Shawn Laffan
Director, Earth And Sustainability Science Research Centre at UNSW
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolShawn Laffan is a seasoned academic leader with 15 years in senior earth and sustainability science roles and over two decades at UNSW and ANU, now directing the Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre. He combines deep expertise in geography (PhD, ANU) with practical higher education pedagogy (GradCert in University Learning and Teaching) to steer interdisciplinary research and teaching programs. As a professor and former associate professor, he has a long track record of building research capacity and translating complex environmental science into policy-relevant outputs. Based in Sydney, he is known for bridging rigorous spatial science with applied sustainability challenges, often working at the interface of modelling, data and decision-making. A subtle strength is his sustained institutional impact—progressing from lecturer to centre director—which speaks to both scholarly stature and organisational leadership.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (200)
alien10
windows10
perl10
geography10
h310
geodesy10
spatial10
cpp10
par10
komodo10
weechat10
reproducible-science10
pkg-config10
translator10
biology10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
shawnlaffan/perl-alien-sqlite
Dec 2018 - Nov 2022
Perl Alien package to compile sqlite
Contributions:1 release, 89 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 11 months
aliensqlite3compilesqlitedatabase
shawnlaffan/perl-alien-freexl
Dec 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 10 months
azerothcorealienperl5compileperl
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