At the Velavadar National Park, Gujarat, India, 2022. during fieldwork of Project MELA (Mating Ecology of a Lek-breeding Antelope). Picture by Mahesh bhai (forest guard).
Engineer turned ecologist bridging science and art by building communities.
My research focuses on behavior patterns of insects, mammals and birds. I specialize in using large deployment of sensors and AI for studying wild groups of animals. Currently, I am a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and University of Konstanz. Beyond academic research, I work as an independent artist and organize educational outreach activities around the world to support capacity building in local communities. ⇩
What’s new?
April 2026 : Our latest publication CHIRP is selected as highlight in CVPR 2026 (pre-print). This paper is largest dataset to date for solving AI problems for long-term behavior monitoring. The paper also offers a new method COBRA to detect identities in birds using color rings.
March 2026 - Invited talk at the Technical University of Munich ( Chair of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ) (23.03.2026)
March 2026 - Shorty story performance at „Niemand hat gefragt. Wir erzählen trotzdem“ : Bobby the Blackbuck at Karl der Grosse – das Debattierhaus Zurich (21.03.2026)