Vigya Sharma

Vigya has degrees in engineering and social science, and applies this interdisciplinary training to research complex social, institutional and economic aspects of the modern energy and mining sectors globally. Specifically, at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, her interest is in understanding how the presence (or absence) of resources impacts development outcomes in host communities and regions.

Vigya also has a part-time appointment with the School of Chemical Engineering at UQ, where she teaches a course on Humanitarian Engineering that has been offered to students across the Engineering faculty since 2020.

Outside academia, she is a member of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, an Independent Advisory Council to the UN Secretary-General, to contribute to their goal to build a coalition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.