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1 Our transdisiplinary projet teams work with partner organisations from the publi and private setors to identify their business needs and problems and find innovative solutions. Projets range from short-term onsultany work to long-term ollaborations. Our researh teams are supported by professional staff experiened in projet management and administration and tehnial staff with the expertise to make maximum use of our world-lass researh failities. Clarify your organisation s researh and innovation needs. Collaborate with leading researhers from a broad range of fields. Aess world-lass researh failities. Commerialise IFE-developed tehnologies and innovations and apply the latest aademi insights and paradigms. Failitate ommunity dialogue and engagement. Form ommunities of pratie to assist in apability development. Reruit highly skilled researh graduates trained through your ollaboration. Build researh allianes aross organisations and industries. The Institute for Future Environments (IFE) is a transdisiplinary researh and innovation institute at Queensland University of Tehnology (QUT) in, Australia. Thousands of QUT researhers and students from aross the fields of siene, engineering, law, business, health, eduation and the reative industries ollaborate at the IFE on large-sale projets To generate knowledge, tehnology and praties that make our world more sustainable, seure and resilient. To be renowned as a atalyst for: addressing IFE Diretorate Level 6, P Blok QUT QLD 4000 global hallenges that build a strong Australia, with a ompetitive eonomy delivering innovations through transdisiplinary ollaboration nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit of researhers inspiring a generation to reognise STEAM (Siene, Tehnology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematis) as being at the heart of the ountry s ompetitiveness. Addressing GPO Box 2434, QLD 4001 Forming ommunity and researh organisations Providing state-of-the-art researh infrastruture for: researh and researh training ommerial and tehnial servies Flikr YouTube Our approah Only by working losely with industry, government and the ommunity an researhers have an impat on the real world. We strive to ollaborate with partners at every stage of the innovation proess from identifying the problems and questions we investigate to developing new tehnologies, tehniques and ideas and then applying or ommerialising them. Outreah QUT aknowledges the finanial support of the Australian and Queensland Governments and The Atlanti Philanthropies in the establishment of the Institute for Future Environments and the Siene and Engineering Centre. Throughout the year we run publi letures, forums, information sessions and other events to showase our researh and highlight the ritial role of STEAM Siene, Tehnology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematis in the eonomy and our everyday lives. Find out more at /events.

2 Our transdisiplinary projet teams work with partner organisations from the publi and private setors to identify their business needs and problems and find innovative solutions. Projets range from short-term onsultany work to long-term ollaborations. Our researh teams are supported by professional staff experiened in projet management and administration and tehnial staff with the expertise to make maximum use of our world-lass researh failities. Clarify your organisation s researh and innovation needs. Collaborate with leading researhers from a broad range of fields. Aess world-lass researh failities. Commerialise IFE-developed tehnologies and innovations and apply the latest aademi insights and paradigms. Failitate ommunity dialogue and engagement. Form ommunities of pratie to assist in apability development. Reruit highly skilled researh graduates trained through your ollaboration. Build researh allianes aross organisations and industries. The Institute for Future Environments (IFE) is a transdisiplinary researh and innovation institute at Queensland University of Tehnology (QUT) in, Australia. Thousands of QUT researhers and students from aross the fields of siene, engineering, law, business, health, eduation and the reative industries ollaborate at the IFE on large-sale projets To generate knowledge, tehnology and praties that make our world more sustainable, seure and resilient. To be renowned as a atalyst for: addressing IFE Diretorate Level 6, P Blok QUT QLD 4000 global hallenges that build a strong Australia, with a ompetitive eonomy delivering innovations through transdisiplinary ollaboration nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit of researhers inspiring a generation to reognise STEAM (Siene, Tehnology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematis) as being at the heart of the ountry s ompetitiveness. Addressing GPO Box 2434, QLD 4001 Forming ommunity and researh organisations Providing state-of-the-art researh infrastruture for: researh and researh training ommerial and tehnial servies Flikr YouTube Our approah Only by working losely with industry, government and the ommunity an researhers have an impat on the real world. We strive to ollaborate with partners at every stage of the innovation proess from identifying the problems and questions we investigate to developing new tehnologies, tehniques and ideas and then applying or ommerialising them. Outreah QUT aknowledges the finanial support of the Australian and Queensland Governments and The Atlanti Philanthropies in the establishment of the Institute for Future Environments and the Siene and Engineering Centre. Throughout the year we run publi letures, forums, information sessions and other events to showase our researh and highlight the ritial role of STEAM Siene, Tehnology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematis in the eonomy and our everyday lives. Find out more at /events.

3 RESEARCH AGENDA Transdisiplinary solutions to global problems Several grand hallenges onfront humanity in the 21st entury, from feeding the world s booming population and designing sustainable infrastruture to proteting vulnerable eosystems and managing sare resoures. These hallenges do not divide neatly into traditional aademi ategories, so researhers must go beyond onventional ways of thinking and working to find solutions. The IFE is at the forefront of a shift to transdisiplinary integration and ollaboration in researh. Deep knowledge in speifi disiplines is as important as ever, but large-sale programs and projets require teams of experts from many disiplines. We bring together experts from aross QUT s six faulties, drawing on well-established researh programs and entres suh as the Centre for Tropial Crops and Bioommodities. We ollaborate with leading national and international industry, government and ommunity organisations on the pratial appliations of our researh. RESEARCH THEMES Our researh themes are linked to speifi soietal hallenges and setors of the eonomy: Growing the Global Bioeonomy Food for all, better nutrition, valuable bioproduts Managing for Resilient Landsapes Shaping our future environments Many of the world s problems, and the solutions to them, lie at the intersetions of our natural, built and virtual environments. These environments support our food, energy, infrastruture and ommuniation systems. The IFE studies these interating environments and systems and their underlying soial, ultural and eonomi ontext and finds ways to make them more sustainable, seure and resilient. Monitoring and modelling eosystems for sustainable development and stewardship RESEARCH FACILITIES The IFE uses state-of-the-art researh failities for monitoring the environment, modelling omplex systems, analysing solids, liquids and gases, and developing pilot equipment and proesses. Our failities play a vital role in supporting transdisiplinary researh on a sale beyond the reah of individual researh groups or disiplines. Siene and Engineering Centre Home to the IFE Diretorate, CARF, ViseR, The Cube, projet rooms and offie spaes, and hosts several allied organisations, inluding METS Ignited Growth Centre, Bondi Labs and the Queensland nodes of the Australian Researh Counil Centre of Exellene for Mathematial and Statistial Frontiers (ACEMS) and the CRC for Spatial Information (CRC SI) Visualisation and eresearh (ViseR) Infrastruture for Sustainable Communities Planning, designing and building thriving ommunities An expert team using utting-edge software platforms and AV and IT equipment, inluding The Cube, to develop innovative ways of modelling and visualising omplex information Makay Renewable Bioommodities Pilot Plant A unique researh faility, based on the site of an operating sugar fatory, that develops tehnology and proesses to onvert biomass into biofuels and other bioproduts Banyo Pilot Plant Preint A general purpose faility for large-sale strutural, mehanial, eletrial and water engineering and aquaulture researh, as well as produt testing and validation and samples proessing Embraing the Digital Age Seizing opportunities arising from the digital transformation of the way we live, work and think ENABLING PLATFORMS Our enabling platforms are tehnologies, tehniques and systems that an solve a wide range of problems for industry and soiety: Central Analytial Researh Faility (CARF) Purpose-built labs for eletron and light mirosopy, analytial and environmental hemistry, moleular genetis, proteomis, mass spetrometry, X-ray and neutron diffration, physial and mehanial properties Da Vini Preint An aerospae automation faility that inludes an airraft simulation and testing laboratory, an avionis development area, an indoor flying area, a general workshop and an offie area (photo by Jen Dainer, Industrial Ar Photography) IntelliSensing Transforming data olletion, modelling, analytis and deision making Samford Eologial Researh Faility (SERF) A 51 hetare peri-urban field station used for eosystem researh, environmental monitoring (soil, water, air and sound), and animal and plant population and behaviour studies Transforming Innovation Systems Inreasing tehnology and information flow among people, enterprises and institutions Manufaturing with Advaned Materials Disovering and designing new and improved materials for diverse appliations Queensland Crop Development Faility Situated on the Redlands Researh Faility, this 22 hetare tropial, subtropial and moleular farming researh faility, owned by the Queensland Government and managed by the Department of Agriulture and Fisheries, inludes five glasshouses (PC2 and non-pc2 ontainment) and field plots for rop trials

4 RESEARCH AGENDA Transdisiplinary solutions to global problems Several grand hallenges onfront humanity in the 21st entury, from feeding the world s booming population and designing sustainable infrastruture to proteting vulnerable eosystems and managing sare resoures. These hallenges do not divide neatly into traditional aademi ategories, so researhers must go beyond onventional ways of thinking and working to find solutions. The IFE is at the forefront of a shift to transdisiplinary integration and ollaboration in researh. Deep knowledge in speifi disiplines is as important as ever, but large-sale programs and projets require teams of experts from many disiplines. We bring together experts from aross QUT s six faulties, drawing on well-established researh programs and entres suh as the Centre for Tropial Crops and Bioommodities. We ollaborate with leading national and international industry, government and ommunity organisations on the pratial appliations of our researh. RESEARCH THEMES Our researh themes are linked to speifi soietal hallenges and setors of the eonomy: Growing the Global Bioeonomy Food for all, better nutrition, valuable bioproduts Managing for Resilient Landsapes Shaping our future environments Many of the world s problems, and the solutions to them, lie at the intersetions of our natural, built and virtual environments. These environments support our food, energy, infrastruture and ommuniation systems. The IFE studies these interating environments and systems and their underlying soial, ultural and eonomi ontext and finds ways to make them more sustainable, seure and resilient. Monitoring and modelling eosystems for sustainable development and stewardship RESEARCH FACILITIES The IFE uses state-of-the-art researh failities for monitoring the environment, modelling omplex systems, analysing solids, liquids and gases, and developing pilot equipment and proesses. Our failities play a vital role in supporting transdisiplinary researh on a sale beyond the reah of individual researh groups or disiplines. Siene and Engineering Centre Home to the IFE Diretorate, CARF, ViseR, The Cube, projet rooms and offie spaes, and hosts several allied organisations, inluding METS Ignited Growth Centre, Bondi Labs and the Queensland nodes of the Australian Researh Counil Centre of Exellene for Mathematial and Statistial Frontiers (ACEMS) and the CRC for Spatial Information (CRC SI) Visualisation and eresearh (ViseR) Infrastruture for Sustainable Communities Planning, designing and building thriving ommunities An expert team using utting-edge software platforms and AV and IT equipment, inluding The Cube, to develop innovative ways of modelling and visualising omplex information Makay Renewable Bioommodities Pilot Plant A unique researh faility, based on the site of an operating sugar fatory, that develops tehnology and proesses to onvert biomass into biofuels and other bioproduts Banyo Pilot Plant Preint A general purpose faility for large-sale strutural, mehanial, eletrial and water engineering and aquaulture researh, as well as produt testing and validation and samples proessing Embraing the Digital Age Seizing opportunities arising from the digital transformation of the way we live, work and think ENABLING PLATFORMS Our enabling platforms are tehnologies, tehniques and systems that an solve a wide range of problems for industry and soiety: Central Analytial Researh Faility (CARF) Purpose-built labs for eletron and light mirosopy, analytial and environmental hemistry, moleular genetis, proteomis, mass spetrometry, X-ray and neutron diffration, physial and mehanial properties Da Vini Preint An aerospae automation faility that inludes an airraft simulation and testing laboratory, an avionis development area, an indoor flying area, a general workshop and an offie area (photo by Jen Dainer, Industrial Ar Photography) IntelliSensing Transforming data olletion, modelling, analytis and deision making Samford Eologial Researh Faility (SERF) A 51 hetare peri-urban field station used for eosystem researh, environmental monitoring (soil, water, air and sound), and animal and plant population and behaviour studies Transforming Innovation Systems Inreasing tehnology and information flow among people, enterprises and institutions Manufaturing with Advaned Materials Disovering and designing new and improved materials for diverse appliations Queensland Crop Development Faility Situated on the Redlands Researh Faility, this 22 hetare tropial, subtropial and moleular farming researh faility, owned by the Queensland Government and managed by the Department of Agriulture and Fisheries, inludes five glasshouses (PC2 and non-pc2 ontainment) and field plots for rop trials

5 RESEARCH AGENDA Transdisiplinary solutions to global problems Several grand hallenges onfront humanity in the 21st entury, from feeding the world s booming population and designing sustainable infrastruture to proteting vulnerable eosystems and managing sare resoures. These hallenges do not divide neatly into traditional aademi ategories, so researhers must go beyond onventional ways of thinking and working to find solutions. The IFE is at the forefront of a shift to transdisiplinary integration and ollaboration in researh. Deep knowledge in speifi disiplines is as important as ever, but large-sale programs and projets require teams of experts from many disiplines. We bring together experts from aross QUT s six faulties, drawing on well-established researh programs and entres suh as the Centre for Tropial Crops and Bioommodities. We ollaborate with leading national and international industry, government and ommunity organisations on the pratial appliations of our researh. RESEARCH THEMES Our researh themes are linked to speifi soietal hallenges and setors of the eonomy: Growing the Global Bioeonomy Food for all, better nutrition, valuable bioproduts Managing for Resilient Landsapes Shaping our future environments Many of the world s problems, and the solutions to them, lie at the intersetions of our natural, built and virtual environments. These environments support our food, energy, infrastruture and ommuniation systems. The IFE studies these interating environments and systems and their underlying soial, ultural and eonomi ontext and finds ways to make them more sustainable, seure and resilient. Monitoring and modelling eosystems for sustainable development and stewardship RESEARCH FACILITIES The IFE uses state-of-the-art researh failities for monitoring the environment, modelling omplex systems, analysing solids, liquids and gases, and developing pilot equipment and proesses. Our failities play a vital role in supporting transdisiplinary researh on a sale beyond the reah of individual researh groups or disiplines. Siene and Engineering Centre Home to the IFE Diretorate, CARF, ViseR, The Cube, projet rooms and offie spaes, and hosts several allied organisations, inluding METS Ignited Growth Centre, Bondi Labs and the Queensland nodes of the Australian Researh Counil Centre of Exellene for Mathematial and Statistial Frontiers (ACEMS) and the CRC for Spatial Information (CRC SI) Visualisation and eresearh (ViseR) Infrastruture for Sustainable Communities Planning, designing and building thriving ommunities An expert team using utting-edge software platforms and AV and IT equipment, inluding The Cube, to develop innovative ways of modelling and visualising omplex information Makay Renewable Bioommodities Pilot Plant A unique researh faility, based on the site of an operating sugar fatory, that develops tehnology and proesses to onvert biomass into biofuels and other bioproduts Banyo Pilot Plant Preint A general purpose faility for large-sale strutural, mehanial, eletrial and water engineering and aquaulture researh, as well as produt testing and validation and samples proessing Embraing the Digital Age Seizing opportunities arising from the digital transformation of the way we live, work and think ENABLING PLATFORMS Our enabling platforms are tehnologies, tehniques and systems that an solve a wide range of problems for industry and soiety: Central Analytial Researh Faility (CARF) Purpose-built labs for eletron and light mirosopy, analytial and environmental hemistry, moleular genetis, proteomis, mass spetrometry, X-ray and neutron diffration, physial and mehanial properties Da Vini Preint An aerospae automation faility that inludes an airraft simulation and testing laboratory, an avionis development area, an indoor flying area, a general workshop and an offie area (photo by Jen Dainer, Industrial Ar Photography) IntelliSensing Transforming data olletion, modelling, analytis and deision making Samford Eologial Researh Faility (SERF) A 51 hetare peri-urban field station used for eosystem researh, environmental monitoring (soil, water, air and sound), and animal and plant population and behaviour studies Transforming Innovation Systems Inreasing tehnology and information flow among people, enterprises and institutions Manufaturing with Advaned Materials Disovering and designing new and improved materials for diverse appliations Queensland Crop Development Faility Situated on the Redlands Researh Faility, this 22 hetare tropial, subtropial and moleular farming researh faility, owned by the Queensland Government and managed by the Department of Agriulture and Fisheries, inludes five glasshouses (PC2 and non-pc2 ontainment) and field plots for rop trials

6 Our transdisiplinary projet teams work with partner organisations from the publi and private setors to identify their business needs and problems and find innovative solutions. Projets range from short-term onsultany work to long-term ollaborations. Our researh teams are supported by professional staff experiened in projet management and administration and tehnial staff with the expertise to make maximum use of our world-lass researh failities. Clarify your organisation s researh and innovation needs. Collaborate with leading researhers from a broad range of fields. Aess world-lass researh failities. Commerialise IFE-developed tehnologies and innovations and apply the latest aademi insights and paradigms. Failitate ommunity dialogue and engagement. Form ommunities of pratie to assist in apability development. Reruit highly skilled researh graduates trained through your ollaboration. Build researh allianes aross organisations and industries. The Institute for Future Environments (IFE) is a transdisiplinary researh and innovation institute at Queensland University of Tehnology (QUT) in, Australia. Thousands of QUT researhers and students from aross the fields of siene, engineering, law, business, health, eduation and the reative industries ollaborate at the IFE on large-sale projets To generate knowledge, tehnology and praties that make our world more sustainable, seure and resilient. To be renowned as a atalyst for: addressing IFE Diretorate Level 6, P Blok QUT QLD 4000 global hallenges that build a strong Australia, with a ompetitive eonomy delivering innovations through transdisiplinary ollaboration nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit of researhers inspiring a generation to reognise STEAM (Siene, Tehnology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematis) as being at the heart of the ountry s ompetitiveness. Addressing GPO Box 2434, QLD 4001 Forming ommunity and researh organisations Providing state-of-the-art researh infrastruture for: researh and researh training ommerial and tehnial servies Flikr YouTube Our approah Only by working losely with industry, government and the ommunity an researhers have an impat on the real world. We strive to ollaborate with partners at every stage of the innovation proess from identifying the problems and questions we investigate to developing new tehnologies, tehniques and ideas and then applying or ommerialising them. Outreah QUT aknowledges the finanial support of the Australian and Queensland Governments and The Atlanti Philanthropies in the establishment of the Institute for Future Environments and the Siene and Engineering Centre. Throughout the year we run publi letures, forums, information sessions and other events to showase our researh and highlight the ritial role of STEAM Siene, Tehnology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematis in the eonomy and our everyday lives. Find out more at /events.

7 Our transdisiplinary projet teams work with partner organisations from the publi and private setors to identify their business needs and problems and find innovative solutions. Projets range from short-term onsultany work to long-term ollaborations. Our researh teams are supported by professional staff experiened in projet management and administration and tehnial staff with the expertise to make maximum use of our world-lass researh failities. Clarify your organisation s researh and innovation needs. Collaborate with leading researhers from a broad range of fields. Aess world-lass researh failities. Commerialise IFE-developed tehnologies and innovations and apply the latest aademi insights and paradigms. Failitate ommunity dialogue and engagement. Form ommunities of pratie to assist in apability development. Reruit highly skilled researh graduates trained through your ollaboration. Build researh allianes aross organisations and industries. The Institute for Future Environments (IFE) is a transdisiplinary researh and innovation institute at Queensland University of Tehnology (QUT) in, Australia. Thousands of QUT researhers and students from aross the fields of siene, engineering, law, business, health, eduation and the reative industries ollaborate at the IFE on large-sale projets To generate knowledge, tehnology and praties that make our world more sustainable, seure and resilient. To be renowned as a atalyst for: addressing IFE Diretorate Level 6, P Blok QUT QLD 4000 global hallenges that build a strong Australia, with a ompetitive eonomy delivering innovations through transdisiplinary ollaboration nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit of researhers inspiring a generation to reognise STEAM (Siene, Tehnology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematis) as being at the heart of the ountry s ompetitiveness. Addressing GPO Box 2434, QLD 4001 Forming ommunity and researh organisations Providing state-of-the-art researh infrastruture for: researh and researh training ommerial and tehnial servies Flikr YouTube Our approah Only by working losely with industry, government and the ommunity an researhers have an impat on the real world. We strive to ollaborate with partners at every stage of the innovation proess from identifying the problems and questions we investigate to developing new tehnologies, tehniques and ideas and then applying or ommerialising them. Outreah QUT aknowledges the finanial support of the Australian and Queensland Governments and The Atlanti Philanthropies in the establishment of the Institute for Future Environments and the Siene and Engineering Centre. Throughout the year we run publi letures, forums, information sessions and other events to showase our researh and highlight the ritial role of STEAM Siene, Tehnology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematis in the eonomy and our everyday lives. Find out more at /events.