Maharti Triharta

Maharti Triharta is a PhD candidate with a cross-disciplinary research topic that aims to bring the concept of sustainability to a career perspective of female engineers focusing on the social implications of differences in the reproductive system between sexes that require different needs and timing.  Prior to her candidature, she graduated with a double degree in Petroleum Engineering and Commerce from The University of Western Australia and started her career with the largest global oilfield services company. She was working globally as a petroleum engineer for 10 years, working in oil and gas upstream projects in various locations including remote areas in East African countries, the Middle East, Southeast Asia,  France, and Australia; from field engineer to field and project management, and  training instructor.

After her international assignment Maharti completed a Master of Environmental Engineering at The University of Melbourne in 2019. She has been teaching within the Department of Infrastructure Engineering and started a PhD in 2022. Her research topic is personal as she has extensive experience as a female in a male-dominated workforce, and though she has never felt unsupported by colleagues and the company, she identified opportunities to improve the career longevity of females in the male-dominated profession of engineering and create sustainable career pathways that consider inborn reproductive biological inequity for female engineers.