 I spent the last couple of decades conducting scientific research in relation to fires. This includes areas such as identifying key drivers of fire activity and behaviour, detecting fires and its impacts using remotely sensed imagery, and understanding the role of climate change and variability in relation to fires. I always enjoyed the applied scientific research the most. Applied research is essentially research that is designed to answer practical problems. Today is why I joined CFA so that the research I do is based on real-world problems and the findings and outputs can be directly utilized. An example of this is recently. Some of my research colleagues and I published some results that show how fire weather in Victoria is likely to change in the future under the influence of climate change. We found that the number of very high fire danger days could triple in some parts of Victoria by the end of the century. These findings and the dataset we created in this project is important because it allows CFA to better understand what climate change means for firefighting and how we can prepare for new challenges.