Eric Berlow
Global Future Council On Innovative Financing For Nature And Climate
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Berlow is an ecologist-turned-data entrepreneur who leads Vibrant Data Labs and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council to advance innovative financing for nature and climate. He blends rigorous ecological research—authoring highly-cited papers in Nature, Science and PNAS—with practical data-product experience from founding a visualization startup acquired by Rakuten and later leading product innovation there. Eric builds public, philanthropy-backed data tools to reveal funding gaps and drive evidence-based climate investment, deliberately pairing modern data science with scientific rigor and ethical guardrails. A longtime convener between academia, government, and industry—founding UC’s Yosemite research institute and working with USGS—he brings a rare mix of field ecology, complexity science, and product leadership. As an Emerson Collective Climate Fellow and former TED and Humboldt Fellow, he combines influential scholarship with a talent for translating complex systems into actionable insights.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Post Doctoral Research Scientist Ecology of Alpine Ecosystems, Post Doctoral Research Scientist Ecology of Alpine Ecosystems at University of California, BerkeleyB.A. Biology, B.A. Biology at Brown UniversityPh.D. Community Ecology / Marine Ecology, Ph.D. Community Ecology / Marine Ecology at Oregon State University
Github Skills (16)
anaconda10
development-environment9
language-server-protocol9
qt9
spyder9
pyqt9
python-development9
ide9
python8
network-visualization7
jupyter-widget7
visualization6
altair6
player5
docker4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vibrant-data-labs/py2mappr
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
generate openmappr interactive network visualization from python
Contributions:2 reviews, 94 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 1 month
pythonnetwork-visualizationjupyter-widgetaltairvisualization
ericberlow/SciFi
Dec 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 10 months
pythonscinovelssci-fi
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