Work
For years my office was a rainforest. I tracked possums and birds across the Australian Wet Tropics, and my models helped decide which species received legal protection. Research taught me to design the measurement first, state every assumption and deliver under real constraints. I hold my AI work to the same standard: if it can't be evaluated, it can't be trusted.
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2026 to now
AI engineer
Officeworks · Australia
I build production AI systems for a national retailer. I built the evaluation system for a customer-facing AI assistant, the base of a product knowledge graph, and agent tooling other teams adopted.
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2024 to 2026
Postdoctoral fellow
James Cook University · Australia
I worked on the endangered spectacled flying fox, which lost about a third of its population to a single heatwave in 2018. I modelled roost microclimates to forecast high-risk heat events and to guide interventions before the next one.
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2020 to 2024
PhD candidate, Quantitative Ecology
James Cook University · Australia · Cum laude
I studied climate change impacts on rainforest birds and possums in the Australian Wet Tropics. My hierarchical Bayesian models on three decades of monitoring explained the declines, and the results fed formal protection nominations.
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2024
Research assistant, Data Analytics
University of Melbourne · Australia
I built reproducible pipelines to clean, validate and integrate multi-source data. The work covered about 27,000 samples across 140 years of Australian museum records, delivered as analysis-ready datasets and plain summaries.
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2019
Research assistant
James Cook University · Australia
I ran standardised vertebrate surveys across the Wet Tropics, part of the long-term monitoring program that later powered my doctoral models.
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2017 to 2018
Research and conservation leader
Kaa-Iya National Park · Bolivia
I led the park's research and conservation programs. The work covered big cat monitoring, supported by the University of Florida and the Wildlife Conservation Society, and ranger training in biodiversity monitoring.
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2016 to 2017
Head biologist
CONAF, Puyehue National Park · Chile
This was my first professional data role. I ran the park's field programs and population monitoring, trained rangers and published my first paper on a mass bamboo flowering event.
Volunteering and professional development
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2019 to 2025
Vertebrate biodiversity monitoring in the Australian Wet Tropics
James Cook University · Australia
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2024
Biodiversity consulting
Wet Tropics Management Authority · Australia
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2024
Expert workshop participation: Improving the resilience of the Wet Tropics bioregion
Wet Tropics Management Authority · Australia
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2020 to 2022
Training of local rangers in biodiversity monitoring
Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Services · Australia
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2022
International Ecology School
Thailand
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2020
Indigenous rangers training in biodiversity monitoring, data collection, curation, and interpretation
Abriculture: indigenous environmental organisation · Australia
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2018 to 2019
Yellow-tailed woolly monkey Lagothrix flavicauda survey, mammals’ inventory and community-based conservation work in the Peruvian Cloud Forest and the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest
Neotropical Primate Conservation and Lush Cosmetics · Peru
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2018
Breeding bird survey at Fairburn Ings Natural Reserve
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds · UK
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2018
Indigenous community engagement for the conservation of the critically endangered Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
Neotropical Primate Conservation · Peru
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2017
Annual population monitoring of the Darwin's Frog (Rhinoderma darwinii)
Andres Bello University · Chile
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2017
Big cats monitoring in Kaa-Iya National Park
Bolivian National Parks, with the support of University of Florida and WCS · Bolivia
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2017
Training of local rangers in biodiversity monitoring
Bolivian National Parks · Bolivia
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2016 to 2017
Exploration and description of Andean flora and fauna in Puyehue National Park
CONAF · Chile
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2016 to 2017
Training of local rangers in biodiversity monitoring, community engagement, and science communication
CONAF, Chilean National Parks · Chile
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2016
Population monitoring of black rats, population and breeding monitoring of cormorants and Cory's shearwater
SPEA Life+ Berlengas · Portugal
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2016
Population monitoring of amphibians and semi-aquatic mammals
University of Salamanca · Spain
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2016
Population dynamics of Balearic lacertids
University of Salamanca · Spain
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2015
Recovery and release of endemic Iberian fauna
AMUS · Spain
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2014 to 2015
Rescue and rehabilitation of primates
RAINFER · Spain
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2013
Animal care and wildlife rehabilitation and release
Zoo de Santillana Foundation · Spain
Media engagement
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Global warming drives Wet Tropics possum species from their mountain homes
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Climate change drives possums from high altitude homes in Queensland's wet tropics
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It’s Easy to Hate Selfies. But Can They Also Be a Force for Good?
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Woody bamboo flowering in Puyehue National Park
Grants and awards
Grants
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Skyrail Foundation
Research grant and top-up: “Determinants of spatial variation in population density in a tropical folivore community”.
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Wet Tropics Management Authority
Climate Action Grant: “Why are Ringtail Possums declining in the Australian Wet Tropics?”.
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James Cook University
PhD scholarship over 3.5 years: “Determinants of spatial variation in population density in a tropical folivore community”.
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University of Salamanca
Master’s scholarship: “Implementation of GIS and species distribution models on studies of niche marginality of threatened plants”.
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University of Salamanca
Four undergraduate scholarships, €6,000 a year.
Awards
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Best talk
Zoology and Ecology North Queensland, Mission Beach: “Songs of disappearance: Rainforest Montane Birds and Climate Change”.
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Second best presentation
TESS conference, Palm Cove: “Possums in Peril: The Urgent Need to Address Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Montane Species”.
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Best post-graduate presentation
Conference Talk Skill Workshop, ESA-SCBO conference, Wollongong: “Predicted alteration of vertebrate communities in response to climate-induced elevational shifts”.
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People’s Choice award
Zoology and Ecology North Queensland, Mission Beach: “Climate change threatens the future of rainforest ringtail possums”.
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Second best talk
Centre for Tropical, Environmental and Sustainability Science annual conference: “Predicting species abundance by implementing the ecological niche theory”.