Instructors

Cole Brookson (he/him)

Cole is a MSc student in the department of Biological Sciences. He is a computational ecologist, and works on both theoretical and applied questions, usually related to food webs, climate change, and sometimes disease dynamics. He mainly performs his work in Python, R, Julia, and sometimes C/C++. Cole is passionate about Open Science, computational education, and caffeine.

Emma Atkinson (she/her)

Emma is a PhD student in the Biological Sciences department supervised by Mark Lewis. She works on research questions to do with the population dynamics and fisheries management of marine invertebrates. When she’s not coding in R, she likes to cycle, run, and spend time on the water.