Jamie is a fire scientist in the FLARE Wildfire Research Group within the School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Jamie’s research focuses on different aspects of fire behaviour, and the impacts of fuel management on vegetation communities. She has a particular interest in the role of vegetation as fuel and how it affects landscape-scale flammability.

Sarita Chaulagain is a PhD candidate in the School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the ecological responses of understory plant communities to different fire regimes in temperate forests of southeastern Australia. By examining understory plant response to fire, her work aims to inform adaptive fire management strategies that support biodiversity conservation in fire-prone landscapes.

Tim is a wildlife ecologist specialising in disturbance ecology, invasive species and predator-prey ecology, with a particular focus on fire ecology. In his current role, he is investigating the effects of fire regimes, wildfires, prescribed burning and other factors on threatened fauna in Western Australia, primarily in the south-west forests.

Tom is a Research Associate at the Center for Ecosystem Science, UNSW, and the NSW Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre. He completed his PhD in 2023 on the consequences of changing fire regimes for threatened plant species and vegetation and is involved in ongoing projects on Critically Endangered species and ecosystems. Tom’s research interests include plant conservation and fire ecology, with a focus on using plant ecology to support conservation and policy development. In his current role, Tom is working on fire management of threatened ecological communities.

Michael McCarthy is a Professor at the University of Melbourne. He likes nature, mathematics, cricket, running, and making things with wood. His research only features the first two of these.

Sarah is a research fellow in forest restoration with a background in fire science. She is particularly interested in answering questions around the impact of future fire regimes on our forests and uses fire prediction and ecological models to explore this space.

Post-doctoral researcher focusing on conservation of rare bird species. Based now in the Bavarian Forest and working on the Western Capercaillie. But still connected to conservation of threatened mallee birds, with a focus on fire management and climate change mitigation.

Grace is a PhD candidate interested in studying the effects of fire severity on animals and their habitat. She wants to understand how severity impacts faunal abundance and what traits influence species’ resilience following a severe burn. She is also broadly interested in learning how fire influences animal behavioral plasticity, movement, and predation. Grace graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelors in wildlife biology in 2021. After graduating, she worked for the forest service in California tracking spotted owls and northern goshawks. Then she worked in Oregon recording song birds in the Steens mountain wilderness.

Lily Wheeler is a PhD candidate in the FLARE Wildfire Research group in the School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on investigating the effect fire regimes and a changing climate have on biodiversity with a focus on mammal species. Her work brings together fire regime modelling with demographic modelling techniques to simulate population change over time.