About me
I’m Artur, a computational ecologist and data analyst based in London. I am currently working at Natural History Museum, and previously I spent time in Kew Gardens and UCL. My main interests include environmental research, species conservation, global change and computational methods.
Current role: Research Assistant at London NHM
As a research assistant in the Biodiversity & Health research group, I investigate the impacts of global change on epidemiology of zoonotic diseases. I am developing a LLM-powered LangGraph-based application allowing manipulating, querying and analysing epidemiological data and studies through a natural language interface. I also help with preparation of manuscripts for publications and development of scientific output across the research group.
Outputs include:
- Trebski, A., Gourlay, L., Gibb, R., Imirzian, N. and Redding, D. W. (2024). ‘Sensitivity to climate change is widespread across zoonotic diseases’. doi: 10.1101/2024.11.18.24317483. [Pre-print]
Recent activities
Data Curator at RBG, Kew (Oct 2023 - Apr 2024)
I spent 6 months at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew where I was working as a Data Curator. I contributed to the “NutriDiv” project led by Dr Samuel Pironon, mainly focusing on collecting and standardizing plant nutrition data from Food Composition Databases. My input provides a base for ML modelling pipeline aiming to predict nutrition across global diversity of edible plants.
Master’s project at UCL CBER
Between September 2022 and May 2023, I was conducting my Master’s research project titled “Potential decline in the distribution of the agricultural pest Nezara viridula in the macadamia-growing region of South Africa”. I utilised Species Distribution Models and Bayesian networks to predict the future distribution of an agricultural pest in South Africa under climate change. I was working under the supervision of Prof Richard Pearson, and I am currently preparing a manuscript for publication.
In July 2023, I presented the project during the poster session at the BES Macroecology 2023 conference in Birmingham, and had an opportunity to learn from other scientists presenting their research. The poster is available to be viewed here.
Meta-meta-analysis research placement at London NHM
Last summer I was interning at London Natural History Museum as a part of the SSCP DTP REP. Under the supervision of Prof Andy Purvis, I was researching the impacts of organic agriculture on biodiversity using novel meta-analytic methods. I was a member of an amazing Biodiversity Futures Lab, and had an opportunity to also contribute to a science communication project, which you can see below.
UCL Science Communication for Biologists Student Conference
In January 2023 I participated in a student-led science communication conference at ZSL Institute of Zoology. I presented the topic of “The Uncertain Future of Antarctica’s Biodiversity” and I discussed the power and limitations of new technologies in studying Antarctica’s biodiversity. The slides from my talk are available here.
