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Fernando Colchero

Fernando Colchero

I am a statistical ecologists and mathematical modeler. My work focuses on developing statistical and mathematical methods to understand how demographic rates vary among populations as a function of the environment and other variables, and how these determine population processes in stochastic environments.

Morgane Tidiere

PostDoc in Biology

Morgane is working with Dalia A. Conde and Fernando on using Bayesian Survival Trajectory Analysis to detect improvements in life expectancy and lifespan equality in captive populations of mammals across time.

Fernando Colchero
Fernando Colchero

Johanna Stärk

PostDoc in Biology

Johanna finished her PhD with Dalia A. Conde and Fernando on filling demographic knowledge gaps for conservation priorization. She is using quantitative methods and decision analysis to identify costs and oportunities for conservation of endangered species.

Rita Silva

PhD in Biology (Graduated)

Rita completed her PhD with Dalia Conde and Fernando using demographic methods to determine the limits of captive breeding to assess traffic of endangered species. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center on Population Dynamics (CPop).

Fernando Colchero
Fernando Colchero

Maria Baden

PhD in Biology (Graduated)

Maria did her PhD with Dr. Johan Dahlgren and Fernando on senescence in plants. She is currently a PostDoc with Johan and Fernando working on filling in demographic knowledge gaps for plants using botanical garden records.

Francisco (Pancho) Villavicencio

PhD in Statistics (Graduated)

Francisco finished his PhD where he developed statistical and mathematical methods to analyse and explore sparse demographic data. Among his projects, he developed a hierarchical Bayesian method to explore mortality patterns from 16th and 17th Century parish marriage records in Barcelona, Spain. Since January 2019 he is working as Assistant Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, USA.

Fernando Colchero

Master students

Masters in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

Christian D. Jørgensen (graduated): Christian worked on missing data in multivariate covariance generalized linear models.

Jeppe K. Kristensen (graduated): Jeppe worked with Sebastian on applying state-space Bayesian inference models to estimate organic crop yields in Denmark. The project was carried out in collaboration with Statistics Denmark.

Sebastian Gregersen (graduated): Sebastian worked with Jeppe on applying state-space Bayesian inference models to estimate organic crop yields in Denmark. The project is carried out in collaboration with Statistics Denmark.

Sarah S. Nielsen (graduated): Sarah did a joint project with Janne developing multilevel Bayesian hierarchical models for age-specific survival to test the effect of environmental variables on aging rates.

Janne A. Eriksen (graduated) Janne did a joint project with Sarah developing multilevel Bayesian hierarchical models for age-specific survival to test the effect of environmental variables on aging rates.

Burhan Yasin Kiyakoglu (graduated) Burhan did his MSc thesis on developing hierachical Bayesian methods to estimate the effect of individual heterogeneity on ageing rates (Colchero and Kiyakoglu 2020).

Master in Mathematical Economy

Rune R. Olsen (graduated): Rune worked on exploring the relationship between lifespan equality and income inequality.

Master in Biology

Alix E. Aliaga (graduated): Alix finished her masters thesis with Dalia Conde and Fernando. She analysed mortality and fertility patterns in sparrowhawks and how these differ between sexes and as a function of reproductive investment and individual heterogeneity. She is currently working at the biological consultancy Amphi Consult.

Emil Guttesen (graduated): Emil finished his masters degree with Fernando and Dalia Conde where he develope a meta-population model to implement a restauration plan for frogs in the city of Odense. This was part of a long-term project for the restauration of urban ecosystems in Odense.

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