David Bowman

Prof David Bowman holds a research chair in Pyrogeography and Fire Science in the School of Natural Sciences, and is the Director of the transdisciplinary Fire Centre at UTAS. He is a world-renowned wildland fire scientist for his development of the transdisciplinary field of pyrogeography, that provides an understanding of landscape burning that unites human, physical and biological dimensions of fire from the geological past into the future and spanning local to global geographic scales. Prof Bowman is a recognised thought leader and has contributed to government inquiries such as the Bushfire Royal Commission and Senate Inquiry into the Tasmania Wilderness fires.