PhD Studentship: Integrating Machine Learning with One Health Frameworks to Quantify Disease Transmission Pathways between Wildlife and the Environment
University of Exeter Exeter £21,805 pa
An interdisciplinary PhD co-designing miniaturised, low-power sensing hardware with AI for field-based wildlife monitoring, including individual recognition and automated behaviour quantification. Systems are benchmarked in controlled conditions then validated on wild jackdaws and West African field sites, spanning behavioural ecology, electronic engineering and data science.