Dr Hamish Clarke is a Senior Research Fellow at School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health at University of Wollongong, Australia. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires (CERMB) at UOW since 2016. I am leading a project on optimising cost-effective prescribed burning as part of the NSW Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub. Before that I led a similar project with the Bushfires and Natural Hazards CRC. I work partly out of the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE) at Western Sydney University.