Erik Kusch
Advisor at CICERO - Center for International Climate Research
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolErik Kusch is a macroecologist and statistician with eight years of interdisciplinary experience building statistical methodology and digital twin infrastructure for climate and biodiversity research. Currently advising at CICERO and serving as Senior Engineer at the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo, he bridges advanced computational consulting with research infrastructure coordination for international teams. His PhD in computational biology and track record of applying state-of-the-art climate reanalysis products reflect deep expertise in reproducible data pipelines and bespoke analyses, often implemented in R. Erik combines field experience—from primate behaviour to Antarctic benthos—with a focus on making high-quality climate data accessible and usable, which grounds his models in real-world systems. He is known for interactive data communication and leading collaborative projects across academia and research institutions, quietly favoring pragmatic, open tools that accelerate research uptake.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, PhD at Aarhus UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, A - first class honours, Master of Science - MS, Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, A - first class honours at Universitetet i Bergen (UiB)Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biologie, allgemein, A - first class honours, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biologie, allgemein, A - first class honours at Technische Universität Dresden
German, English, French, Norwegian, Japanese
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Github Skills (53)
preprocessing10
r-package10
climate-science10
era510
forecasts10
noaa10
medium10
spatial8
data-handling8
rmarkdown8
rstudio8
terra8
hugo-theme8
r8
netlify8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ErikKusch/An-Introduction-to-Biostatistics-Using-R
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
ErikKusch/KrigR
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
An R Package for downloading, preprocessing, and statistical downscaling of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts ReAnalysis 5 (ERA5) family provided by the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
Contributions:4 releases, 306 commits, 55 PRs in 3 years
r-packagedownloadingweather-forecastseuropeanstatistical
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