Julien Vollering
Associate Professor
Vestland, Norway
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Top SchoolJulien Vollering is an ecologist and associate professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, combining nine years of academic experience with expertise in species distribution modeling and spatial data science. He leads research on peatland carbon mapping—particularly scalable peat depth mapping—while teaching landscape ecology and contributing to conservation planning and invasive plant ecology. Trained at UC Berkeley, Leiden, and the University of Oslo, his work bridges field ecology and computational methods using R, QGIS, Quarto and his maintained R package MIAmaxent. Originally from California and shaped by research stints from Svalbard to New Guinea, he brings a global perspective and practical field experience to large-area remote sensing and applied Bayesian and machine learning approaches. Outside academia he’s an avid road cyclist, often blending long rides with idea-generation for modeling challenges.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Molecular Environmental Biology, Bachelor's Degree, Molecular Environmental Biology at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology at University of OsloMaster's Degree, Biology, Master's Degree, Biology at Leiden UniversityCate School
English, Dutch, Norwegian
Github Skills (24)
r-package10
meta-analysis10
traits10
knitr9
unconf8
journal7
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cvs5
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latex4
paper4
rmarkdown4
bookdown3
resume3
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
julienvollering/MIAmaxent
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
R package
Contributions:14 releases, 183 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years
r-packagerstatsknitrmeta-analysistraits
julienvollering/conifer-plantation-spread
May 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:61 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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