Prof. Trent Penman

Prof. Trent Penman

Trent is a fire risk modeller interested in all aspects of bushfire management. His work covers a range of theoretical and applied aspects of bushfire behaviour and management. The main focus of his research is optimising management expenditure to reduce the risk of...
Assoc Prof. Lauren Bennett

Assoc Prof. Lauren Bennett

Lauren is a terrestrial ecologist with a focus on processes in Australian ecosystems. Her research involves a diversity of topics including carbon and nutrient cycling, vegetation quality and carbon assessment, plant regeneration strategies, plant interactions with...
Dr. Matthew Swan

Dr. Matthew Swan

Matt is an ecologist based at the University of Melbourne Creswick Campus. His research is focused on how fire regimes affect the structure and function of ecosystems and the implications of this for plants and animals (but mostly animals). He is also interested in...
Dr. Hamish Clarke

Dr. Hamish Clarke

Prior to joining FLARE, Hamish was Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires at the University of Wollongong and a Work Package leader in the Eureka Prize-winning NSW Bushfire Hub. He has also held adjunct positions at the Hawkesbury...
Dr. Alex Filkov

Dr. Alex Filkov

Alex is a combustion scientist. He received his PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences from Tomsk State University, Russia. His early research at Tomsk State University focused on developing a new deterministic and probabilistic model to predict forest, grass and...