Appointed July 2021

Professor Neal Menzies AM is currently Dean of Agriculture and leads the School of Agriculture and Food Science at the University of Queensland.

Neal has a passion for agriculture and the environment and has used his role as a teacher and research leader to bring others into this highly rewarding field. He believes that environmental scientists must go further than identifying where human activity is harming the environment and must also deliver workable solutions to problems.

While his research spans a range of agricultural and environmental chemistry issues, he considers himself primarily a soil scientist, and sees soil science as a central discipline in the solution of a broad range of problems.

Neal's main research interests are phyto-toxicity of metals, particularly aluminium, surface charge chemistry, and the management of nutrients in tropical farming systems.

Neal is a past president of the Australian Society of Soil Science and past vice-president of the International Union of Soil Science.