Group Members

Staff

Silvia Caldararu

Loosely in charge
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  • Assistant professor in climate science, June 2022 - present
  • Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, 2015-2022
  • Postdoc Microsoft Research Cambridge, 2013 -2015
  • PhD School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, 2013

Josua Seitz

Carbon dynamics in grasslands
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  • PhD student, January 2023 - present
  • MSc Umea University, 2022

Midori Yajima

From species to ecosystem phenology in a changing climate
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  • PhD student, March 2024 - present
  • Visiting Researcher, Trinity College Dublin, 2021 - 2023
  • MSc Ecology, Sapienza University of Rome, 2018 - 2020

Gayathri Girish Nair

Integrating data and models for diversity, land use and climate
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  • PhD student, September 2024 - present
  • MSc Computer Science (Data Science), Trinity College Dublin, 2023 - 2024
  • Machine Learning Engineer, Commtel Networks, 2022-2023

Luke Daly

Plant trait plasticity from models and manipulative experiment networks
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  • PhD student, September 2024 - present
  • Research assistant, University College Dublin, 2022-2024
  • BSc Biology, Maynooth University

Camille Abadie

Modeling ecosystem demography and competition processes to improve ecological realism
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  • Postdoctoral researcher, January 2025 - present
  • PhD, Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment (LSCE), 2021 - 2024
  • MSc Environmental Sciences, AgroParisTech - Paris-Saclay University, 2017 - 2021

Rebecca Rivera

Fungi and other microorganisms as indicators of Irish peatland response to climate change, health, and restoration (main supervisor Carla Harper)
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  • PhD student, September 2022 - present
  • BA Environmental Science, Trinity College Dublin, 2022

Carmen Watkins

Forecasting tree resistance to pathogens; facilitative interactions and species coexistence in grasslands
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  • Postdoctoral researcher, August 2025 - present
  • PhD Biology, University of Oregon, 2025
  • BSc Biology, University of Minnesota, 2019

Stephen Byrne

Carbon dynamics in forestry (main supervisor Matt Saunders)
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  • PhD student, September 2022 - present
  • BA Trinity College Dublin, 2020

Alumni

Gabriela Sophiam PhD student 2021-2026 Thesis on “Next-generation ecosystem models to simulate acclimation of plant nutrient-use strategies to global change”. Now a postdoctoral researcher in the AmazonFACE project

Master and Bachelor Students

Aisling Brophy, 2023 The effect of drought stress on the photosynthesis of two major food crops

Yannick Glosser, 2023 Teaching, Visualizing, and Interacting with Very Large Climate Models (School of Computer Science and Statistics, in collaboration with Prof. Brendan Tangney)

Martha Delaney, 2024 Insights into Ecosystem Flux Dynamics A Comparative Study of Australian and European Variable Correlations and Predictors Using Random Forest Models

Alicia Brophy, 2024 Effect of elevated CO2 on carbon storage in three Irish forest sites from a land surface model

Damian Pawlowski, 2024 Enhancing Carbon Sequestration An Integrated Approach Using Big Data Modelling in Tree Species

Gayathri Girish Nair, 2024 MycroForest – Exploring the use of a microworld to teach about economic viability of climate aware forest management (School of Computer Science and Statistics, in collaboration with Prof. Brendan Tangney)

Savannah Ewohime Okojie, 2025 A Data-Driven Evaluation of Carbon Sequestration in Irish Soil Types with a Focus on Land Cover Type.

Jonathan Hall, 2025 Predicting Gross Primary Productivity in Forest Ecosystems During the 2020 Warm Winter - A Machine Learning Analysis of FLUXNET Eddy Covariance Flux Data

Samuel Isijola, 2025 Predicting Vegetation Biomass Using Environmental Variables - A Machine Learning Approach

Tara Mannon, 2025 The impacts of urbanisation and land use on tree phenology in the Greater Dublin Area

Anastasia Gallagher, 2026 Analysing the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Forest Health Across Ten European National Parks Using Remote Sensing

Finn Kelly McHugh, 2026