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Dr Paul Johnston BSc (Hons) ANU PhD ANU  Senior Research Fellow

School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
M002, 35 Stirling Highway
Crawley, Western Australia, 6009

Tel: +61 8 6488 2763

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I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Complex Systems Modelling group in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Western Australia.

My current research is funded by the Australian Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre.

We are developing a bushfire spread simulator for real time prediction of bushfire. Recent presentations of our work are listed below.

Efficient simulation of wildfire spread on an irregular grid (to appear in International Journal of Wildland Fire)

Simulating the effect of varying fuel load in forest fires – poster presented at Australasian Fire Agencies Council annual meeting, Hobart, September 2007

Coupling bushfire spread with a sensor network detection system model – lecture presented at Australasian Fire Agencies Council annual meeting, Hobart, September 2007

BushfireCRC fire simulation model– lecture presented at Australasian Fire Agencies Council annual meeting, Hobart, September 2007

A heat transfer simulation model for wildfire spread (Abstract) (Full paper)

Overview of bushfire spread simulation systems – report for the Australian Bushfire CRC

A heat transfer simulation model for wildfire spread – poster presented at the Australian Bushfire CRC annual conference, Wollongong, July 2006

Wangary Bushfire Simulation
Bushfire CRC Presentation (July 2006)

My previous research was on the adjustment of the Earth in response to removal of large ice sheets covering northern Europe, Canada and Antarctica at the end of the last ice age. I have degrees in Mathematics and Geophysics from the Australian National University. I have previously held postdoctoral appointments at Free University of Amsterdam and the Australian National University. I have also worked in the software industry for LogicaCMG on several projects. I have a range of interests in efficient computation of numerical solutions to spatial mathematical problems. These problems include bushfire spread, disease spread, rail traffic scheduling and inference of geophysical properties.

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