Harvey Millar

University of Western Australia

Professor Harvey Millar is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow, research node leader in P4S and board member at the International Space Centre at the University of Western Australia, and conducts research at UWA’s School of Molecular Sciences. His previous research involves mitochondrial function, central metabolism and protein complex assembly in plants, proteomics in Arabidopsis, wheat and barley and the energy efficiency of plants in harsh environments.

To identify and optimise ‘complete nutrition’ plants in the challenging environment of Space, Harvey’s current research is a launch pad for P4S program 1.2. His research ‘firsts’ that will help promote the search for a crop to bring together optimised concentrations of essential macro- and micro-nutrients are, among others, the exploration of the first plant mitochondrial proteomes, new insights into carbon and nitrogen metabolism during plant stress regimes relevant for Space, detailed assessments of protein turnover rates in plants and the role of mitochondrial transport processes in plant energy efficiency.  

“I could not go to Space without a plan to return in one piece”