Wanja Rast

TEAM

Wildlife biologist and AI specialist at Leibniz-IZW

I like science that generates knowledge that can be applied to solve problems and help with general conservation issues.

Photos by Jan Zwilling/Leibniz-IZW and Jon A. Juarez

Wanja is a behavioural biologist turned AI specialist focusing on using AI to understand animal behaviour. He received his Master’s degree on AI-based classification of animal behaviour from biologger data. Within GAIA, Wanja is working on all things AI related from the biological side and is the link between biologists and engineers.

Professional experience

Since 2017 part of various projects at the IZW and PhD student since 2022. Expert in using AI to analyse animal biologging data to extract behaviour information. Deep understanding of animal behaviour observation.

Education

Bachelor and Master in Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin
Academic studies of Ecology and Evolution at the Humboldt University in Berlin

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FUNDED PROJECTS

GAIA-Sat-IoT - Guardian of the Wild using Artificial Intelligence Applications and Satellite-based IoT Networks

WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Research on African vulture species

WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Social Foraging

TECHNOLOGIES & APPROACHES

Artificial intelligence for behaviour detection from sensor data of animal tags

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