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Dr
The University of Western Australia (M087), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Bede completed his MSc in 2011 and was fortunate enough to be awarded the Australian Post Graduate Award to continue studies for a PhD in soil microbial ecology. His PhD focus investigated simulated agricultural management practices on soil microbial processes in relation to rhizosphere Carbon and Nitrogen cycling under water stress. Bede finished his PhD in 2016 and went straight into the position of research and development manager for Richgro garden products, and has brought scientific understanding to commercialisation at a national level. During this time Bede was in the inaugural SproutX accelerator group where he successfully founded the start-up Food3. Since 2017, Bede readily took the opportunity to diversify his skills by collaborating with multiple researchers across Australia, investigating the broad themes of nutrient and value recovery from food waste - as evidenced in his more recent publications e.g. anaerobic digestion, microalgal cultivation, lactic acid fermentation. Bede has successfully been able to bridge the gap between academia and industry and takes great pride in being an industry based applied scientist.
Bede is a driven and fun loving individual, who enjoys outdoor life (kite surfing, skateboarding with kids) to the full with his partner Aimee, and their three children - Audrey, Jude and Maggie.
Bede is a microbial generalist, who aims to relate microbial driven functional processes to; plant health, anaerobic digestion performance, lactic acid fermentation, or commercial composting. To achieve this, all of his skills have been centred around DNA sequencing of bacteria and fungi with subsequent analysis of functional genes relating to certain metabolic pathways.
Bede's research themes fall under;
Bede has been successful for two AusIndustry Innovation connections grants for Richgro Garden products, where there have been positive industrial and academic outcomes, in Microalgal cultivation, and anaerobic digestion effluent re-use (digestate)
Bede is the industry representative for Soil Science Western Australia
Bede guest lectures for;
Bede has one PhD student at Murdoch University: Lactic acid fermentation from two stage anaerobic digestion.
Bede has supervised several MSc resaerch projects from UWA in his field of research.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Soil biology, PhD
Industry representative for Soil Science Western Australia
3 Nov 2019 → …
Research and Development manager, Richgro Garden Products
2017 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Jenkins, S., Abbott, L., Bolan, N., Siddique, K., Kragt, M., Solaiman, Z., Mickan, B., Leopold, M., Barton, L. & Waite, I.
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia)
1/06/22 → 31/10/25
Project: Research
Abbott, L., Bolan, N., Siddique, K., Solaiman, Z., Vercoe, P., Mickan, B., Jenkins, S., Pauli, N., Leopold, M. & Kragt, M.
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (Western Australia)
3/01/22 → 5/02/29
Project: Research
Yinglong Chen (Host), Lynette Abbott (Host) & Bede Mickan (Host)
Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor