Curriculum Vitae Jasper Eikelboom
Profile 
| Full name: | dr. Jasper Arend Jan Eikelboom MSc MA |
| First name: | Jasper |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Driving license: | A-B |
| E-mail: | jasper.eikelboom@gmail.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5107-4427 |
| Google Scholar: | sO2ZvSwAAAAJ |
| LinkedIn: | jaspereikelboom |
| ResearchGate: | Jasper_Eikelboom |
Expertise
- quantitative ecology
- wildlife conservation
- data science
- animal behaviour
- mathematical modelling
Experience
March 2021 - Present
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands. Research about the thermo-ecology and predator-prey dynamics of tropical ungulates, focusing on movement ecology and artificial intelligence. Initiator and leader of international research collaboration with 38 ecologists and conservationists on the behavioural thermoregulation of savanna grazers and mixed-feeders in the face of climate change, using tracking data from 999 individual animals of 15 different species.
January 2017 - March 2021
PhD Candidate at the Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands. Research on animal movement with the goal to infer the animals' internal state and surrounding environmental conditions. A hypotheses-free and data-driven study aimed at a deep and fundamental understanding of animal movement, but with an immediate goal to automatically detect poachers in a South African nature reserve with sensor-tagged ungulates connected through an IoT LoRa-network.
August 2015 - July 2016
2nd degree Mathematics and Arithmetic teacher at the first three years of pre-university secondary education at Ostrea Lyceum in Goes, Netherlands.
August 2013 - July 2015
1st degree Geography teacher at the final three years of pre-university secondary education & 2nd degree Mathematics teacher and mentor at the first three years of pre-university secondary education at CSG Reggesteyn in Nijverdal, Netherlands.
November 2012 - December 2013
Intern ethologist at AAP, Sanctuary for Exotic Animals in Almere, Netherlands. Research on the effect of interventions on abnormal behaviour in ex-laboratory chimpanzees.
November 2011 - October 2012
Intern biodiversity researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in Bilthoven, Netherlands and Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development in Utrecht, Netherlands. Statistical literature research about the indirect effects of infrastructure on biodiversity by performing a systematic review and meta-analyses.
May 2010 - June 2012
Mathematics test author at Cito in Arnhem, Netherlands. Mathematical questions for Harvard University (USA) grade 7 and 8 & the secondary education VAS-tests.
September 2011 - November 2011
Tutor and homework coach at Studiekring in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Pre-university secondary education in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and geography & homework coach for multiple students at the same time.
February 2011 - July 2011
2nd degree Geography teacher at the first year of pre-university secondary education at Vechtdal College in Hardenberg, Netherlands.
February 2010 - January 2011
Intern 2nd degree Geography teacher at the three first years of pre-university secondary education at Vechtdal College in Hardenberg, Netherlands.
Education
2017 - 2021
PhD: Quantitative Ecology, Wageningen University. Specialized in movement ecology and artificial intelligence, dissertation on sentinel animals for rhino poaching (promotores: prof. dr. Herbert Prins, prof. dr. Frank van Langevelde, prof. dr. Arjen Doelman & dr. Henjo de Knegt).
2014 - 2015
MA(Ed): Geography Education, Utrecht University. Educational Master for 1st degree Geography teacher in pre-university secondary education.
2011 - 2013
MSc: Environmental Biology, Utrecht University. Specialized in Conservation Biology (Ecology and Natural Resource Management & Behavioural Ecology program), thesis on Overpopulation (supervisors: prof. ir. Klaas van Egmond & dr. Marijke van Kuijk).
2008 - 2011
BSc: Earth Sciences, Utrecht University. Specialized in Climatology and Biogeology (bèta-plus-Biology program), thesis in Paleontology (supervisor: prof. dr. Jelle Reumer).
2010 - 2011
BSc(Ed): Geography Education, Utrecht University. Educational Minor for 2nd degree Geography teacher in pre-university secondary education.
Publications
- Linssen H., De Knegt H.J. & Eikelboom J.A.J. (2022). Movement of large African savanna herbivores is shaped by intricate interactions between behavioural modes and the spatial-temporal environment. bioRxiv preprint: 2022.12.19.521042.
- Ripple W.J., Wolf C., Newsome T.M., Gregg J.W., Lenton T.M., Palomo I., Eikelboom J.A.J., Law B.E., Huq S., Duffy P.B. & Rockström J. (2021). World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021. BioScience 71(9): 894-898.
- Eikelboom J.A.J. (2021). Sentinel animals: Enriching artificial intelligence with wildlife ecology to guard rhinos. PhD thesis, Wageningen University.
- De Knegt H.J.*, Eikelboom J.A.J.*, Van Langevelde F., Spruyt W.F. & Prins H.H.T. (2021). Timely poacher detection and localization using sentinel animal movement. Scientific Reports 11: 4596.
- Eikelboom J.A.J., De Knegt H.J., Klaver M., Van Langevelde F., Van der Wal T. & Prins H.H.T. (2020). Inferring an animal's environment through biologging: quantifying the environmental influence on animal movement. Movement Ecology 8: 40.
- Eikelboom J.A.J., Nuijten R.J.M., Wang Y.X.G., Schroder B., Heitkönig I.M.A., Mooij W.M., Van Langevelde F. & Prins H.H.T. (2020). Will legal international rhino horn trade save wild rhino populations? Global Ecology and Conservation 23: e01145.
- Li W., Funk M., Eikelboom J.A.J. & Brombacher A. (2020). Visual Exploration of Movement Relatedness for Multi-species Ecology Analysis. arXiv preprint: 2001.11163.
- Eikelboom J.A.J., Wind J., Van de Ven E., Kenana L.M., Schroder B., De Knegt H.J., Van Langevelde F. & Prins H.H.T. (2019). Improving the precision and accuracy of animal population estimates with aerial image object detection. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10(11): 1875-1887.
- Benítez-López A., Alkemade R., Schipper A.M., Ingram D.J., Verweij P.A., Eikelboom J.A.J. & Huijbregts M.A.J. (2017). The impact of hunting on tropical mammal and bird populations. Science 356(6334): 180-183.
- Eikelboom J.A.J. (2014). An essay on the ecological and socio-economic effects of the current and future global human population size. MSc thesis, Utrecht University.
Media
- Resource: Scientists4Future wants dialogue on collaboration with fossil industry (2023)
- Smithsonian: This Teenager Invented a Low-Cost Tool to Spot Elephant Poachers in Real Time (2022)
- Natur: Was ist schon wild? (2022)
- Algemeen Dagblad: 14.000 wetenschappers luiden noodklok over klimaat (2021)
- Het Parool: Wetenschapper over 'die bakken regen' van de afgelopen tijd (2021)
- Resource: Spotting wildlife on the computer (2021)
- De Ingenieur: Met gezenderd wild de stropers verslaan (2021)
- NPO Radio 1 Nieuwsweekend: Zender een zebra, vind een stroper (2021)
- De Volkskrant: Neushoornstropers vangen (2021)
- Resource: Big brother in the jungle (2019)
- Resource: Jacht rooft tropisch bos leeg (2017)
Projects
2021 - 2022
Invited interviewee and participant in targeted expert survey by the European Union to evaluate the EU Action Plan Against Wildlife Trafficking (WAP).
2013 - 2015
Board member, Facebook administrator and app developer for Overpopulation Awareness, the Netherlands. The goal of the foundation is to convince the Dutch citizen of the fact that overpopulation is the main cause of serious problems and should therefore be handled with priority.
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