Conrad Pratt

Conrad is a PhD student in the School of the Environment at the University of Queensland, supervised by Dr Tatsuya Amano and Professor Richard Fuller, and externally by Dr Munemitsu Akasaka at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. His research is focused on elucidating the causes, consequences, and potential solutions relating to language barriers in the environmental sciences in Japan.

Conrad is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, and holds a BSc in Environmental Science and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the University of Toronto, and an MSc in Biological Oceanography from Dalhousie University. Before undertaking his PhD, he worked at the interface of science and management as an Aquatic Invasive Species Biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. His areas of scientific expertise include aquatic ecology and invasive species. An avid language learner, Conrad currently speaks Japanese at an upper intermediate level and is aiming to push for fluency over the course of his PhD. He is also an intermediate-level speaker of French and Korean.