Academics and researchers in the Wana research group.
Academic staff
A/Prof Luba Volkova
Luba is an ARC Mid-Career Industry Fellow leading a national project on smouldering coarse woody debris and smoke-carbon emissions. With 15+ years’ experience across diverse ecosystems, her research focuses on fire impacts on forest carbon, fuels, and greenhouse gas emissions.
lubav@unimelb.edu.au +61353214306
A/Prof Christopher Weston
Chris is an ecosystem ecologist whose research focuses on forest net productivity, nutrient and carbon cycles. Current areas of research include fire effects on forest carbon balance, black carbon formation and impact of climate change on forest fuel accumulation and structure.
weston@unimelb.edu.au +61353214103Graduate researchers
Hari Laudari
Hari Krishna Laudari is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, studying the impacts of grazing on carbon dynamics in arid and semi-arid ecosystems using meta-analysis and field data.
Minhas Hussain
Minhas’s doctoral research uses terrestrial and airborne laser scanning and UAV photogrammetry to detect, map, and quantify coarse woody debris, while evaluating the accuracy of volume estimation against field measurements.
Shuqiao Zhang
Shuqiao Zhang researches disturbance history and fire susceptibility in alpine ash forests, with experience in ecological monitoring across grasslands and tea and lacquer forests. His interests focus on forest ecology and management.
Wenxin Zhou
Wenxin is a PhD candidate studying how aridity, grazing, and climate variability shape global dryland ecosystems, combining remote sensing, modelling, and field datasets to identify non-linear dynamics and ecological thresholds.
Puguh Raharjo
Alumni
Dr Freddy Hutapea
