Michael Walsh is an Associate Professor and Director of Weed Research with the University of Sydney. He grew up on a farm in Victoria before completing a BSc (Agri.) at the University of Western Australia 1985, MSc. (Agron.) at La Trobe University, Melbourne (1995) and a PhD (Agron.), University of Wyoming (1998). Michael then worked with the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative from 1999 to 2016 where he focused on the research and development of harvest weed seed control (HWSC) systems.
His efforts in the area of HWSC have led to the introduction and the Australia wide adoption of systems that target weed seed during crop harvest. Michael also researched the characterisation and management of herbicide resistance in wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) populations. Michael joined the University of Sydney in 2016 where he is responsible for leading weed research and development across GRDC’s northern cropping region.