Troy Miller

A research scientist passionate about overcoming biological challenges when growing plants in space. I have a keen interest in plant molecular biology, genetic engineering, energy metabolism and abiotic stress tolerance. Since mid-2024, I have been a Post-Doctoral Research Associate for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space at the University of Western Australia, developing plants with improved hypoxia tolerance, working with Prof Harvey Millar.

From 2015 to 2018 I completed an honours degree (Awarded AJ and IM Naylon Scholarship) in Biotechnology at Flinders University (South Australia) supervised by A/Prof Peter Anderson during my 4^th year research component, where I explored the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in plant gene editing. From 2019 to mid-2020 I was employed as a Research Assistant at Flinders University, working with Emeritus Prof David Day and Dr Crystal Sweetman researching abiotic stress tolerance in legumes. In mid-2020 I began my PhD in plant molecular biology at Flinders University, supervised by Emeritus Prof David Day and Dr Sunita Ramesh working on improving nitrogen fixation in Chickpeas.