Dr Euan Ritchie is an Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation in Deakin University’s Centre for Integrative Ecology and the School of Life and Environmental Sciences. He has published over 100 scientific articles related with biodiversity conservation and wildlife ecology and management. His work is focussed on predators and their ecological roles, the ecology, conservation and management of Australian mammals, and environmental policy. He was part of a research team whose work on the dingo won the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Eureka Prize for Environmental Research in 2013 and is one of the Australian Chief Scientist’s ‘Science Superheroes’. He is also the director of the Ecology Society of Australia's Media Working Group, Deputy Convenor of Deakin University's Science and Society Network, a committee member of the Victorian government’s Wild Dog Management Advisory Committee, and a passionate and prolific science communicator. He has written 49 articles for The Conversation, read over 770,000 times.