Dr Dana Cordell is a Research Principal at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney where she undertakes and leads research projects on sustainable resource futures. She co-founded the Global Phosphorus Research Initiative (GPRI) and public website www.phosphorusfutures.net in 2008 with colleagues in Sweden and Australia, as an outcome of her doctoral research on the 'Sustainability implications of global phosphorus scarcity for food security', which she undertook jointly at the Institute for Sustainable Futures and Linköping University’s Department for Water and Environmental Studies in Sweden. The GPRI has since expanded to represent five leading research institutes across Europe, Australia and North America. In addition to facilitating transdisciplinary research on global phosphorus security, the GPRI aims to facilitate networking and provide accessible information to multiple stakeholders, including policy makers, industry, other scientists and the public regarding the physical and institutional dimensions of global phosphate scarcity and potential solutions.