Luciana Porfirio

Luciana is currently a OCE postdoctoral fellow at the CSIRO, Oceans & Atmosphere Business Unit. She is working with the CSIRO Integrated Assessment Model, finding mechanisms to achieve the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, with focus on Food Security/Sovereignty.
Previous to CSIRO, in 2011 Luciana became a postdoctoral fellow in the Landscapes and Policy hub, as part of the National Environmental Research Program. Luciana was based at the Australian National University and was part of the BioRegional (subnational) Futures team that applyed a range of tools and techniques to study characteristics of landscape ecosystems and the patterns of diversity under scenarios of natural and human induced change.
Back in 2006 Luciana moved to Australia where she worked as research assistant of Professor Brendan Mackey at the Australian National University (ANU). The same year she obtained a PhD scholarship from the ANU to develop spatial models for the quantification of ecosystem services across the Australian Capital Region under the supervision of Professors Will Steffen, Mike Hutchinson and Brendan Mackey at the Fenner School of Environment & Society.