About me

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My name is Michał Śmielak. I’m an wildlife biologist, working in the field handling animals and in the office wrangling data. Originally from Poland, over the years I have been involved in projects in Europe, Australia and Africa.

I am interested in various aspects of animal ecology, including (but not limited to) behavioural ecology of mammals, reptiles and amphibians, conservation, ecosystem management and human-wildlife conflicts.

I write code (mostly in R) to transform raw data collected in the field into results and conservation outcomes. I also build custom research equipment, often using Arduino and other open-source platforms, usually when there is no off-the-shelf solution to measure something and sometimes just for fun.

This website is hopefully going to be a repository of my various projects and a way to share them with fellow researchers.

Education

2014-

PhD candidate at the School of Environmental and Rural Sciences

University of New England in Armidale, Australia.

2006-2012

MSc in environmental protection, Inter-Faculty Studies in Environmental Protection (MSOŚ)

Centre for the Studies of Envoronment and Sustainability, Unviersity of Warsaw, Poland.