Talks

  • Multi-scale species richness estimation with deep learning, speaker, International Biogeography Society, Aarhus, Denmark (January 2026).
  • A gentle introduction to differentiable programming with applications in ecological modeling, invited speaker, AMAP seminar, Montpellier, France (November 2025).
  • Deep learning based-species area relationships, invited speaker, DeepSDM conference, Montpellier, France (May 2025).
  • Differentiable programming for ecology, invited speaker, Inria Montbonnot, France (February 2025).
  • A deep species area model to map species richness and its sensitivity to habitat size, poster, AI+Environment Summit, Zürich, Switzerland (October 2024).
  • Practical introduction to Julia for biodiversity research, 3-day workshop organizer and speaker, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany (August 2024).
  • PiecewiseInference.jl: inverse modelling for complex dynamics, speaker, JuliaCon2024, Eindhoven, Netherlands (July 2024).
  • Reproducible research and geodata processing, 2-day workshop co-organizer and speaker, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland (June 2024).
  • Introduction to Julia for Geosciences, co-convener, Short course at EGU 2024, Vienna, Austria (April 2024).
  • A scalable machine learning approach to assess the combined effect of habitat loss and climate change on biodiversity, speaker, International Biogeography Society conference (IBS) 2024, Prague, Czech Republic (January 2024).
  • PiecewiseInference.jl: a machine learning framework for inverse ecosystem modelling, speaker, EGU 2023, Vienna, Austria (April 2023). [slides]
  • Practical introduction to Julia for modelling and data analysis in biodiversity and earth sciences, 2-day workshop organizer and speaker, WSL Biodiversity Center, Birmensdorf, Switzerland (March 2023).
  • Combining eco-evolutionary theory and machine learning to advance our understanding of living systems, invited speaker, Seminar at the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de physique (LiPhy), Grenoble, France (February 2023). [slides]
  • HighDimPDE.jl: A Julia package for solving high-dimensional PDEs, speaker, JuliaCon2022, online video
  • Interpretable machine learning for forecasting dynamical processes in ecosystems, speaker, World Biodiversity Forum, Davos, Switzerland (June 2022). [slides]
  • Investigating empirical patterns of biodiversity with mechanistic eco-evolutionary models, invited speaker, Seminar at the Theoretical Ecology and Evolution group, Universität Bern, Switzerland (June 2022).
  • Numerical approximations of solutions of highly dimensional, non-local nonlinear PDEs, invited speaker, StAMBio seminar, St Andrews, UK (November 2021). [slides]
  • Graph topology and habitat assortativity drive phenotypic differentiation in an eco-evolutionary model, speaker, Conference on Complex Systems, Lyon, France (October 2021). [slides]
  • Using graph-based metrics to assess the effect of landscape topography on diversification, speaker, ECBC, Amsterdam, Netherlands (October 2021). [slides]
  • Solving non-local nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in high dimensions with HighDimPDE.jl, speaker, International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, Bordeaux, France (September 2021). [poster]
  • Responses of neutral and adaptive diversity to complex geographic population structure, speaker, Mathematical Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution, CIRM Marseille, France (April 2021). [poster]