Advisory Board 2025

Diego is a researcher and lecturer at the Ecology Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He is a member of the ISE Board since its foundation in 2014 and was president of the 5th World Congress of Ecoacoustics (Madrid, 2024). For more than 20 years, he has been devoting his scientific career to ecoacoustics and bioacoustics in several countries (Spain, France, Brazil, USA, etc.). From an evolutionary ecology perspective of acoustic communication, his research aims at improving our capacity to assess global change impacts on biodiversity, with the development and application of novel acoustic techniques. He is currently coordinating the Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG-UAM).

Camille is a researcher in Ecoacoustics. Her work consists in studying sounds emanating from ecosystems, communities and populations in order to understand their diversity and evolution and interpreting ecological dynamics and functioning. She strives to understand how the biotic and abiotic environment affect acoustic signaling in animals. She is particularly interested in the dynamics of acoustic communities and the effect of social interactions on acoustic signals. She is currently conducting two main lines of research: developing methods of passive acoustic monitoring in various environments (including freshwater) and understanding the role of socially mediated plasticity in rapid adaptation and reproductive isolation. Visit her website here.

Tom is a Senior Conservation Scientist with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK. As a landscape ecologist, he is interested in how land use and land-use change affect biodiversity, and how we can balance the needs of wildlife and humans. Much of Tom’s work involves acoustics and he has developed or contributed to a range of best practice guidance in this area.

Louise is a UK-based sound artist and documentarist, who trained as an anthropologist in Berlin, Copenhagen and Montreal. She produces the podcast ‘Circle of Voices’, where she releases immersive audio documentaries, short stories and ecological sound art, crafted as invitations to dream deeper into thriving futures, where humans remember their place and responsibility in the circle of life. She also covers UN biodiversity conferences as an independent reporter. She is passionate about bringing the sounds of the living world to more ears and hearts, and uplifting stories of resilience in times of collapse, crisis and renewal. Visit her website.

Nina is an ecologist from Brazil, currently based in Australia. Her research focuses on using technology and data — particularly ecoacoustics — to understand broad ecological patterns and support biodiversity conservation. She is especially interested in applying ecoacoustics to landscape ecology and in developing methods to improve data summarisation for sound ecological inference. Nina aims to make these technologies more accessible for land management, ecosystem conservation, and biodiversity monitoring through collaboration and open-science initiatives.

Tom is a specialist in wild soundscapes working on an interdisciplinary level as a composer, sound designer and field recordist within the creative industries, and an ecoacoustician and soundscape ecologist in the ecological sciences. Since 2012 he has created work under the pseudonym Missing Wolf, and in 2017 became an associate of Wild Sanctuary Inc., a global leader in soundscape art and research founded by Dr Bernie Krause. A Churchill Fellow in Science and Innovation, Tom has led soundscape research in remote regions of the world. He is currently conducting PhD research at Falmouth University, UK, that seeks to enhance how ecoacoustics engages with ecological change by developing qualitative methods to analyse and track transformations in soundscapes over time.

Xavier is a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University. His research focuses on aquatic soundscapes, with a particular interest in global patterns of underwater acoustic environments. He has conducted studies in diverse ecosystems, including Brazilian freshwater systems as well as Mediterranean, Mexican, and Polynesian marine habitats, examining how soundscapes vary with depth, protection status, and distance from shore. Additionally, he is interested in assessing the spatio-temporal distribution of species such as minke whales, fish, and small odontocetes using passive acoustic monitoring. Visit his website.

Distinguished Professor Lin Schwarzkopf is an ecologist at James Cook University.. She earned her PhD from the University of Sydney in 1991 and has been a professor since 2012. Her research encompasses broad ecological and evolutionary questions, often adopting an integrative approach to address applied problems. She began using acoustics as a method to attract and trap cane toads, and this grew into a wider interest in using environmental sound in ecology. She helped establish the Australian Acoustic Observatory, a country-wide network of 250 acoustic sensors, intended to monitor biodiversity.  Recently, she has been focusing her efforts on enabling monitoring using this data.

Dr. Oliver Metcalf is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lancaster University in the UK. His main research focus is using ecoacoustics to study the ecology of the Amazon rainforest, with a particular interest in developing applied acoustic methods that are effective in highly speciose environments. His ecoacoustic research spans acoustic indices, machine learning, and manual listening methods. He is also a keen birder and ornithologist, with much of his spare time spent using acoustics to monitor local breeding bird populations, or looking for rare migrants. 

David is a sound artist, researcher and ecoacoustic composer. He has been developing his multidisciplinary project Fragments of Extinction for nearly 15 years, conducting field research in the world’s remaining areas of undisturbed primary equatorial rainforest. The recipient of multiple awards throughout Europe and North America, Monacchi is pioneering a new compositional approach based on 3D soundscape recordings of ecosystems to foster discourse on the biodiversity crisis through music and sound-art installations. A Fulbright fellow at UC Berkeley (CA) in 2007, he has taught at the University of Macerata (IT) since 2000 and is now professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition and Eco-acoustics at the Conservatorio “G. Rossini” of Pesaro (IT). [website]