Backnang, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
I'm an environmental economist and wood products engineer with a passion for data science workflows. In my research, I have applied econometrics to international Forest Products Markets. I have developed a modelling framework to combine forest economics and biophysical dynamics of forest ecosystems at the EU scale. I have used life cycle analysis footprint methods to analyse the link between agricultural products trade and deforestation. The tools I developed are published as biotrade and eu_cbm_hat on the python package index. They are documented in several technical reports and publications and the source code is freely available. I have trained a handful of users on each tool. I am now a freelance consultant located near Stuttgart, Germany. I like to analyse environnemental issues with data science tools. I very much enjoy training, mentoring and improving the skills of technical staff so that they can create reproducible data science workflow.
Modelling the bioeconomy
- Independent consultant for international research institutes. I develop data architectures in the context of the bio-based economy. - I maintain forecasting algorithms for wood demand and forest growth dynamics at the European level. I am the lead developer and maintainer of the Python packages biotrade and eu_cbm_hat (available on PyPI). I am the maintainer of the R package FAOSTAT (available on CRAN). - I mentor researchers in data science techniques using python. I provide support for subject-matter experts in the implementation and automation of analytical workflows.
- Link an economic model of the forest sector with a bio-physical forest dynamics model in order to develop future projections of forest biomass supply and demand and to analyse the impact on the forest sink. - Analyse forest products trade, as well as agricultural trade of products potentially linked with deforestation.