Full-time writer and freelance journalist. Adjunct professor in creative writing and literature at James Cook University.
Author of two textbooks and 6 novels, including The Abrupt Physics of Dying (2015), shortlisted for the CWA Creasy Prize, and The Forcing (2023), about a near-future affected by climate change. New non-fiction book, War for the Reef, out in 2024 with Affirm Press.
CEO of the Australian Institute of Marine Science from 2017-2023. Visiting Professor, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK. Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia. PhD in Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London. MSc Engineering Hydrology, Imperial College London. B.A.Sc Geological Engineering University of British Columbia, Canada.