Adrian Bach is a PhD student at the crossing of conservation science, social sciences and modelling at the University of Stirling (UK). With a background in evolutionary biology and ecological systems modelling, his research interest first leaned towards Self-Organisation with the study of collective diet choices in ant colonies and of collective motion in locusts using agent-based models of group mouvement.

Now based between Glasgow and Marseille, he develops his modelling skills in more multi-disciplinary context. A part of his PhD questions the equity of management policies when an endangered species impacts human activities. He worked on a software combining agent-based modelling and artificial intelligence to simulate the impacts of stakeholders’ decision-making on animal population dynamics and land-users’ livelihood. The other part aims at enlarging the scope of a species conservation to its environment by building an agent-based model predicting the consequences of a species’ management on the food web it is part of.

The residency at Cove Park will be a writing retreat to tie these works together into a relevant thesis, as well as a time of reflection on the importance and political implications of fairness in conservation policy-making.