Bowy den Braber is a postdoctoral researcher for the BRIGHT-Futures project in the Department of Sustainable Use of Natural Resources at the University of Hohenheim. He has been trained as an animal ecologist, but has gradually shifted his research interest to the intersection of environment and human wellbeing. His work is mostly quantitative and he employs methods from a wide variety of disciplines including econometrics, geo-information, remote sensing, and machine learning. Bowy completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield (UK) where he assessed the socio-economic and environmental impacts of protected areas in Nepal and Brazil. More recently, his postdoctoral work at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) uncovered how trees inside and outside of forests could improve people’s dietary quality in Africa and India, and explored whether trees can mitigate negative effects of climate-related shocks such as floods and droughts.
