Dr Holden is a Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in the School of Mathematics and Physics.
He develops quantitative approaches to solve challenging problems in environmental management. This includes how to cost-effectively search for invasive species, save threatened species, protect natural ecosystems, and harvest fish sustainably.
Experience
2017–present
Lecturer, The University of Queensland
2015–2017
Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland
Education
2015
Cornell University, PhD/Applied Mathematics
Publications
2017
High prices for rare species can drive large populations extinct: the anthropogenic Allee effect revisited, Journal of Theoretical Biology
2017
Academic conferences urgently need environmental policies, Nature Ecology & Evolution
2016
Human judgment vs. quantitative models for the management of ecological resources, Ecological Applications
2016
The economic benefit of time‐varying surveillance effort for invasive species management, Journal of Applied Ecology
2016
Elephant Poaching: Track the impact of Kenya's ivory burn, Nature
2015
Optimal escapement in stage-structured fisheries with environmental stochasticity, Mathematical biosciences
2013
Optimal Control and Cold War Dynamics between Plant and Herbivore, The American Naturalist
2012
Designing an effective trap cropping strategy: the effects of attraction, retention and plant spatial distribution, Journal of applied ecology