About
I am a bioeconomic modeller with botanical epidemiology and ecology training who specialises in agricultural simulation modelling and geographic information systems (GIS). I have expertise in R programming and have developed several tools to help gather weather and climate data and study pathogen populations using R and have also recently started using Julia too.
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.
Web
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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
- 2000 - B.S. of Agronomy in Soil and Crop Management
Employment
State of Western Australia Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
- Senior Research Scientist, Bioeconomic Modeller from Jan 2021 to Current
University of Southern Queensland
- Associate Professor, Field Crops Pathology from Jan 2016 to Jan 2021
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
Service
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Statistical Software Peer Review Associate Editor
- Co-founder
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Reproducibility Editor, 03/2020 to present
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Associate Editor for Epidemiology, 2017 to 2020