DrFrancis Windram
Research Associate
Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park) - Faculty of Natural Sciences
Orcid identifier0000-0002-2129-826X (opens in a new tab)
- Research AssociateDepartment of Life Sciences (Silwood Park) - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- 1.8, Centre for Population Biology, Silwood Park, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
My research tends to focus on three major fields:
1) Developing methods to aid researchers in fast, high-throughput analysis
2) Biological imaging and image analysis, particularly in adverse conditions
3) Trait-based approaches to ecological interactions
Good tools make good science easier, more accessible, and more reproducible. Day-to-day, the current focus of my work is on developing tooling (e.g. R packages) to aid vector-borne disease researchers in accessing and linking across multiple data sources. I also specialise in taking existing manual processing tasks from a variety of different fields and creating automated or semi-automated methods for quickly performing these tasks.
Further to this, I am particularly interested in novel analysis of image morphology and colourimetry from data collecting in challenging environments. This mostly takes the form of visible light and hyperspectral field photography, however I also have experience analysing LIDAR shadows and teleimaging from Antarctic boreholes. I tend to focus on metrics of images that are directly and mechanistically related to physical or biological phenomena.
1) Developing methods to aid researchers in fast, high-throughput analysis
2) Biological imaging and image analysis, particularly in adverse conditions
3) Trait-based approaches to ecological interactions
Good tools make good science easier, more accessible, and more reproducible. Day-to-day, the current focus of my work is on developing tooling (e.g. R packages) to aid vector-borne disease researchers in accessing and linking across multiple data sources. I also specialise in taking existing manual processing tasks from a variety of different fields and creating automated or semi-automated methods for quickly performing these tasks.
Further to this, I am particularly interested in novel analysis of image morphology and colourimetry from data collecting in challenging environments. This mostly takes the form of visible light and hyperspectral field photography, however I also have experience analysing LIDAR shadows and teleimaging from Antarctic boreholes. I tend to focus on metrics of images that are directly and mechanistically related to physical or biological phenomena.