Talk 3
XI Workshop of Probability and Statistics group
CIDMA- University of Aveiro
Speaker: Tiago Marques - FCUL & University of St. Andrews
Title of the talk: Living on the edge: snapshots of a career listening at the interface between ecology and statistics
Tiago Marques is Senior Research Fellow at University of St Andrews (UStA), works on ecological statistics, namely estimating animal abundance, focusing nowadays on passive acoustic density estimation. Invited lecturer in the Animal Biology Department in Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), teaching statistics to biologists at the under and postgraduate level. Biology major (1998, DZA, FCUL), MSc in Probability and Statistics (2002, DEIO, FCUL) and PhD in Statistics (2007, UStA, UK). Currently on the executive board of the Portuguese Statistical Society (SPE) and former deputy-director for Centre for Statistics and Applications (CEAUL). External funding secured as PI or co-PI: +£130k and +$US 3.8M. Consultant on several international projects, including polar bears (Canada, Greenland, USA, Norway and Russia), whales (Greenland, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas and Hawaii) and hares (Ireland), responsible for survey design, field work and data analysis. Instructor on 20+ international workshops on abundance estimation and 10+ R workshops. Work output includes 100+ peer-reviewed international papers (SCOPUS: +4200 citations, h-index 30), 4 book chapters, 1 book on distance sampling methods and 1 in preparation book on passive acoustic density estimation (both for Springer’s Series Methods in Statistical Ecology). 170+ congress contributions and 70+ invited talks, 20+ invited science outreach talks and 20+ guest lectures. Referee of 130+ papers for 65+ venues. Supervised/supervising 7/2 PhD and 17/3 MSc students. Participated in 30+ external committee memberships. Co-author of Distance for Windows, the industry standard software for distance sampling analysis.
CIÊNCIAVITAE ID: 161F-0DDB-81E2
ORCID: 0000-0002-2581-1972
SCOPUS Author ID: 6603703024