Design lab

Computational Biologist & Group Leader, Assistant Professor

I am a biodiversity researcher dedicated to providing data and computational tools for combatting the global biodiversity crisis. I firmly believe in the potential of interdisciplinary research to provide new and innovative solutions to fill our gaps in understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of biodiversity, by bringing together perspectives from ecology, statistics and machine learning, remote sensing, and environmental DNA.

Nature Geographer, PhD student

I am a PhD student focusing on biodiversity, geomatics, remote sensing and machine learning. My interest is to research the possibilities of assessing biodiversity through remote sensing techniques such as spectral imagery, lidar and synthetic aperture radar. By combining these techniques with geospatial data and deep learning, I aim to develop tools that contribute to monitoring biodiversity at different scales.

Ecologist, PhD student

As an ecologist focused on the study of fungal biodiversity in forest ecosystems, my goal is to discover the unknown and protect the known. My PhD research aims to optimize environmental DNA metabarcoding techniques -- in fieldwork and labwork -- to assess fungal biodiversity more efficiently and study the impact of forestry and other human disturbances on fungal diversity.

Data Scientist, PhD student

The ultimate goal of my research is to provide policymakers and companies with data and tools to make better decisions for nature and biodiversity. My research focuses on quantifying natural and anthropogenic drivers of biodiversity patterns and developing causal and predictive models for biodiversity and ecosystem integrity across taxonomic and geographical scales.