Dr Jasper Montana is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU.

Jasper is also an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

Dr Montana's research examines and experiments with the workings of environmental expertise, including relationships between science and policy, theories and practices of inter- and transdisciplinary research, and the role of knowledge, numbers, norms and technologies in environmental governance.

He has a particular interest in biodiversity loss, nature conservation and nature restoration as complex challenges requiring innovative action, and is inspired by efforts to reconnect people with nature in everyday life.