Dr Alexandre Faustino (he/him) is a Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow investigating how waterscapes - the ways humans and more-than-humans relate with water - can be re-imagined, lived and governed with socio-ecological justice.

Coming from Brazil, Alex is based at RMIT University Centre for Urban Research (CUR) in Naarm (Melbourne), having completed a Ph.D. in Urban Geography at the School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies. Alex has experience teaching within the school’s portfolio of Sustainability and Urban Planning, and he currently co-convenes Praxis Lab RMIT, CUR Early Career Academics Network, and is a Deputy Associate Director for CUR’s theme of Geographies of Land, Home and Place. In 2024 he collaborated with Professor Chris Speed in the conceptualisation and development RMIT Regenerative Futures Institute. He is also a founding member of the Alliance for Praxis Research (APR), a scholar and creative activist collective based in Melbourne dedicated to cultivating radical pedagogies and nurture transdisciplinary grassroots networks through practices of university extension.