Nils Ratnaweera

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate at the Research Group for Geoinformatics

www.zhaw.ch/iunr/geoinformatik

Educational background

Bc.S. in Natural Resource Sciences (2013) at Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Mc.S. Life Sciences Specialisation in Natural Resource Sciences (2017) at Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Professional milestones

2016 - 2019 Research Assistant at the Research Group for Geoinformatics at Zurich University of Applied Sciences
2013 Field Assistant in the Roe Deer Projekt of the University of Zurich
2010 Group Leader at Bergwaldprojekt
2009 Intern at the Centro Ecologico Akumal
2008 - 2009 Intern at the Great Basin Institute

Membership of networks

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Wildtierbiologie (SGW)

Projects

• Automatisierte zeitliche und räumliche Kartierung von Bodenerosion auf Graslandflächen der Schweiz / Team member / Project ongoing
• Energy Kiosk / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Klimawandelauswirkungen im Pfefferanbau - eine globale Eignungsanalyse / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Biodiversität im Grünland / Team member / Project ongoing
• DSembedded: Integrating discipline-specific Know How into Data Stewardship / Team member / Project ongoing
• Wildlife@Campus Grüental - kleine Säugetiere im Fokus / Team member / Project completed
• Bikeability in Schweizer Städten und deren Agglomeration unter dem Einfluss der e-Mobilität / Team member / Project completed
• Cultural Mapping 4.0 – Innovative Wege zur Stärkung der kulturellen Identität der Bodenseeregion / Team member / Project completed
• Wirkungskontrolle Hermelin Wallis / Team member / Project completed
• Räumliche Datenbank für Wiesel & Co am Zimmerberg / Project leader / Project completed
• Zeckenstichmodell 18-20 für geo.admin.ch / Team member / Project completed
• histoTools - GIS-Tools für die Erschliessung historischer Kartenwerke / Team member / Project completed
• Pflanzendatenbank-App / Team member / Project completed
• Überarbeitung des GIS-Modells zur Bonitierung der Fischereireviere im Kanton Zürich / Team member / Project completed
• Erstellung einer Zecken-Gefahrenkarte und statistische Untersuchung von Zeckenstichdaten / Team member / Project completed
• TubeCam / Project leader / Project completed
• Prävention von Wildtierunfällen auf Verkehrsinfrastrukturen / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Laube, Patrick; Ratnaweera, Nils; Wróbel, Anna; Kaelin, Ivo; Stephani, Annette; Reifler-Baechtiger, Martina; Graf, Roland F.; Suter, Stefan,

  2023.

  Analysing and predicting wildlife–vehicle collision hotspots for the Swiss road network.

  Landscape Ecology.

  38(7), pp. 1765-1783.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01655-5

• Gygax, Gregory; Ratnaweera, Nils; Tischhauser, Werner; Smits, Theo H. M.; Laube, Patrick; Ott, Thomas,

  2023.

  An oracle for the optimization of underconstrained compositions of neural networks : the tick hazard use case [paper].

  In:

  Schneider, Johannes Josef; Weyland, Mathias Sebastian; Flumini, Dandolo; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel, eds.,

  Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation.

  XV International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 September 2021.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 24-31.

  Communications in Computer and Information Science ; 1722.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_3

• Ratnaweera, Nils; Ratnaweera, Roman; Früh, Daniel,

  2017.

  Developing a new method to detect small mustelids.

  In:

  Book of abstracts : 32nd European Mustelid Colloquium.

  32nd European Mustelid Colloquium, Lyon, France, 15-17 November 2017.

  Available from: https://32mustelidscol.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Book_of_Abstracts_32EMC_1.pdf

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