Jonas Vestby
Senior Researcher at PRIO
Sør-Odal, Innlandet, Norway
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Top SchoolJonas Vestby is a senior researcher with a decade of experience at PRIO, specializing in quantitative studies of how climate and development interact with armed conflict across both short-term prediction and long-term forecasting horizons. With a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo, he combines causal inference, machine learning, and GIS to produce rigorous, policy-relevant insights. He is primarily a hands-on R programmer, translating complex spatial and temporal data into reproducible analyses and models. Jonas’s work sits at the intersection of academia and applied conflict research, informing practitioners while pushing methodological boundaries. Based in Sør-Odal, Norway, he brings a pragmatic mindset to high-dimensional problems and an eye for subtle data-driven signals that precede violent events.
10 years of coding experience
University of Oslo
Github Skills (4)
grid9
replication8
api1
frontend1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
prio-data/prediction_competition_2023
Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
Code for generating benchmark models and evaluation scripts for the 2023 VIEWS prediction competition
Contributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 13 PRs in 11 months
kvelleby/poldat
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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