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Professor Kerrie Wilson
Deputy Director Career Development and Mentoring, Chief Investigator
Professor Kerrie Wilson is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability Strategy) and previously the Executive Director of the Institute for Future Environments at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Before joining QUT in January 2019, Kerrie was the Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and an...
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Professor Michael Bode
Theme 3 Lead, Chief Investigator
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Dr Kate Helmstedt
Chief Investigator
Dr Helmstedt's research expertise is in using operations research to guide smart decision making for natural resource and environmental management with the ultimate goal of guiding future management decisions towards cost-efficiency, transparency and defensibility. Ecological systems are incredibly complex, and changing how those systems interact and evolve can have unexpected implications....
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Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen
Chief Investigator
Background Kerrie Mengersen graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours Class 1), majoring in Mathematics (Statistics) and Computing, and received her PhD in Mathematical Statistics in 1989 from the University of New England, New South Wales. Her PhD thesis was on the topic of ranking and selection under...
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Professor Matthew Dunbabin
Chief Investigator
Matthew conducts transdisciplinary research into environmental robotics focusing on advanced perception-to-action solutions with application to large-scale management and monitoring challenges. He currently holds the position of Professor at the Queensland University of Technology as well as Chief Investigator at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (ACRV). An experienced researcher and...
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Professor Felipe Gonzalez
Chief Investigator
Dr Gonzalez is an Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics (EER) and a CI in QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR), Engineering Faculty with a passion for innovation in the fields of aerial robotics and automation. Gonzalez interest is in creating aerial robots, drones or UAVs that possess a high...
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Distinguished Professor Peter Corke
Chief Investigator
Peter is a robotics researcher and educator. He is the distinguished professor of robotic vision at Queensland University of Technology, and was director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision (2014-2020). His research is concerned with robotic perception using vision and force, dynamics and control, and the application of robots...
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Dr Matthew Adams
Chief Investigator
Dr Adams 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...
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Dr Justine Shaw
Senior Research Fellow
Justine Shaw is a Senior Research Fellow in Antarctic and island conservation science at Queensland University of Technology. She leads research on Antarctic biodiversity and island ecosystems, including invasive species impacts and management. Justine uses decision science to work collaboratively with conservation managers and policy makers. Her research has impact,...
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Dr Juan Sandino
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Juan is a research engineer with experience in multidisciplinary projects and designing autonomous prototypes and software, especially in precision agriculture, biosecurity, and autonomous search and rescue (SAR) onboard small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). His primary interests comprise autonomous small UAV decision-making, machine learning and computer vision for UAV remote sensing,...
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Dr Jasmine Lee
Associate Investigator
Jasmine is a conservation biologist and quantitative ecologist. Her work focuses on understanding biological vulnerability to climate change, predicting how species and ecosystems will respond to climate change impacts, bio-physical modelling of the effects of climate change, and determining how we best plan for a brighter future for Antarctic and...
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Oakes Holland
PhD Student
Oakes project is investigating the threat of marine invasive species reaching the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica in a warming world. To date there are no documented successful invasions in this region of the world, owing much to the physical characteristics of the Southern Ocean – it’s too cold, too remote,...
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Joanna Burrows
PhD Student
Joanna Burrows (née Horsfall) is a PhD candidate at QUT, supervised by Professor Kerrie Wilson and Professor Michael Bode. Jo is interested in environmental policy, impact evaluation, and conservation decision-making. Her PhD research examines the role and performance of Antarctica’s protected areas. Formerly a high school teacher, Jo has a...
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Grace Heron
PhD Student
Grace Heron is currently a PhD student under Dr Kate Helmstedt researching complex data and Value of Information theory for smarter management of complex ecosystems. Grace was a Research Assistant to Dr Erin Peterson at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers. Recently graduated mathematics and engineering student from QUT. Grace took part...
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Charlotte Patterson
PhD Student
Charlotte Patterson is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr Justine Shaw and Dr Kate Helmstedt. Her PhD project seeks to model the distribution and future trajectories of under-represented taxa in Antarctica’s ice-free areas, exploring the challenges and management opportunities presented through these modern predictive modelling techniques. Charlotte has...
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Larissa Lubiana Botelho
PhD Student
Larissa is a Ph.D. candidate at QUT, and her main research area is modelling complex systems applied to ecology and environmental policy. In her Ph.D., supervised by Prof. Michael Bode, Dr Kate Helmstedt and Prof. Kerrie Wilson, she is undertaking her research as part of the ARC Special Research Initiative...
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Kita Williams
PhD Student
Kita is a PhD student researching ecological interactions in terrestrial ecosystems of the sub-Antarctic islands. She is interested in the unique environments and invertebrate biodiversity of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic, biosecurity, and conservation under climate change. Kita’s background is in marine biology, having previously studied the cell biology of juvenile...
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Xiang Zhao
Masters Student
Xiang Zhao is a research student working on applying systematic conservation planning tools on management and development of Antarctica’s Protected Areas. He worked on a project protecting the giant panda’s habitats from degradation caused by free-ranging livestock in three IBAs (Wanglang, Xuebaoding, and Xiaohegou Nature Reserves) located in Southwest China,...