Dr Jasper Montana is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU. Jasper is also an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, where he was previously a Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography and Research Fellow. Jasper holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge (King's College); an MSc in Science, Technology, Medicine and Society awarded jointly by Imperial College, London, and University College London; and a BSc in Zoology and a Diploma in Creative Arts (Media) from the University of Melbourne. Jasper has previously been a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Jasper Montana leads the People-Nature Relations Initiative funded by the ANU Futures Scheme. www.people-nature.com

BSc Hons (Zoology / Marine Biology), Dip Creative Arts (Media Arts), MSc Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, PhD (Geography), AFLS, FHEA

Dr Montana's research examines and experiments with the workings of environmental expertise, including relationships between science and policy, theories and practices of inter- and transdisciplinary research, and the role of knowledge, norms, numbers and technologies in environmental governance. He has a particular interest in biodiversity loss, nature conservation and nature restoration as complex societal challenges requiring innovative actions and is inspired by efforts to reconnect people with nature in everyday life.