Gavin Walker Email & Phone Number

If you are interested in being part of the Plastic Research Network Australia (PRNA), please contact Gavin directly using one of contacts above.Gavin Walker is a Principal Experimental Scientist at CSIRO. He has over 30 years experience in research and development. To transform industry with data a data ecosystem is needed. Each new data product, process or innovation creates both an impost on and an opportunity in industry. In a thriving data ecosystem industry can reach out and connect with skills, businesses and ideas it needs to realise those opportunities. The data culture of the ecosystem makes the right advice easier to find. We need to understand the patterns of socio-technical systems, how to match problems to effective solutions for people and systems, that make these ecosystems effective. To understand the problems people face Gavin looks at the social context as well as the technical context. The drivers and pressures of the people involved are as important for good outcomes as the software system or information model.Gavin has worked in a broad set of domains including: spatial information systems, environmental informatics, emergency services, traffic simulation, sensor clouds, museums, tourism, registries, cotton, skills, hydrogen and waste. Gavin developed the Water Data Transfer Format for the Bureau of Meteorology and assisted in the development of the Open Geospatial Consortium’s WaterML2.0 standard. He was also an author of the Productivity Commission's 2017 Data Availability and Use report.He leads the Management Waste Systems package in CSIRO's Ending Plastic Waste. We’re developing tools to improve the utilisation of plastic waste in the circular economy, including how products are obtained and used, how things are disposed of, and how recovered plastic materials can be used again. He has also been expanding his use of systems thinking in CSIRO's Smart Energy. Energy connects every part of our lives. A systems view of the net zero energy transformation incorporates social, technical and economic dimensions to change.

Listed skills include Software Engineering, Algorithms, C++, Java, and 18 others.

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  Principal Experimental Scientist

  Csiro

  1991 - Present - Canberra

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  James Cook University

  Honours