Nicolas Younes is an engineer, a geospatial and remote sensing scientist, and an entrepreneur, who is passionate about Earth observation, knowledge transfer, education, and understanding spatial and temporal changes in Australian forests. He is a Research Fellow at the College of Science, The Australian National University. He holds an Environmental Engineering degree, a Master’s degree in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, a Master’s degree in Natural Resource Management, and a PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences. His areas of research include vegetation phenology, GAMs, oil palm monitoring, forest loss in the Upper Guinea Forest, Intertidal ecosystems, and environmental economics. He works in local, continental, and global-scale projects that seek to further our understanding of vegetation phenology and flammability through the use of remote sensing technologies.