Jasper de Bie

Jasper received his MScs in Marine biology and Climate physics at the Universities of Groningen and Utrecht (the Netherlands).

With a keen interest in fish ecology, he joined the University of Southampton (UK), where he started his PhD in Environmental Engineering, studying fish behavioural response to hydrodynamics in the context of freshwater fish migration.

After completion of his PhD he worked as a Research Fellow on a research project where, through an experimental and agent-based modelling approach, European eel behaviour migratory routes through tidal areas and rivers could be predicted.

He is currently working at the Griffith Centre for Coastal Management on the Gold Coast (Aus) as a Research Fellow studying the effects of climate change on humpback whale migration. When he’s not busy with science, he enjoys outdoors sporting activities, and he’s also trying to improve his underwater photography skills.