José Paris
Senior Lecturer at IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Thematic Group
New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJosé Paris is a Senior Lecturer and ecosystem data scientist at UNSW with 11 years of research experience applying information technology to biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management. He co-developed the Global Ecosystem Typology, a function-based framework now informing international policy and natural capital accounting, and serves on the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems scientific committee. His work builds digital knowledge bases from diverse ecological data—species records, camera-trap histories, interactions and traits—to produce indicators used for risk assessment, restoration planning and national reporting. He combines rigorous ecological theory from a PhD in ecology with practical implementation across Australian landscapes, working with public, private and Indigenous land managers. Less obvious is his track record of turning complex, multi-source ecological datasets into actionable policy tools that bridge academic research and on-the-ground conservation practice.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecología, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecología at Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones CientíficasDiplom-Biologe, Zoology/Animal Biology, Diplom-Biologe, Zoology/Animal Biology at University of BayreuthDiploma Biologe, Ecology, Diploma Biologe, Ecology at Universität BayreuthBachillerato, Ciencias, Bachillerato, Ciencias at Colegio Claret, Maracaibo
Spanish, German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (54)
webapp9
versioning9
version-control8
stable8
r-package8
traits7
r7
scientific-publications7
gis7
zenodo7
spatial6
diet6
shapefile6
database6
research-data-management6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
red-list-ecosystem/typology-map-content
Nov 2019 - Feb 2026
Contributions:9 PRs, 316 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
ces-unsw-edu-au/fireveg-db-imports
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Fire Ecology database - Code for database imports and data curation
Contributions:65 commits, 16 PRs, 84 pushes in 11 months
databasefirepythonvegetation-dynamics
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