Author Biographies

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Andrew Markham is a Professor of Computer Science and he works on sensors, signal processing/machine learning, and systems. His research revolves around making machines better understand the physical world. He works within the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) theme and leads a large group of researchers and students. He investigates how to track and localize people, animals, and objects, particularly in environments where technologies like GPS fail, such as underground or indoors. Key to this is the use of magneto-inductive tracking and communication. His work is typically cross-disciplinary and he collaborates with colleagues from a wide range of disciplines. Increasingly, his research has turned to data-driven methods and physics-informed approaches to learning from noisy sensor data. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2008 researching the design and implementation of a wildlife tracking system, using heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. Within the department, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2008 to 2012, he was appointed as an Associate Professor in 2013 and awarded the title of full Professor in 2021.
Michael J Noonan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Sciences, The University of British Columbia. He received his BSc from Concordia University and earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Quantitative Ecology Lab, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute & University of Maryland. His research program is aimed at disentangling complex and nuanced biological patterns from statistical bias, and at developing statistical methods and software for handling the unique challenges posed by ecological data.
Christina D. Buesching has a M.Sc. from the German Primate Center, Göttingen, on the reproductive physiology and behavior of the female lesser mouse lemur and a D.Phil. from Oxford University investigating mammalian sociality and communication in badgers. She works on a wide variety of mammals ranging from Australian marsupials to giant pandas, Madagascan prosimians, and European carnivores and rodents, involving numerous collaborators across the globe. Her main research focus is olfactory communication and how mammalian semio-chemistry is affected by physiology and disease. Since 2020, she has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and operates her own scientific manuscript editing service, NovaScript.
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Yadvinder Malhi is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests. His work focuses on understanding the ecosystem ecology of tropical forests, and how this will change in the context of global atmospheric change and direct anthropogenic change. His research employs a range of tools from intensive field studies to satellite monitoring and ecosystem modeling. Much of his work has focussed on Amazonia, where he was co-founder of the RAINFOR forest plots network and the ABERG elevation transect in the Andes. More recently his research has also spread to the forests of Africa and Asia, and he leads the GEM (Global Ecosystems Monitoring) network of intensive forest monitoring sites across the tropics. More generally, he is interested in understanding how we can maximize the resilience and viability of the tropical forest biome in the context of the Anthropocene, and in building the scientific capacity of tropical forest nations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2018 the President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.
David W. Macdonald is a British zoologist and conservationist. He is the Founding Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at the University of Oxford, which he founded in 1986. He is the University of Oxford’s first Professor of Wildlife Conservation and holds a Senior Research Fellowship at Lady Margaret Hall. He has been an active wildlife conservationist since graduating from Oxford in 1972. He won the Dawkins Prize for Conservation and Animal Welfare in 2005, the American Society of Mammalogists' Merriam Prize for research in mammalogy in 2006, and in 2007 The Mammal Society of Great Britain's equivalent medal. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2008. In 2025, he was awarded the Linnean Medal for services to science. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to science in the 2010 Birthday Honours.
Chris Newman worked for Oxford’s WildCRU for 30 years, latterly as the H.N. Southern Memorial Fellow in Ecology, primarily running the Badger Project in Wytham Woods. Now living in Canada, He continues an active interest in research alongside a career in academic editing and consultancy, working extensively with Universities in China and has recently been appointed as a Visiting Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. His work examines those factors that influence population success, principally climate change and disease. His focus has recently been on individual adaptation in response life-history stressors.
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