Dr Fjalar de Haan

Research Fellow
Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood

Doctor of Philosophy, Erasumus University Rotterdam

Email: f.dehaan@deakin.edu.au
fjalar@fjalar.org

Twitter: @FjalarDeHaan

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Dr Fjalar de Haan has recently joined our team to work on the land-use futures project. He develops theory and other tools for understanding sustainability transitions and societal transformations. Modelling is one of his favourite tools and he would say that modelling helps to accelerate the interactions between theory and empirical work towards better understanding. Fjalar has an MSc in theoretical physics and a PhD in transitions research. Fjalar has been exploring the frontiers of transitions theory and modelling in a variety of contexts, as part of international, interdisciplinary teams, project-based with industry, and in curiosity-driven solo projects.

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Mr. Gurung is a Master’s degree student by research at Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University. He has worked in the field of nature conservation with WWF Nepal as a Program Officer for more than five years. His research is focused on climate change impacts on ecosystem services and livelihoods. Lil’s research is applied for adapting to climate change by mountain communities.    

 Jingyu Lin

Visiting PhD Student
Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood

Master of Marine Affair, Xiamen University, China

Email: linjingy@deakin.edu.au

Twitter: @Lexi_JingyuLIN

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Jingyu is a visiting PhD student from Coastal and Ocean Management Institute (COMI), Xiamen University. Her research interests include: LUCC and watershed modeling on water resources; Hydrological services flow in a nature-human system; and Socio-ecological resilience along coastal and marine areas. She has a Masters in Marine Affair and Bachelors in Geography.

 Dr. Ozge Geyik

She/Her

Turkey

Turkish (native), English (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), German (basic)

Postdoctoral research fellow, Research Training Group Sustainable Food Systems

University of Göttingen, Germany

Doctor of Philosophy, Deakin University

Email: ogeyik@deakin.edu.au

Twitter: @Geyik_Ozge

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Özge holds a BSc degree in industrial engineering from Boğaziçi University, Turkey, and a joint MSc degree in industrial ecology from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the University of Graz, Austria. Following a year of project coordination at TEMA Foundation, she completed her PhD in sustainable food systems at Deakin University, Australia (2021). She continued her research as a Mercator – IPC fellow, as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and Deakin University, Australia (current). She has a keen interest in interdisciplinary research with expertise in life cycle thinking, sustainability assessment, food systems, sustainable nutrition, and environmentally extended multi-regional input-output analysis.

Mohammad Abdullah Shaikh

He/Him

Pakistan - English, Urdu, Hindi, Turkish

PhD Candidate
Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood

Master of Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Istanbul Sehir University

eResearch Analyst, Intersect Australia

Email: mashai@deakin.edu.au

Twitter: @smabdullah1

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Abdullah Shaikh research is in environmental footprint analysis, downscaling planetary boundaries, and environmental impacts of agriculture and food trade. He uses advanced programming and computational techniques to carry out his research analysis. He is currently working as an eResearch Analyst at Intersect Australia. He has a wealth of experience in delivering training courses on multiple programming languages and software like R, Python, MATLAB, Excel, and SPSS. His areas of interest are machine learning, data analysis, visualisations, and statistics.

 Yanwen Wang

Visiting PhD Student
Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood

Master of Structural Geology, Chang`an University, China

Emails: wangyanw@deakin.edu.au
wensomone@163.com

Twitter: @Wendy76907822

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Yanwen Wang is a visiting PhD student from Wuhan University in China and is studying environmental science. Her research focuses on Grassland sustainability, Ecosystem services and Water resource management in Central Asia. She also performs assessment of the geochemical potential of mineral resources in Pamir and Tianshan metallogenic belt. Yanwen’s extensive studies have yielded multiple publications and she has prior work experience as an assistant engineer in Xi’an Centre of China Geological Survey.

  Huanbi Yue

Visiting HDR Student
Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood

Master of Nature Resources, Beijing Normal University

Emails: yuehu@deakin.edu.au
yuehuanbi@mail.bnu.edu.cn

Twitter: @HuanbiY

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Mr. Huanbi Yue is a visiting HDR student from Beijing Normal University, studying at Centre for Integrative Ecology from Nov 2018 to Apr 2020. He also holds a Bachelor of Agriculture from Beijing Forestry University. His research is focused on ambient air pollution and related health burden analysis at multiple scales. Huanbi’s study can be applied to air pollution-related Sustainable Development Goals, including emissions abatement, public health and environmental policy.

Prahlad Lamichhane

He/Him

Nepal - Nepali, English, German, Hindi

Doctoral Alumni, Planet A Sustainability Science

Doctor of Philosophy (Env Sciences), Deakin University, Australia

Master of Resources Engineering, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

Email: p.lamichhane@deakin.edu.au

Twitter: @pdlamichhane

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Dr Lamichhane is an environmentalist working at the science-policy-practice interface to enhance resilience of communities and organisations to environmental risks. He has extensive experience in leading regional development, risk mitigation, and climate change mainstreaming programs in South Asia and the Pacific. His expertise is in integrating natural and social science tools to underpin sustainability policies and practices at the local level. He is thematically interested in agriculture, food security, resilience, and sustainability.

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Katrina is a PhD candidate working in local sustainability. Her PhD research concerns localizing the Sustainable Development Goals and has been working with a community in regional Victoria. Her work spans community engagement, scenario development, and complex modelling. She will soon be moving to Canberra to start a postdoc with CSIRO in socio-ecological modelling.

Dr Zhifeng Liu

Associate Professor
Center for Human-Environment System Sustainability
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology
College of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science
Beijing Normal University, China

Doctor of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University

Email: zhifeng.liu@bnu.edu.cn

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Dr. Liu is a visiting academic at Deakin and is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Geographical Science in Beijing Normal University, China. His research interests include landscape sustainability, urban sustainability and geodesign. Currently, he is focusing on urban sustainability in drylands.

Henry Mance Custodio

PhD Candidate
Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood

Associate Research Fellow, East-West Center - University of Hawaii

Master of International Development,
University of the Philippines and Nagoya University, Japan

Email: hcustodio@deakin.edu.au

Henry is a PhD candidate at Deakin University working on global food sustainability and its linkages with the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically on how it relates to Human Development Index, Greenhouse Gas, and agricultural development. His general research experience and interests are on food-poverty-environment nexus in developing countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia, specifically sustainable and ecological agriculture and food security.

 Marco Calderón-Loor

PhD Candidate
Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood

Master of Environment, University of Melbourne

Email: mcalderonloor@deakin.edu.au

Twitter: @Mioash

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Marco Calderón is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University. His research is focused on the impacts of global change on land use dynamics in Australia. In his PHD project Marco is using machine and deep learning approaches for predicting land change under different scenarios in Australia and its impacts on biodiversity.

Dr Enayat A. Moallemi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Alfred Deakin

Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Melbourne

Email: e.moallemi@deakin.edu.au

Twitter: @EnayatMoallemi

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Dr Enayat A. Moallemi is a Research Fellow at Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University. His research is focused on computational and participatory approaches for modelling socio-ecological systems under deep uncertainty. Enayat's research is applied to a range of areas — including global change, the SDGs, water-food-land nexus, energy transitions — for informing robust decision making.

Reihaneh Bandari

She/Her

Iran - Persian, English

PhD Candidate
School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology

Deakin University, Burwood

Master of Water Resources Engineering, University of Tehran

Email: rbandari@deakin.edu.au

Twitter: @BandariReihaneh

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Reihaneh Bandari is a PhD student at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences of Deakin University in Australia. Her research interests are sustainability science, systems modelling, and water resources management. She studied sustainability science at the Deakin University's Centre for Integrative Ecology (CIE), focusing on computational and participatory approaches for modelling socioeconomic and environmental Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under future uncertainties at the local level.

Md Shakil Khan

He/Him

Bangladesh - English, Bengali

PhD Candidate
Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood

Master of Information Technology, RMIT

Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning, KUET, Bangladesh

Email: md.khan@deakin.edu.au

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MdShaki53853470

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Shakil is an experienced engineer in building Automated process flows, Spatial Sensor Technology, Automated Data collection, Spatial Data Analysis and making predictions using Machine learning techniques with more than 8 years of Experience. A firm believer in both quantitative and qualitative techniques of analysis with a keen interest in both statistical and machine learning methods of learning, prediction and analysis.

Future land use is highly uncertain based on economic developments, climate change, population growth, technological advancement, and their impacts. Computer-based simulation models have been used to generate a number of scenarios to show these uncertain futures. However, current models are complex, and exploring the whole scenario space considering uncertainties takes untenable amounts of time. My research tries to develop fit-for-purpose land-use models by integrating machine learning within an exploratory modelling framework to address the uncertainties through rapid scenario generation and understand the robustness of policy interventions for future land use and sustainability.

I like hiking and playing badminton.

My major is sustainable ecology. I focus on the interactions between environment and economy by using multiply economic models. I am leading a two-year visiting project in Deakin University, and targets on optimising crop production under climate risks.