborative Deed CQU & DAF
Grant: Competitive Grant (Category 2: Other Public Sector)
Funding Scheme: Department of Agriculture & Fisheries
Total Funding: $1,175,000.00
#1255135 New Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) Transport Route Impact Study
Grant: Contract Research (Public)
Funding Scheme: ERIAS Group Pty Ltd
Total Funding: $21,954.07
LP15007 (CON-001063) - Protected cropping in the Australian tropics: An optimisation and decision making framework
Grant: Scholarship (Category 1: Aust Competitive Grant)
Funding Scheme: HIA Scholarship
Total Funding: $120,900.00
Novel approaches for root-knot nematodes control
Grant: Competitive Grant (Category 2: Other Public Sector)
Funding Scheme: Advance Queensland Research Fellowships
Total Funding: $300,000.00
Optimisation of a crops fertility management program - ICG000060
Grant: Competitive Grant (Public)
Funding Scheme: Innovation Connections - Discretionary Grants - prev Research Connect & Enterprise Connect
Total Funding: $50,000.00
Integrating protected cropping systems into high value vegetable value chains in the Pacific and Australia - HORT/2014/080
Grant: Competitive Grant (Category 1: Aust Competitive Grant)
Funding Scheme: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Total Funding: $1,325,082.00
Supporting commercial sweet potato production and marketing in the PNG highlands - HORT/2014/097
Grant: Competitive Grant (Category 1: Aust Competitive Grant)
Funding Scheme: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Total Funding: $4,999,833.00
Food security in Pacific Island farming communities: assessing the impact of protected vegetable cropping on local market diversity, access, affordability, sustainability and utilisation
Grant: Competitive Grant (Ineligible)
Funding Scheme: The Crawford Fund
Total Funding: $3,500.00
LP15007 (CON-001064) - Temporal scale precision irrigation and fertigation in horticultural crops by combining crop based sensor data acquisition and precision irrigation technologies
Grant: Scholarship (Category 1: Aust Competitive Grant)
Funding Scheme: HIA Scholarship
Total Funding: $135,000.00
Advanced Management Decision Tool for Tropical/Subtropical Protected Cropping Systems
Grant: Competitive Grant (Category 2: Other Public Sector)
Funding Scheme: Advance Queensland Research Fellowships
Total Funding: $300,000.00
Research Fellows - Farming Systems and Vegetable Crop Science
Grant: Competitive Grant (Category 3)
Funding Scheme: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Queensland
Total Funding: $1,128,660.59
Mitigating climate change and greenhouse gases in tropical vegetable production
Grant: Competitive Grant (Not Specified )
Funding Scheme: Carbon Farming Futures - Filling the Research Gap - Round 2
Total Funding: $0.00
Accreditation
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
- 4518 Pacific Peoples society and community
- 3004 Crop and Pasture Production
- 3002 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management
- 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation
- 3008 Horticultural Production
- 3099 Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Current Capacity
Agriculture, Land and Farm Management - Farming Systems Research
Agriculture, Land and Farm Management - Sustainable Agricultural Development
Crop and Pasture Production - Agronomy
Horticultural Production - Horticultural Crop Growth and Development
Horticultural Production - Post Harvest Horticultural Technologies (incl. Transportation and Storage)
