Past Courses / Events

Next Level Scientific Writing with AI [more]

Knowing how many species or individuals occur at a given place and time is fundamental to many questions in wildlife ecology, conservation and management. Enumerating wildlife, however, is complicated by our imperfect and varying (with method, species, habitat, etc) ability to detect animals. In ... [more]

Growing threats to biodiversity require timely information on the status of wild populations worldwide. Standardized, large-scale monitoring programs are critical to assess population trends and track progress toward the biodiversity and sustainable goals identified by several international ... [more]

This doctoral thesis delves into the convergence of complex systems science, cognitive science, and statistical inference, to probe the phenomena of collective behavior—where autonomous entities such as cells, birds, or humans exhibit coordination that eclipses their individual capacities. Central ... [more]

Infectious disease risk can represent a key cost of social interactions. Therefore, quantifying how individuals mitigate this risk, while maximising social benefits can help us understand how individual social behaviour evolves and scales up to group and population-level social structure and ... [more]

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Research on animal migrations is usually performed by studying individuals in isolation. However, many animals migrate in groups. In my thesis, I first present a systematic review to synthesize the literature on social migrations. I then present the consequences of migrating under different physical ... [more]

HABITRACK is a new EU-project that I will work on during the coming four years together with partners in France, Finland, Czech Republic and Northern Germany. It will include a large animal tracking effort in various countries of Europe, where more than 1000 individuals of 14 duck, goose, wader and ... [more]

Disasters are ever present in the news. But how much do we really know about them? Is every earthquake or storm a disaster? Are there more disasters today than before? Who are people most likely to ask for help? And, should you really donate your old clothes?In this session, we will go over the ... [more]

In the research field of animal behaviour, electronic devices which track an animal's behaviour with various sensors, so-called bio-loggers, have become omnipresent. Therefore, it is unsurprising that optimisation questions like data quality, size, weight, memory, transmission rate and energy ... [more]