Fonti is a postdoctoral research fellow at BDSI, ANU. She is working on the Analytics for Australian Grains Industry project to solve agricultural problems with statistical tools. Fonti has a background in evolutionary biology, quantitative biology and open-source tool building. She is an advocate for openness, in science and in code and has developed a number of R packages and applications to support research. Fonti is passionate about data science education and has delivered workshops on collaborative coding and package building.

Learn more about Fonti's work at her website: https://fontikar.github.io/