Primary Job Title Co-founder & CEO Primary Organization RapidAIM
Location Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australasia Gender Female
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Dr Schellhorn is co-founder and CEO of RapidAIM Pty Ltd pest surveillance, security and forecasting system for agriculture. She is globally recognised in agro-ecology and biosecurity, with > 1600 peer-reviewed citations, plenary and keynote engagements and many accolades.
Prior to co-founding RapidAIM, Nancy was a Principal Research Scientist
with CSIRO in Brisbane Australia where she developed and lead concepts to achieve pest-suppressive landscapes; a way of measuring, designing and managing agricultural landscape mosaics for sustainable production.
In September 2018, Nancy and her co-inventors, Mr Darren Moore, and Ms Laura Jones, formed a company and licensed the technology that they invented while at CSIRO. The RapidFLY surveillance and management is now in the marketplace and is being adopted by Local Governments, Grower Associations and fruit growers for fruit fly management.
