Rate My Professor Anthony Koutoulis

Professor Anthony Koutoulis serves as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Plant Science at the University of Tasmania. He completed his BSc (Hons) and PhD at the School of Botany, University of Melbourne, with the PhD awarded in 1993. After his doctoral studies, he undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Adelaide and the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research in Massachusetts. He joined the University of Tasmania in 1996 and has since occupied senior leadership roles for over 15 years, including Head of School in the School of Plant Science, Associate Dean (Research), Chair of Academic Senate, and Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). Appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) in 2019, he oversaw the delivery of the University’s Strategic Plan 2019-2024. In 2018, he led the academic components of the University’s Transformation Program in northern Tasmania. Throughout his tenure, Koutoulis has sustained a robust teaching practice spanning more than 20 years, where he developed courses and conducted major curriculum reviews in the Biological Sciences.

Professor Koutoulis’s research focuses on cell and molecular biology, plant breeding, genetics, analytical chemistry, and biotechnology, establishing an international reputation in hop research. His academic interests extend to plant breeding for abiotic stress tolerance, including waterlogging, drought, and salinity in barley; polyploidy and sterility breeding in Acacia species; QTL mapping; aerenchyma formation; malt and brewing quality; microbial communities in malting; and genetic diversity in plants and oysters. Notable publications include 'Waterlogging tolerance in barley is associated with faster aerenchyma formation in adventitious roots' (2015), 'Meta-analysis of major QTL for abiotic stress tolerance in barley and implications for barley breeding' (2017), 'A new major-effect QTL for waterlogging tolerance in wild barley (H. spontaneum)' (2017), 'In vitro tetraploid induction and generation of tetraploids from mixoploids in hop (Humulus lupulus L.)' (2001), 'The latex capacity of opium poppy capsules is fixed early in capsule development and is not a major determinant in morphine yield' (2009), 'Floral phenology and morphology of colchicine-induced tetraploid Acacia mangium compared with diploid A. mangium and A. auriculiformis' (2011), 'Red to far-red ratio correction in plant growth chambers' (2007), and 'The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ODA3 Gene Encodes a Chlamydomonas Homolog of the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Protein MAD3' (1997). His publications have accumulated over 800 citations.