ProfessorBrett Bryan

(he/him)

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Professor of Global Change, Environment and Society

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Professor of Global Change, Environment and Society
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • +61 3 924 68456 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Domain experience:

Food system sustainability
Natural capital and ecosystem services
Market-based policy, payment schemes
Agricultural and land systems
Complex systems analysis
Water resource policy and management
Environmental economics & policy
Bioenergy and biofuels
Carbon sequestration, emissions abatement
Land degradation and mitigation
Global climate change, mitigation, and adaptation
Conservation and natural resource management

Research methods:
Participatory systems modelling
Land-use change modelling and impacts
Spatial data science integrating environmental, economic, and social data
Computer programming and high-performance computing
Quantifying and valuing ecosystem services
Agricultural and forest systems modelling applications
Statistical modelling and analysis
Optimisation and machine learning
Remote sensing (data fusion, change detection, and prediction)
Policy design and evaluation
Decision analysis (cost-benefit, multi-criteria, portfolio, risk etc.)
Scenario specification and analysis including scenario discovery

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    LUTO2 Renewable Energy Module
    25 Nov 2025 - 31 Mar 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brett Bryan
    Monash University t / as ClimateWorks - $24,466.33
  • GRANT
    Omni-Layer Gaming Assembly (OLGA) for Collaborative Approaches to climate Adaptation
    18 Sep 2025 - 18 Sep 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Beaulieu-Brossard P,
    • Bryan B
    NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme - G8142 - $320,000.00
  • GRANT
    Spatial scenario modelling for regional climate adaptation with Goulburn Broken CMA and Climateworks Centre
    15 Jun 2025 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brett Bryan
    North East Catchment Management Authority - $120,000.00
  • GRANT
    Optimising Land-Use Futures for Sustainable Alternative Proteins in Australia's Circular Economy (REACH Trailblazer Scholarship)
    Monash University t / as ClimateWorks28 Feb 2025 - 28 Aug 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    Monash University t / as ClimateWorks - $30,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Climateworks - Third Project Agreement - Monash University - Under Strategic Framework Agreement LUTO 2.0 model
    9 Sep 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brett Bryan
    Monash University t / as ClimateWorks - $97,079.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Contract Research Services to CSIRO: Land Use Trade-Offs data and capability upgrades
    1 Apr 2024 - 30 Jun 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brett Bryan
    CSIRO - $60,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Climate Economic Modelling Services
    14 Oct 2023 - 14 Mar 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    CSIRO - C042537 - $90,909.09
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Land consolidation and food security in China - Part I
    15 Dec 2022 - 14 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brett Bryan
    Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction Group - $50,000.00
  • GRANT
    Student application - Embedding Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in conservation modelling
    30 Oct 2022 - 30 Jun 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Young AR,
    • Nicholson E,
    • Bryan B
    Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife - FNPW028CCG22 - $9,500.00
  • GRANT
    Nature futures: pathways to sustainable development goals for biodiversity
    29 Sep 2021 - 29 Sep 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wintle B,
    • Bryan B,
    • Kompas T,
    • Sonter L,
    • Sinnott R
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP210103460 - $21,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Land use futures modelling.
    5 Nov 2019 - 5 Nov 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Monash University t / as ClimateWorks - CONTR2019/02290 - $1,200,000.00
  • GRANT
    Local SDGs: A general framework for charting pathways to sustainability to future-proof local communities
    21 Jan 2019 - 21 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    NCCMA Grant - Research - North Central Catchment Management Authority - $15,000.00
  • GRANT
    Local SDGs: A general framework for charting pathways to sustainability to future-proof local communities
    21 Jan 2019 - 21 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Forrest District Community Group - $12,000.00
  • GRANT
    Local SDGs: A general framework for charting pathways to sustainability to future-proof local communities
    18 Sep 2018 - 30 Jun 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Ian Potter Foundation Grant - Research - 20190016 - $580,000.00
  • GRANT
    Planning for economic development and biodiversity on the Tiwi Islands
    1 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bryan B,
    • Nicholson E,
    • Murphy B,
    • Ayre M,
    • Elith J
    ARC Linkage - Projects - LP170100305 - $500,531.45
  • GRANT
    Predicting the ecological and economic outcomes of trade
    15 Mar 2017 - 31 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wintle B,
    • Kompas T,
    • Lentini P,
    • Burgman M,
    • Bryan B
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP170104795 - $60,000.00