Biodiversity

  • Felipe Gonzalez

    Felipe’s research interests are in creating aerial robots and drones that possess a high level of cognition, using efficient on-board computer algorithms. He applies advanced optimisation and game theory approaches that help to understand and improve the physical and natural world. 

  • Matthew Dunbabin

    Matthew conducts transdisciplinary research into environmental robotics focusing on advanced perception-to-action solutions with application to large-scale management and monitoring of challenges. His wide research interests include vision-based perception and classification, vision-based navigation, adaptive sampling and path planning, and cooperative robotics. Through application to large-scale marine habitat restoration, marine pest identification and control, conservation, greenhouse gas…

  • Noel Cressie

    Noel is a Distinguished Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, and Director of the Centre for Environmental Informatics in the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) at the University of Wollongong. His research focuses on environmental informatics, particularly in statistical remote sensing and statistics for spatio-temporal data. His…

  • Johan Barthélemy

    Johan is a Senior Developer Relations Manager in the Strategic Researcher Engagement team at NVIDIA, supporting researchers in the APAC region to accelerate their AI applications, and an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong. Prior to his role at NVIDIA he led the SMART Internet of Things Hub (IoT) and the Digital Living…

  • Matthew Adams

    Matthew is an applied mathematical modeller of environmental and biological systems, with a strong interest in using these models to inform decision-making. His work aims to bridge the gaps between modellers and decision-makers, by showing how mathematics can be used to gain substantial insights into how environmental systems function as well as inform their management….

  • Jodie Smith

    Dr Jodie Smith is an environmental scientist with experience in marine and coastal environments spanning the entire continent from the tropical north, temperate south and Antarctica. Jodie studied at UNSW, completing an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and a PhD in geochemistry in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences. She joined Geoscience Australia…

  • Mark Stevens

    Mark is an evolutionary biologist who collaborates nationally and internationally. His research projects have focused on invertebrate groups to explore patterns in diversification contrasted against climate and biome shifts using a range of molecular approaches.

  • Steven Chown

    Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor Steven Chown FAA is an award-winning biologist and one of the most highly cited researchers working on Antarctic environmental science and policy. He has represented the science community in the Antarctic Treaty System in a variety of roles, notably as President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) (2016-2021), as SCAR’s…

  • Sharon Robinson

    Sharon researches how Antarctic plants respond to climate change. She uses radiocarbon signatures left behind in the atmosphere by nuclear testing to date mosses and track environmental change around the coast of Antarctica. Her group identifies the sunscreens that plants make to protect themselves from elevated UV-B radiation resulting from ozone depletion. She is currently…

  • Kerrie Wilson

    Professor Kerrie Wilson is the Chief Scientist of the Queensland Government and a Chief Investigator with SAEF. Prior to this she was the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Sustainability and Research Integrity) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and SAEF’s Deputy Director of Career Development. Kerrie joined QUT in January 2019 and was the Executive Director of the…