
Erik Kusch
(+45) 60 90 60 12 | erik@i-solution.de | 0000-0002-4984-7646 | www.erikkusch.com | ErikKusch | KuschErik | Kusch Erik
Research Profile
I am a macroecologist specialised in remote sensing applications and spatio-temporal analyses. I use quantitative tools to research
ecosystem resilience, vegetation dynamics, and patterns of landscape-scale biodiversity to understand past, present, and future
trajectories of natural ecosystems. Current work includes identification of species-interaction networks, soware development for
climate data retrieval and aggregation, and propagation of uncertainty of climatic data into biological analyses.
Education
PhD in Biology; Specialisation on Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity 01/2020 - PRESENT
Primary Advisor: Alejandro Ordonez (AU)
External Supervision: Roberto Salguero-Gómez (OX)
Contents: Climate data practices in biological research
Species interaction inference and network modelling
Species extinction and extinction cascade simulations
M.Sc. in Biology; Specialisation on Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution 08/2017 - 08/2019
Primary Advisor: Alistair Seddon (UiB)
External Supervision: Richard Davy (Nansen)
Thesis: Inferring Vegetation Memory from Remote Sensing Data and identifying Causal Links to Plant Function
B.Sc. in Biology 10/2013 - 07/2017
Primary Advisor: Alistair Seddon (UiB)
Secondary Supervision: Klaus Reinhardt (TUD)
Thesis: Remote Sensing And Predicting Shis In Biome Distribution And Resilience Using NDVI Data
Specialised Training
7th Edition Species Distribution Modelling Course Évora, Portugal
26/04/2021 - 02/05/2021
An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics Glasgow, Scotland
06/04/2021 - 16/04/2021
Modelling Challenges for Mountain Ecosystems Hamburg, Germany
23/02/2020 - 28/02/2020
Plant Functional Traits Course 3 Wayquecha Biological Station, Peru
08/03/2018 - 24/03/2018
Bayesian Modelling Summer School Lygra, Norway
25/10/2017 - 29/10/2017
Experience
Research Station Co-Manager Scoraig, Scotland
06/2019 - PRESENT
Research Fellow Bergen, Norway
09/2019 - 12/2019
National Park Ranger & Environmental Education Guide Saxony, Germany
04/2016 - 06/2016
Research and Teaching Assistant
08/2017 - 08/2019; 03/2017 - 04/2017
07/2018
05/2017 - 07/2017