Droevendaalsesteeg 10
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
I mostly do meta-science and open science. Why? Because I strive to enable ecology (& ecologist) to do the best possible science with the highest impact on nature and society. Why? Cos we really need this! I also play piano & advocate for equity.
I am a senior scientist at the Ruder Boskovic Institute (Zagreb, Croatia) and honorary fellow at NIOO-KNAW.
My expertise covers evolutionary ecology of bonding, life-history trade offs, evidence synthesis, and data and code standards. I strive to apply my knowledge of different modelling approaches and Open Science to study and optimize scientific process itself - called meta-science and to enable ecological research to reach its full potential.
As a sole carer of a toddler, I have been experiencing many obstacles in managing my scientific career. I hope that being vocal about this can help in changing the current evaluation, expectation, and promotion systems in science, and encourage practices that accommodate those in less-common life-situations.
Get in touch if you have any questions about my work, ideas for collaborative projects, or if you think your group would benefit from a workshops on open practices, meta-science, or meta-analysis.
In my outreach I focus on communicating:
1) my work to the general public
2) struggles and wins of an everyday scientists. Science must be more inclusive, and I hope my story can show that you do not have to work long hours, nor weekends, not do you have to over-publish to be a good (and happy) scientist!