I currently am employed as a professor of biometry and agricultural data analytics at Curtin University with the Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) in the Curtin Biometry and Agricultural Data Analytics (CBADA) group, providing technical leadership for the Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI) project. I have training in botanical epidemiology and ecology training and specialise in biometry, 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.
Pronouns
He/Him/His
CV
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
- Professor of Biometry and Agricultural Data Analytics with Centre for Crop and Disease Management
State of Western Australia Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
- Principal Research Scientist, Bioeconomic Modeller from Jan 2021 to Jan 2024
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