Research

Research Group in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) led by Tina Heger (Freie Universität Berlin). I was a Fellow in this group.

Please visit the project website here

This research group brings together ecologists, computer scientists and philosophers of biology with the aim of synthesizing ecological knowledge and making it useful for ecosystem restoration. Ecological systems are highly complex, and ecological processes are strongly context dependent. This leads to the fact that empirical results from single case studies are hard to extrapolate to other systems, and hard to translate into meaningful instructions for management. This project draws on recent advances in data science and AI technology, on causal modeling, and on philosophical reflection to transform knowledge gained in single empirical studies into more general and practically useful knowledge. The long-term vision is to build a digital atlas of ecological knowledge useful for restoration.