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Biography
Dr. Cécile Godde is a Food Systems Research Scientist working at CSIRO in the Food Systems and Global Change Group (https://research.csiro.au/foodglobalsecurity/).
She is passionate about the challenges in relation to agriculture, food security and global change, at the farm level as well as in a national and global context.
Cécile is currently leading the CSIRO team of the DARPA World Modelers Program (darpa.mil/program/world-modelers). The CSIRO team is leveraging biophysical crop and rangeland modelling, household bio-economic agent-based modelling, and supply chain transport logistics modelling capabilities to analyze questions relevant to national and global security.
She is also leading the FoodShed project, a project that combines novel conceptual frameworks, stakeholder engagement and existing domain modelling expertise to support our collective understanding of the complex linkages in food-sheds of urban consumers, and the impacts and trade-off of different intervention options and shocks.
She is acting Group Leader for the Food Systems and Global Change Group (18/07-19/08 & 19/09-31/10 - acting for Larelle McMillan), otherwise acting Team Leader for the Sustainable Food System Futures Team, and serving on the CSIRO Agriculture & Food Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) Team as Sustainability Program representative.
Prior to joining CSIRO, Cécile acquired other international experiences working on conservation and sustainable agricultural development projects for the non-governmental organisation Greening Australia (Australia), the International Livestock Research Institute (Costa-Rica), the multinational MARS Inc. (Brazil) and the French governmental agency for organic agriculture-Agence BIO (France).
In 2018, Cecile was awarded the Queensland Government Women in STEM prize, the CSIRO Directors Award, the University of Queensland Postgraduate Student for the Year and The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation Excellence Award, in recognition of her research and advocacy for diversity leadership and gender equity.
Other Interests
Her main fields of scientific interest include: food systems and global change, food security, drivers and trade-offs of land-use dynamics; livestock; grazing systems modelling; climate change and climate variability (impacts, adaptation and mitigation strategies); soil carbon sequestration.
Achievements and Awards
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2019-
Australian Rangelands Conference presentation Award
The Rangeland Journal, Australian Rangeland Society, CSIRO publishing -
2019-
Open Science meeting presentation Award
Global Land Use Program -
2018-
Queensland Government Women in STEM Prize
Australian Government -
2018-
UQ Postgraduate Student of the Year
The University of Queensland -
2018-
CSIRO Next Generation Directors Award
CSIRO -
2018-
UQ Excellence Award
The University of Queensland - Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation -
2017-
Future Farming Prize – New science that will benefit Animal Health
Virbac
Professional Areas
Current Roles
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Research Scientist
CSIRO, Food Systems and Global Change
Academic Qualifications
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2019
Doctoral degree
The University of Queensland & CSIRO - Australia -
2014
Master's degree - Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
AgroParisTech - France
Professional Experiences
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2020-2020
Australian representative - G20 Expert panel on Promoting Sustainable Agriculture Development in Drylands
G20 Saudi Arabia -
2020-2020
Guest Editor
The Rangeland Journal -
2017-2018
Homeward Bound Participant
Year-long Leadership, Strategic, Visibility, Communication and Science program for women in STEM -
2017-2017
Young Scientists Summer Program Participant
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria -
2016-2019
PhD student
The University of Queensland-QAAFI and CSIRO-Agriculture and Food, Brisbane, Australia -
2015-2015
Consultant
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), CATIE research centre, Costa Rica -
2015-2015
Research Assistant
CSIRO - Agriculture Flagship, Brisbane, Australia -
2017-2021
Guest lecturer, public speaker
Media outreach and community engagement
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