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
Orcid identifier0000-0003-4834-5641 (opens in a new tab)
- Deakin Distinguished Professor and Professor of Global Change, Environment and SocietyFaculty 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
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 RESEARCHLUTO2 Renewable Energy Module25 Nov 2025 - 31 Mar 2026People funded by this grant:
- Brett Bryan
- GRANTOmni-Layer Gaming Assembly (OLGA) for Collaborative Approaches to climate Adaptation18 Sep 2025 - 18 Sep 2027People funded by this grant:
- Beaulieu-Brossard P,
- Bryan B
- GRANTSpatial scenario modelling for regional climate adaptation with Goulburn Broken CMA and Climateworks Centre15 Jun 2025 - 31 Dec 2026People funded by this grant:
- Brett Bryan
- GRANTOptimising Land-Use Futures for Sustainable Alternative Proteins in Australia's Circular Economy (REACH Trailblazer Scholarship)Monash University t / as ClimateWorks28 Feb 2025 - 28 Aug 2028People funded by this grant:
- Bryan B,
- Hadjikakou M,
- Cardilini A,
- Peters L
- CONTRACT RESEARCHClimateworks - Third Project Agreement - Monash University - Under Strategic Framework Agreement LUTO 2.0 model9 Sep 2024 - 31 Dec 2025People funded by this grant:
- Brett Bryan
- COLLABORATIVE GRANTContract Research Services to CSIRO: Land Use Trade-Offs data and capability upgrades1 Apr 2024 - 30 Jun 2025People funded by this grant:
- Brett Bryan
- CONTRACT RESEARCHClimate Economic Modelling Services14 Oct 2023 - 14 Mar 2024People funded by this grant:
- Bryan B,
- Hadjikakou M,
- Wang J
- CONTRACT RESEARCHLand consolidation and food security in China - Part I15 Dec 2022 - 14 Dec 2023People funded by this grant:
- Brett Bryan
- GRANTStudent application - Embedding Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in conservation modelling30 Oct 2022 - 30 Jun 2023People funded by this grant:
- Young AR,
- Nicholson E,
- Bryan B
- GRANTNature futures: pathways to sustainable development goals for biodiversity29 Sep 2021 - 29 Sep 2024People funded by this grant:
- Wintle B,
- Bryan B,
- Kompas T,
- Sonter L,
- Sinnott R
- CONTRACT RESEARCHLand use futures modelling.5 Nov 2019 - 5 Nov 2022People funded by this grant:
- Bryan B,
- Hadjikakou M,
- Nazari A,
- Thiruvady D
- GRANTPlanning for economic development and biodiversity on the Tiwi Islands1 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2021People funded by this grant:
- Bryan B,
- Nicholson E,
- Murphy B,
- Ayre M,
- Elith J
- GRANTPredicting the ecological and economic outcomes of trade15 Mar 2017 - 31 Dec 2019People funded by this grant:
- Wintle B,
- Kompas T,
- Lentini P,
- Burgman M,
- Bryan B