Brett Bryan holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Global Change, Environment, and Society in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He joined Deakin in 2017 having spent the previous 14 years as Principal Research Scientist in CSIRO.  He established and is Director of Deakin’s Planet-A Sustainability Science research group. His research spans multiple areas of sustainability science with focus on the integrated modelling of food, land, water, and environment. He is Director of Deakin’s Postgraduate Sustainability program and teaches undergraduate students about environmental policy. With total career research funding of over $27 million, Professor Bryan has successfully delivered over 85 individual projects including large, integrated assessments aimed at understanding and managing complex social-ecological systems such as the $5m Lower Murray Landscape Futures which involved over 40 scientists from multiple organisations. He led the development of the original Land-Use Trade-Offs model for the Australian National Outlook and developed version 2.0 of the LUTO model under the Land-Use Futures Program with Climateworks Australia. He has a global network, having worked with over 500 collaborators from dozens of countries and scores of organisations spanning research, government, community, and industry sectors. Professor Bryan has published over 220 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and his work has been cited over 19,000 times. He has led 2 papers in Nature. Professor Bryan was a Foundational National Steering Committee Memberof Future Earth Australia, was elected Fellow of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand in 2023, and is a former Board Member of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society.