Edith Arndt is a senior research fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA). Edith completed a PhD in alpine biogeochemistry at the University of Melbourne. Her current primary research area is biosecurity risk management, but individual projects vary.

CEBRA works in collaboration with the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries. CEBRA supports these regulators by developing custom solutions to current biosecurity risk management problems. Research priorities are identified collaboratively, and design and delivery of research project are also done in collaboration with funding partners. Edith's past projects included a three-year project on developing a performance evaluation framework for the national biosecurity system. Another project produced a comprehensive literature review on the factors that influence marine vessel biofouling, an important vector for the introduction of exotic marine species.

Edith's background is in alpine ecology. She studied the influences of temperature and fire on soil biogeochemistry (nitrogen) in alpine and sub-alpine ecosystems in Australia and Austria. Edith is currently not actively undertaking research in this area but is interested in studying the effects of bushfires and climate change on the composition of soil microbial communities in sub-alpine ecosystems in Australia.

Before joining CEBRA Edith worked in the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning in Melbourne for nine years. In the public service, she worked on various programs in forest fire management, including monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of the effectiveness of bushfire management on public land. Having worked both in the public service and in academia Edith is interested in the interface between research and policy, how scientists and decision makers can work together more effectively and increase levels of research uptake into policy making.

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