DR. MAYA IYER · COMPUTATIONAL ECOLOGY

Models for decisions made in the real world.

I study how ecological systems respond to heat, migration and imperfect data.
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19
peer-reviewed papers
2800+
citations
6
open datasets

Selected research

Papers, datasets and reproducible research repositories can live together here.

Nature Cities · Python

Urban Heat Atlas

A 22-city model linking canopy loss to neighbourhood heat exposure.

Methods in Ecology · R

Migration under Noise

Bayesian movement estimates from incomplete acoustic records.

Dataset · Quarto

Open Marsh

A versioned dataset and field protocol used by 14 labs.

Current question

When does a locally accurate model produce a globally poor decision?

Open to

Postdoctoral collaborators, field sites and policy partnerships.

Questions over titles

  1. 2024—Now

    Principal Investigator · Centre for Climate Systems

    Urban heat, open models and policy translation.

  2. 2021—2024

    Research Fellow · Eastern Institute

    Movement ecology and uncertainty quantification.

  3. 2017—2021

    PhD · University of Delhi

    Remote sensing of fragmented wetlands.

Associate Editor

PhD Ecology

University of Delhi · 2021

Open Science Grant

Principal investigator · 2025

Associate Editor

Journal of Urban Ecology

A model is only useful in context.

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