Dr Kiran Dhanjal-Adams
Postdoctoral Researcher: Spatial tools for biological conservation
Department
Team
Conservation Assessment and Analysis
Specialism
Machine learning (CNN, RNN, RL), Conservation Planning, Occupancy/Abundance modelling, Movement Ecology
I am an ecological modeller, specialised in conservation planning and machine learning.
- 2021 – 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, Kew Gardens, UK
- 2019 – 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour, Germany
- 2017 – 2019 Postoctoral Researcher, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland
- 2016 – 2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
- 2012 – 2015 PhD Candidate, Centre for Excellence in Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, Australia
- 2010 – 2011 MRes Computational Biology (Merit), University of York, UK
- 2006 – 2010 BSc Environmental Science (Ecology), University of Aberdeen, UK
Dhanjal‐Adams, K. L., Willener, A. S., & Liechti, F. (2022).
pamlr: A toolbox for analysing animal behaviour using pressure, acceleration, temperature, magnetic or light data in R.
Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(7), 1345-1360.
Dhanjal-Adams, K. L., Bauer, S., Emmenegger, T., Hahn, S., Lisovski, S., & Liechti, F. (2018).
Spatiotemporal group dynamics in a long-distance migratory bird.
Current Biology, 28(17), 2824-2830.
Dhanjal‐Adams, K. L., Klaassen, M., Nicol, S., Possingham, H. P., Chadès, I., & Fuller, R. A. (2017).
Setting conservation priorities for migratory networks under uncertainty.
Conservation Biology, 31(3), 646-656.
Dhanjal‐Adams, K. L., Mustin, K., Possingham, H. P., & Fuller, R. A. (2016).
Optimizing disturbance management for wildlife protection: the enforcement allocation problem.
Journal of Applied Ecology, 53(4), 1215-1224.
Antonelli, A., Dhanjal‐Adams, K. L., & Silvestro, D. (2022).
Integrating machine learning, remote sensing and citizen science to create an early warning system for biodiversity.
Plants, People, Planet.
