Professor Mohammed is a Senior Research Fellow with the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture and Centre Leader (Agricultural Systems). She has led an eclectic variety of agricultural and forest research projects in both developed and developing countries, including Australia, France, UK, Trinidad, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Congo, Indonesia, Vietnam and China. She is a pioneer of new areas of science such as exploring host defence responses in eucalypts, the development of a biocontrol to a tropical fungal pathogen, modelling the impact of pest and diseases as climate changes, investigating the potential of potatoes in Kenya and Tasmania and developing a whole-farm systems game.