Stefan Vriend

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)