A place for me to share updates and insights into my research but also little tips and tricks I find interesting in using R for scientific research

Group photo of myself and colleagues at the 13th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software in Dublin.

iEMSs 2026 in Dublin: Uncertainty in land change models, and a workshop on Quarto
Conference
Land Use Change
Uncertainty
Quarto
Workshop
Last week I was in Dublin for the 13th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs). This was my second time at this conference, having first…
Jul 2026

Panel discussion at the World Biodiversity Forum 2026 in Davos, with five seated speakers in front of a projected slide.

World Biodiversity Forum 2026: a wrap-up
Conference
Biodiversity
Ecosystem Services
Scenarios
Conservation planning
NASCENT-Peru
Last week I was back in Davos for the 2026 edition of the World Biodiversity Forum. This is my second time attending having first gone in 2024. It always feels like an…
Jun 2026

A fresh take on conferences: Attending Barcamp Open Science 2026 in Berlin
Open Science
Community
Conference

My reflections on moderating a session about effective incentives for Open Science.

Jun 2026

Multilingual RevealJS presentations with babelquarto
R
Quarto
Open science
Reproducible research
If you create Quarto presentations in more than one language, you know the problem: two .qmd files, two rendering passes, and a growing risk of the versions drifting apart…
Jun 2026

Diving into presentation templates with Quarto: RevealJS and PowerPoint
R
Quarto
Reproducible research
Automation
Open science
If you give presentations in research settings, at some point someone will ask for ‘the slides as a PowerPoint’. This still happens more often than I expected — usually at…
Jun 2026

Screenshot of the ValPar.CH Praxis Navigator

From research to practice: The ValPar.CH Praxis Navigator
biodiversity
spatial planning
decision support
Every scientific project hopes to see its results used in practice and policy. In reality, bringing together the diverse outputs of large, interdisciplinary projects in an…
Apr 2026

Building an interactive bi-variate map for exploring robustness of ecosystems services and biodiversity under future uncertainty
javascript
d3
geotiff
data-visualization
conservation-planning

A short write-up on developing a browser-based map for exploring the robustness of ecosystem services and biodiversity under uncertain futures.

Apr 2026

Photo from my PhD thesis defence

I successfully defended my PhD thesis!
thesis
PhD
research
On the 5th of June 2025, I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled “Identifying effective area-based conservation strategies under uncertainty”. The defence was well…
Jun 2025

Title page of my Quarto PhD thesis template

Creating my own PhD thesis template with Quarto
R
Quarto
Reproducible research
thesis
template
LaTeX
Over the last two years I have really started to use Quarto for everything in my academic work from writing manuscripts, websites for research projects, data dashboards for…
Apr 2025

Photo from the agent-based modelling workshop that sparked the awesome list

Starting an awesome list for scientific resources
R
Github
Awesome List
Resources
Continuous Integration
In October 2024 I attended a workshop on speeding up the development of useful agent-based land use models. This was a great opportunity for me to engage in a research field…
Nov 2024

Graphical abstract for reproducible research workshop

Upcoming workshop: Reproducible research with R and Quarto
R
Quarto
Reproducible research
FAIR
Landscape conference
workshop
I have been a big fan of R for everything research related for several years and Rstudio has been my go-to IDE all the way from being a complete beginner to my current level…
May 2024

Screenshot of my automatically generated CV

Automating boring tasks pt. 1: Updating my CV
R
Markdown
Automation
CV
Resume
If you are like me, you only ever find yourself updating your CV when you are actually unemployed and looking for a new job. This is also a task I find especially…
Feb 2024

Screenshot of the NASCENT-Peru project website

New research project: NASCENT-Peru
Future landscape scenarios
Ecosystem Services
Biodiversity
Peru
SwissRE
Project
NASCENT-Peru
I am excited to be able to introduce a new research project that I will be working on for the next two years: NASCENT-Peru.
Nov 2023
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