Droevendaalsesteeg 10
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
Quantitative population ecologist and coding enthusiast working for the SPI-Birds initiative. Tackling data-related challenges with a daily dose of atmospheric music, coffee and an ornamental pair of socks.
I am a developer at SPI-Birds since the very start of the initiative. Now, as a postdoc at NIOO-KNAW, I will continue to tailor pipelines and develop other functionalities for SPI-Birds as well as aim to link SPI-Birds data to other well-known European (bird) data initiatives, such as EURING and MoveBank, in my research.
Before this, I was working as a PhD researcher at the Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. I worked on the project 'Evolution in a Changing Climate' (EVOCLIM), which was inspired by the ability of individuals and populations to adapt to an ever-changing environment. Using a unique set of long-term studies on European hole-nesting passerines, I explored the roles of density dependence, through competition within and between species, and environmental fluctuations in affecting and linking ecological and evolutionary processes.
At NTNU, I have also been involved in the organisation of three international conferences:
EvoDemo7 (https://evodemo7.weebly.com/), the 7th Annual Meeting of the Evolutionary Demography Society (Røros, Norway, 6 - 11 Oct 2020)
Nordic Society Oikos (https://nordicsocietyoikos.org) conference (Trondheim, Norway, 20 - 22 Feb 2018)
Eighth International Hole-Nesting Birds Conference (https://www.ntnu.edu/hnb-conference) (Trondheim, Norway, 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2017)
SPI-Birds is a network of researchers working on populations of breeding, individually marked birds that came together to create a community-defined, standardized method for formatting data and for describing the attributes of studied populations. In addition, this initiative aims to make long-term data of individually marked birds more accessible and improve the exchange of data, research ideas and practices. More info: https://spibirds.org.
A sDiv collaborative project with the focus on: how do trait responses to climate change translate into variation in demographic rates and population dynamics?