Marine Hub researcher Professor Corey Bradshaw has won the Life Sciences and Biological Sciences category of the inaugural Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Awards, presented by Senator Kim Carr, Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

Professor Bradshaw is Director of Ecological Modelling at the University's Environment Institute and holds a joint position with the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). He is a conservation biologist who uses mathematical modelling to understand the complex interactions between plant and animal species within an ecosystem.

His work with the Marine Biodiversity Hub is mainly in the supervision of the Prediction & Surrogacy Programs’ post-doctoral fellow, Dr Camille Mellin, who is leading cutting-edge modelling endeavours.

(The Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Awards have been introduced this year by Universities Australia and Elsevier and sponsored by The Australian.)

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