Will Pearse
Reader In Evolutionary Ecology at Imperial College London
Bracknell, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWill Pearse is a Reader in Evolutionary Ecology at Imperial College London with 14 years' experience applying computational methods to biodiversity and disease forecasting. He leads a lab that bridges biology and computer science to build monitoring and predictive tools used by charities, government agencies, and businesses to inform decision-making. Trained at Cambridge and Imperial (PhD in Ecology, Evolution, Conservation and Bioinformatics), he has held faculty and postdoctoral roles across North America and the UK, giving him a strong track record in collaborative, policy-relevant research. Known among colleagues as a self-described "geeky" coder (who admits to being dreadful at typing), he combines deep domain expertise with practical software development to translate complex ecological data into actionable insight.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Ecology, Evolution, Conservation, Bioinformatics, PhD, Ecology, Evolution, Conservation, Bioinformatics at Imperial College LondonBSc/MA, Zoology, BSc/MA, Zoology at Cambridge University
Github Skills (72)
thesaurus10
r10
open-access10
r-package10
signal-processing9
audio9
database9
phylogeny9
pyaudioanalysis9
feature-extraction9
ecology9
tuple9
metadata9
forecast9
closed9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ropensci/suppdata
Jul 2015 - Nov 2021
Grabbing SUPPlementary DATA in R
Contributions:2 releases, 94 commits, 25 PRs in 6 years 5 months
rrstatsr-package
pearselab/MADcomm
May 2017 - Feb 2020
Make A Database of ecological communities
Contributions:19 PRs, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
database
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