Leadership Team
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Associate Professor Tiziana Ferrero-Regis
Lead, Sustainable Production and Consumption Theme
Background I worked in Milan across many fields of the creative industries, from advertising to production manager at Vogue Italy in Milan and as a freelance writer. I hold a PhD from Griffith University on the historical imagination in Italian cinema. My research sits at the intersection of place, culture, and...
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Professor Amisha Mehta
Lead, Resilient Communities and Infrastructure Theme
Professor Amisha Mehta specialises in risk and crisis communication and trust at the QUT Business School. She applies this expertise in emerging industries like hydrogen energy and commercial drones and in the context of corporate, health, and natural hazard emergencies. Amisha’s research has been translated into new national policy via...
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Professor Patrick Moss
Lead, Climate Adaption and Mitigation Theme
Patrick Moss is a Professor in Physical Geography and Head of School in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Science. His research is related to an improved understanding of how Australian and Southeast Asian landscapes have responded to climatic alterations and/or human impacts. This research has focused on how past...
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Dr Annah Piggott-McKellar
Lead, Early and Mid-Career Researcher Development
I am a human geographer by training. My research interests centre on human-environment interactions, specifically how populations are impacted by, and adapting to a changing climate, specifically through planned relocation and (im)mobilities. I have experience working on projects in the Asia-Pacific region including Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, and Maldives on a...
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Professor Jonathan Rhodes
Director
Jonathan works on identifying environmental policy and planning solutions to global, regional, and national biodiversity conservation and sustainability challenges. He tackles these problems using spatial mathematical models and decision analysis and draws on his expertise in ecology, mathematics, and economics to integrate across disciplines. Jonathan is particularly interested in research...
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Professor Tim Schork
Lead, Cross-Theme Integration
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Dr Ayesha Tulloch
Lead, Ecosystems and Biodiversity Conservation Theme
Dr Ayesha Tulloch is a conservation decision scientist with a background in ecology and a passion for building knowledge and tools to address the world’s most pressing challenges of recovering biodiversity whilst maintaining human well-being in human-modified landscapes. It is important to Ayesha that her research is applicable and accessible...
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Julie Mitchell
Centre Manager
I bring over 25 years of experience in operational management across industry, academia, and the public sectors. My expertise spans diverse industries, with a focus on delivering high-impact results through effective project management, strategic planning, and stakeholder engagement. Throughout my career, I have successfully driven complex initiatives in academic, institutional,...