Sicily Bambini Fiennes

I'm Sicily, a second year PhD student at the University of Leeds, on the Leverhulme Extinction Studies Program. My doctoral research focuses on the Asian Songbird Crisis as a phenomenon, but specifically songbird trade in the global songbird trade hotspot, Indonesia. I am also exploring building machine learning tools to optimize species identification in bird marketplaces, which has many applications for monitoring the wildlife trade. I am traditionally a conservation biologist by training but have now shifted to a more interdisciplinary research focus, working across the various fields of conservation social science, political ecology, computer science and design.