Meet the Team
Principal Investigators
Brendan Wintle (he/him)
Professor of Conservation Ecology
Threatened Species, Species Distribution Modelling, Making Decisions Under Uncertainty, Cost-Effectiveness of Conservation Programs
Fiona Fidler
Professor
Reproducibility, Social and Behavioural Science, Metascience, Philosophy of Science
Libby Rumpff (she/her)
Research Fellow
Decision Analysis for Conservation and Research Management, Threatened Species and Communities, Fire Management
Michael McCarthy (he/him)
Professor
Statistical Ecology, Imperfect Detection, Population Ecology, Ecological Modelling
Peter Vesk (he/him)
Professor
Plants and Vegetation, Functional Traits, Ecological Modelling, mainly statistical, Eucalypt Tree Ecology, Vegetation Management and Conservation
Researchers
Alys Young (she/her)
PhD Candidate / Research Assistant
Species Distribution Modelling, Remote-sensing data, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
Anja Skroblin (she/her)
Research Fellow
Threatened Species Conservation, Designing Monitoring, Combining Knowledges, Evidence Based Land Management
August (Tianxiao) Hao (he/him)
PhD Candidate
Species Distribution Modelling, Biogeographic Regionalisation, Fungi Biogeography, Citizen Science Data
Bonnie Wintle (she/her)
Research Fellow
Meta-research, Expert Judgement, Environmental Decision Making, Horizon Scanning
Bronwyn Hradsky (she/her)
Research Fellow
Threatened Species Conservation, Invasive Predator Ecology, Fire Ecology, Agent-based Modelling
David Duncan (he/him)
Research Fellow
Ecology of Plants, Ecological Restoration, Design of Monitoring and Evaluation in Conservation, Open Science
David E. Uribe-Rivera (he/him)
PhD Candidate
Ecoogical Forecasting, Global Change Ecology, Process-explicit Models, Conservation Planning
David Wilkinson (he/him)
Research Fellow
Joint Species Distribution Modelling, Reproducible Research, Imperfect Detection, Ecological Modelling
Elliot Gould (they/them)
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant
Meta-research, Reproducibility and Transparency, Ecological Modelling, Structured Decision Making, Decision Analysis, Data Science & R
Emily McColl-Gausden (she/her)
PhD Candidate
Wildlife Monitoring, Imperfect Detection, Ecological Modelling, Environmental DNA
Islay McDougall (she/her)
Master’s Student
Species Distribution Modelling, Threatened Species Conservation, GIS
James Kelleher (he/him)
PhD student
Species Distribution Modelling, Conservation Technology, Remote Sensing, Bioacoustics
Jutta Beher (she/her)
PhD Candidate
decision-making, prioritisation, spatial analysis, marine connectivity
Kathryn Knights (she/her)
PhD Candidate, Research Assistant
Wildlife Monitoring, Survey Design, Mathematical Methods in Ecology
Kevin Newman (he/him)
PhD Candidate
Imperfect Detection, Quantitative Ecology, Australian Native Species
Kinjia Munkara-Murray (she/her)
Master’s Student
Indigenous Knowledges, Threatened Species and Communities, SDMs and Biogeography
Kylie Soanes (she/her)
Research Fellow
Urban Ecology, Threatened Species Conservation, Road Ecology, Artificial Habitats
Kylle Quinn (he/him)
Master’s Student
Conservation Ecology, Species Distribution Modelling, Environmental Ethics
Maddi Miller (she/they)
Research Fellow, Ecological Knowledges of Country
Indigenous Knowledge, Caring for Country, Cultural Landscapes, Human Nature Interaction
Matthew Cantele (he/him)
PhD Candidate
Computable General Equilibrium Models, Global Scenario Analysis, Integrated Assessment Modeling
Matthew Rees (he/him)
PhD Candidate
Spatiotemporal population dynamics, Optimal survey design, Hierarchical models, Predator-prey interactions
Md Anwar Hossain (he/him)
PhD Candidate
Quantitative Modelling, Ecophysiology, Climate Change, Conservation
Megan Good (she/her)
Research Fellow
Eucalypt Dynamics, Woodland Restoration, State and Transition models, Plant Ecology
Natalie Briscoe (she/her)
Research Fellow
Species Distribution Modelling, Ecophysiology, Threatened Species Conservation
Natasha Cadenhead (she/her)
Research Assistant, PhD Candidate
Sustainable Finance, Species Distribution Modelling, Population Viability & Scenario Analysis, Threatened Species
Rebecca Groenewegen (she/her)
PhD Candidate
Integrated Population Models, Conservation Planning, Optimising Monitoring, JAGS/NIMBLE
Saras Windecker (she/her)
Research Fellow
Species Distriubtion Modelling, Functional Traits, Forecasting, Reproducible Research
Teagan Goolmeer (She/her)
PhD Candidate
Indigenous Knowledge, Environmental Management, Structured Decision Making
Vishnu Ramachandran Menon (he/him)
PhD Candidate
Field Ecology, Predator-Human Conflicts, Occupancy Modelling
Affiliates
Alyson Stobo-Wilson (she/her)
Research Fellow
Biodiversity Indicators, Landscape Ecology, Conservation Ecology, Trophic Interactions
Casey Visintin (he/him)
Research Fellow
Wildlife Conservation, Quantitative Modelling, Biodiversity Sensitive Design, Urban Ecology
Cindy Hauser (she/her)
Research Fellow
Structured decision-making, management, prioritisation and optimisation, Expert-elicitation, Bayesian statistics and modelling, Optimal survey design
Esti Palma (she/her)
Former PhD Candidate
Biological Invasions, Plant Ecology, Functional Traits, Statistical Modelling
Gurutzeta Guillera Arroita (she/her)
Senior Researcher / Former QAEco PI
Statistical Ecology, Wildlife Monitoring Methods, Optimal Survey Design, Species Distribution Modelling
Hugh Davies (he/him)
Research Associate
Biodiversity Conservation, Feral Animals, Fire Management, Indigenous Engagement
Jack Pascoe (he/him)
Conservation and Research Manager
Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Bio Cultural Landscapes, Fire Ecology, Ecology
James Camac (he/him)
Research Fellow
Population Demographics, Fire Ecology, Biosecurity, Climate Change Impacts
Jane Elith (she/her)
Honorary Professor
Species Distribution Modelling, Conservation and Management, Dealing with Uncertainty, Advancing Data-Intensive Research
Katharine Senior (she/her)
Research Fellow
Fire Ecology, Mammology, Spatial Ecology and Modelling, Field Ecology
Laura Pollock (she/her)
Assistant Professor
Species Distribution Modelling, Functional Traits, Conservation Prioritisation
Naomi Indigo (she/her)
Research Assistant
Australian Wildlife Ecology, Conservation Biology, Two-way-science, Population Monitoring for Threat Mitigation and Management
Pia Lentini (she/her)
Research Fellow
Wildlife Management and Conservation, Urban Ecology, Behaviour Change, Conservation Planning
Reid Tingley (he/him)
Lecturer
Species Distribution Modelling and Population Dynamics, Statistical Methods and Monitoring Design, Macroecology, Environmental DNA
