Professor Anton Middelberg is Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Innovation at Adelaide University, where he leads the University's research, innovation, commercialisation and industry engagement agenda. He was a member of the executive leadership team responsible for creating Adelaide University through the merger of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia.

Anton is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK), and the US National Academy of Inventors. He holds Bachelor and Doctoral degrees in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Adelaide. Following a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, Anton joined the University of Cambridge as a tenured academic, where he held a Fellowship at Selwyn College and was a member of the Cambridge-MIT Institute. In 2003, he returned to Australia as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and was subsequently awarded the Queensland Premier's Fellowship. Between 2014 and 2017, he served as Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and International) and Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at The University of Queensland. In 2017, Anton returned to the University of Adelaide as Executive Dean of Engineering before being appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice-President (Research).

Anton received University Medals as the leading graduate in both Chemical Engineering and Engineering at the University of Adelaide and was awarded the Brodie Medal by Engineers Australia as the nation's leading chemical engineer under the age of 40. He is internationally recognised for his contributions to chemical engineering, advanced biomanufacturing, soft matter science, and bio-nanotechnology. His research has helped shape emerging fields at the interface of engineering, biology and medicine, and he has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications that have been cited over 10,000 times.