I am botanical epidemiologist and ecologist specialising in simulation modelling and geographic information systems (GIS). Currently I’m an Associate Professor in the in the Centre for Crop Health at the University of Southern Queensland. At USQ I lead a research group that studies plant disease modelling, integrated disease management and pathogen population biology for broadacre crops. I have expertise in R programming and have developed several tools to help gather weather and climate data and study pathogen populations using R.
Along with Emerson Del Ponte, I co-founded Open Plant Pathology, a community of plant pathology, plant disease epidemiology, pathogen population biology, microbial ecology and genomics researchers that supports the several forms of open science practices in plant pathology.
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He/Him
Education ¶
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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2009 - Ph.D. of Plant Pathology in Epidemiology and Ecology of Plant Pathogens studying with Dr Karen Garrett
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2007 - Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
- B.S. of Agronomy in Soil and Crop Management
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University of Southern Queensland
- Associate Professor, Field Crops Pathology from Jan 2016 to present
International Rice Research Institute
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Scientist I, Plant Disease Management Specialist from December 2012 to December 2015
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Botanical Modelling and GIS from January 2011 to November 2012
- Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Modelling Wheat Fusarium Head Blight from January 2010 to January 2011
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- Co-founder
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Reproducibility Editor, 03/2020 to present
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Associate Editor for Epidemiology, 2017 to present