Dr Hazel Parry is a Senior Research Scientist in the Agroecology team at CSIRO with 15 years of research experience in Australia on area-wide management of insect pests, with prior research experience in the UK where she was awarded her PhD (2007) and worked as a research scientist for the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.

Her research focuses on population dynamics and dispersal, as well as ecological modelling (including socio-economics) to inform management practice. She is currently working towards the development of ‘Digital AW-IPM’ decision-support systems (Digital Twins) as an extension of the modelling research she has done for many years. For more about the CSIRO Agroecology Team and their research see https://research.csiro.au/agroecology/. Hazel is also on X (Twitter) @HazelScienceNut.