Lian Pin Koh is Assistant Professor of Applied Ecology and Conservation at the ETH Zürich. He received his PhD in 2008 from Princeton University. Research within his group focuses on addressing emerging environmental and socioeconomic challenges facing tropical developing nations including intensifying land-use conflicts, carbon emissions from land-use change and forestry, and threats to natural ecosystems and wildlife. Lian Pin employs a variety of scientific approaches including field surveys, experiments, and developing theoretical and computer simulation models. Lian Pin is a co-founder of ConservationDrones.org.

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