Professor David Green PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons) Professor Phone: +61 3 990 53912 Fax: +61 3 990 55146 Email: Homepage: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dgreen/

Teaching commitments:

1. FIT4009
2. FIT4005
3. FIT1004

Research interests:

1. Complex systems
2. Bioinformatics
3. Environmental informatics
4. Artificial life
5. Evolutionary computation
6. Distributed information systems

Research publications:

1. Green, D.G., Klomp, N.I., Rimmington, G.R. and Sadedin, S. (2006). Complexity in Landscape Ecology. Springer, Amsterdam.
2. Green, D.G. (2004). The Serendipity Machine. Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
3. Green, D.G. and Bossomaier, T.R.J. (2002). Online GIS and Spatial Metadata. Taylor and Francis, London.
4. Bossomaier, T.R.J. and Green, D.G. (eds) (2000). Complex Systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
5. Bossomaier, T.J. and Green, D.G. (1998). Patterns in the Sand - Computers, Complexity and Life. Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
6. Green, D.G. and Bransden, T.G. (2006). Complexity theory. In McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, New York. pp. 507-511.
7. Complexity Virtual Laboratory

Biography:

In a research career spanning more than thirty years, Professor Green has applied computers to problems as diverse as starfish, bushfires, DNA, and social issues.

His research centres on complex systems and its implications in many areas. He is editor of the journal Complexity International and author of several books on the new field of complexity. To make this work more accessible, he developed Monash University's Complexity Virtual Laboratory, which provides onlines working demonstrations of many aspects of complexity.

His research has also included online GIS and distributed information systems.

In the early 1990s, he established several pioneering online information services, such as the Guide to Australia and the New South Wales HSC Online. He also played a key role in international efforts to compile comprehensive databases of the world's biodiversity.

Professor Green joined Monash in 2003, following eight years as Professor of Information Technology at Charles Sturt University. Before that, he worked at ANU for 16 years, including an ARC Senior Fellowship, and played a leading role in setting up the Australian Government's Environmental Resources Information Network.