Charmaine Lloyd

Senior Lecturer in Microbiology

Dr. Charmaine Lloyd joined RMIT University in July 2023. She taught Microbiology and related STEM courses for the past 16 years at the Polytechnic and University level in India, Singapore (SG) and Australia. She has been recognised for her dedication to teaching with three School Teaching awards (Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore), two national awards (EXSA Gold, Singapore), one national society award in Australia i.e. the Australian Society of Microbiology (ASM) Early Career Excellence in Teaching Award and the Vice Chancellor's special mention for her efforts in WIL Industry Engagement at Swinburne University of Technology (2022).

She is currently the ASM Education Special Interest Group (EdSIG) convenor and ASM EduCon conference organiser for 2024-'25.

Industry experience:
2023 onwards - School of Science, STEM college, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

2020-'23 - School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology

2018-'20 - Monash University (Microbiology, Immunology - sessional); Federation University (Microbiology, Mammalian Genetics - sessional)

2009-'18 - School of Life Sciences & Chemical Technologies (Molecular Biotechnology, Biomedical Science, Veterinary Bioscience), Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore

2007-'08 - YRG Center for HIV/AIDs Research, India

2004-'07 - Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Junior and Senior Research Fellow (PhD funding)

2003-'04 - University Grants Commission (RA)