I am a PhD candidate in Animal Ecology, where my research sits at the intersection of movement ecology, spatial modelling, and forest management. My project investigates how landscape composition and configuration shape moose (Alces alces) habitat use, behavioral decisions, and browsing pressure in boreal Sweden, integrating GPS telemetry and accelerometer data with multi-scale spatial analysis across a latitudinal gradient.
My background in Environmental Engineering, with years of experience as a consultant working on land-use and renewable energy projects, gives me a perspective I see as genuinely complementary to movement ecology. Trained to assess infrastructure impacts and conduct environmental impact assessments, I developed a concrete understanding of how human decisions alter landscapes at scale, and growing awareness of what this means for the wildlife living within them. That shift in perspective, from the infrastructure side of land use to the ecological consequences for animals, is what led me to my PhD and deepened my commitment to understanding how wildlife navigates anthropogenic landscapes and why it matters for mitigating conflict and implementing management decisions.
My PhD draws on GPS and accelerometer data from collared moose across multiple study sites spanning 11 degrees of latitude in Sweden. Working across multiple spatial scales, I examine how landscape structure, from the configuration of young forest patches within winter ranges to broad latitudinal gradients in habitat heterogeneity, shapes where moose move, forage, and concentrate their use and time. Beyond habitat selection, I investigate the behavioral mechanisms underlying these patterns, spatial cognition, whether moose return to previously visited patches across years, and what this reveals about memory, site fidelity, and the predictability of browsing pressure in managed forests.
