I am an Early Career Australian Research Council Fellow at Flinders University and Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. Much of my research focuses on temperate kelp forest ecosystems, particularly applications of ecological genomics to restoration. I have led restoration projects in collaboration with industry on the east (www.operationcrayweed.com) and west (www.greengravel.org) coasts of Australia, with a focus on the genomics of key seaweed species and how best to conserve genetic diversity. I am also leading the development of a series of online webtools to aid decision-making in coastal restoration, assisted gene flow strategies and aquaculture (www.reefadapt.org). I am an editor of Restoration Ecology and a coordinator of the Green Gravel Action Group for kelp forest restoration.

I work with a large team of collaborators and currently supervise multiple student around Australia (four PhD and two honours students based across WA, SA, Vic and NSW) and one Masters student in Norway as part of the GecoKelp project (https://www.gecokelp.org), a multi-institutional project linking kelp genes to ecosystem processes, funded by the Norwegian Research Council.