Our People

 

Meet our People

Dr Rebecca Pirzl

Group Leader

The Decisions and Strategic Planning Group is an interdisciplinary group of biophysical, social and economic scientists harnessing decision science, systems thinking and participatory approaches to accelerate our response to sustainability challenges.

 

Contact: rebecca.pirzl@csiro.au

Yiheyis Maru

Team Leader

The Adaptation Pathways and Social Transitions Team helps diverse national and international stakeholders navigate uncertainty and disruption from climate change, extreme events and other shocks and build robust pathways for sustainable futures.

 

Contact: yiheyis.maru@csiro.au

Team Leader

The Conservation Decisions Team works with ecological decision makers to define their decision context and help create solutions that maximise the ecological and resource outcomes that can be created with limited time, money, and areas of land and sea.

 

Contact: josie.carwardine@csiro.au

Erin Bohensky

Team Leader

The Livelihoods and Adaptive Development Team helps build individual, community and institutional capacity to transform in the face of change such as climate change and disasters, cross-border natural resource management and pandemics.

 

Contact:  erin.bohensky@csiro.au

Peci (Pethie) Lyons

Team Leader

The Collaborative and Indigenous Science Team advances collaborative and Indigenous-led science partnerships that support First Peoples to realise their aspirations for economic participation and wellbeing.

 

Contact: ilisapeci.lyons@csiro.au

Nicky Grigg

Team Leader

The Environmental Futures Team  co-develops with partners a shared, systems understanding of how decisions are made, what knowledge is considered to be relevant to those decisions, what values underpin decision-making goals, and the institutional and informal rules that enable decision making processes.

 

Contact: nicky.grigg@csiro.au

Team Leader

The Resource Planning and Optimisation Team provides decision support tools to government and industry making investments and regulatory changes in agriculture, transport and water infrastructure. These investments improve access to key regional resources and  markets, and increase rural prosperity and resilience under unforeseen events.

 

Contact: andrew.higgins@csiro.au

Senior Experimental Scientist

Research Technician

Research Scientist

Caroline Bruce

Senior Research Technician

Research Scientist

Lucy Carter

Senior Research Scientist

Principal Research Scientist

Mike Dunlop

Senior Research Scientist

Postdoctoral Fellow

Portrait Michaela Cosijn

Michaela Cosijn

Senior Experimental Scientist

Senior Engineer

Research Technician

Senior Research Scientist

Liana Williams

Senior Research Scientist

Zahid Islam

Postdoctoral Fellow

Senior Experimental Scientist

Senior Experimental Scientist

Sam Nicol

Research Scientist

Senior Research Scientist

Principal Research Consultant

Research Scientist

Research Technician

Research Technician

Research Scientist

Research Technician

Principal Research Scientist

Portrait of Emma Woodward

Senior Research Scientist

Research Technician

Meet our Affiliates and Students


Portrait of Brian Walker

Honorary Fellow

Stephanie Beaupark

PhD Student

 

Chris Mesiku

Visiting Scientist

Cath Moran

Visiting Scientist


Kim Zoeller

CERC Fellow

Claudia Munera Roldan

CERC Fellow

 

Sabrina Chakori

CERC Fellow

Henry Dixon

Visiting Scientist

 

Nga-Yee Lai

PhD Student


Christopher Cvitanovic

Visiting Scientist

 

Sandra Lavorel Smith

Visiting Scientist

Juan Mula Laguna

PhD Student

Luz Pascal

Honours Student

Lola Visschers

Volunteer Fellow

Cory Tiger

Volunteer Fellow

Hua Shao

PhD Student

Corey Jamieson

Vacation Student

Roger Street

Visiting Scientist