David Robinson
Branch Head, Energy Systems Branch at Geoscience Australia
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Robinson is an experienced geophysicist and science leader with 14+ years delivering applied earth-science solutions across government and international partnerships. As Branch Head for Energy Systems at Geoscience Australia and former Chief Scientist for the DMInnovation program in Indonesia, he has led teams that translated geoscience into actionable risk-reduction tools—ranging from national earthquake and tsunami hazard maps to real-time impact estimation and open-source disaster planning software. He combines deep technical expertise in seismology and geophysical inversion (PhD) with program-level delivery, having built influential open tools such as the Earthquake Risk Model and InaSAFE that advanced both research and operational practice. His work notably bridges science, software and capacity-building: he has helped embed scientific forecasting into Indonesian emergency agencies and supported graduate training programs that produced multiple PhD and MSc graduates. Based in Canberra, he now focuses on identifying new energy resource potential through pre-competitive geoscience information to attract investment. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who turns complex geoscience into usable public goods.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
SACE, SACE at Urrbrae Agriculrural High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Seismology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Seismology at Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National UniversityBachelor of Science (Hons.), Geophysics, University Medal Winner, Bachelor of Science (Hons.), Geophysics, University Medal Winner at Flinders University of SAGraduate Certificate of Management, Graduate Certificate of Management at Charles Sturt University
Indonesian
Github Skills (4)
qgis4
grav-plugin3
python3
wps2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
davidr007/concluding_papers
Dec 2011 - Aug 2013
Contributions:41 commits in 1 year 8 months
inasafe/inasafe
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
InaSAFE - QGIS plugin for estimating impact from natural disasters
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
wpspythonqgis-pluginriskestimating
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