CURRICULUM VITAE FITSUM ABADI GEBRESELASSIE
Name: Fitsum Abadi Gebreselassie
Current Address: Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology
New Mexico State University
E-mail: fi[email protected]
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JYmAww4AAAAJ&hl=en
EDUCATION
Feb 2007 – June 2010 Ph.D., Ecology and Evolution (Quantitative), University of Bern, Switzerland
(Areas of concentration: Statistical modeling, wildlife demography, Bayesian inference)
Oct 2004 – Sep 2006 M.Sc., Applied Statistics & Biostatistics, Hasselt University, Belgium
Sep 2001 – June 2003 M.Sc., Statistics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Sep 1995 – June 1999 B.Sc., Statistics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Statistical ecology, Capture-recapture models, Integrated population models, Hierarchical models,
Bayesian inference
PROFESSIONAL/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Dec 2016 – Present Assistant Professor, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conserva-
tion Ecology, New Mexico State University (NMSU), USA
Jan 2014 – Nov 2016 Lecturer, School of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of
the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Jan 2013 – Dec 2013 Postdoctoral fellow, Animal Demography Unit, University of
Cape Town & South African National Biodiversity Institute
(SANBI), South Africa
Jan 2012 – Dec 2012 Postdoctoral fellow, Biostatistics & Biology of Populations
Group, Centre of Evolutionary & Functional Ecology (CEFE),
CNRS, France
Sep 2010 – Dec 2011 Postdoctoral fellow, Animal Demography Unit, University of
Cape Town & South African National Biodiversity Institute,
South Africa
Sep 2003 – Aug 2004 Lecturer, Hawassa University, Ethiopia
Aug. 1999 – Aug. 2001 Statistician, Africa Insurance Company, Ethiopia
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Dec 2016 – Present New Mexico State University, USA
- Instructor: Population Ecology, Ecological Biometry
Jan 2014 – Nov 2016 University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
- Lecturer: Biostatistics, Nonparametric statistics, Statistical research de-
sign and analysis
Feb 2007 – June 2010 University of Bern, Switzerland
- Teaching/Lab assistant: Habitat selection modeling, Capture-
recapture analysis using R and program MARK
Sept 2003 – Aug 2004 Hawassa University, Ethiopia
- Instructor: Introduction to probability and statistics, Statistical meth-
ods, Medical statistics, Statistical computing (SPSS)
Sept 2001 – June 2003 Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- Instructor (part-time): Introduction to probability and statistics, Statis-
tical computing (SPSS)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION/MEMBERSHIP
Ecological Society of America (May 2017 – Present)
The Wildlife Society (Sep 2017 - Present)
Honorary research associate, University of Cape Town, South Africa (April 2017 - Present)
Honorary research associate, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (Dec 2016 - June 2016)
PUBLICATIONS
Note that my name appears as Abadi, F. in publication.
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JYmAww4AAAAJ&hl=en
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Invited talks
Leveraging multiple data sources with hierarchical models symposium, The Wildlife Society and American
Fisheries Society 2019 Joint Annual Conference, 29 Sep - 03 Oct 2019, Reno, Nevada, USA
- Estimating Juvenile Survival of Emperor Penguins Using Bayesian Integrated Population
Modeling
Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, USA
- Overview of capture-recapture models (19 October 2017)
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Empowering population-level inference through study of avian life histories with integrated population
models symposium, North American Ornithological Conference VI, 16-20 August 2016, Washington,
D.C., USA
- An introduction to integrated population models in avian biology
Advances in design and analysis for seabird demographic studies symposium, 2
nd
World Seabird Confer-
ence, 26-30 October 2015, Cape Town, South Africa
- Estimation of demographic parameters of emperor penguin using integrated population
modeling
Joint Meeting of the Environmental Statistics Section of the Royal Statistics Society, the Biometric soci-
ety and the computational ecology group of the British ecology society, 24 September 2012, London,
England
- Combining demographic and population count data to estimate immigration rate and den-
sity dependence
Conference contributions
The 2019 Joint Meeting of the Association of Field Ornithologists and the Wilson Ornithological Society,
27-30 October 2019, Cape May, New Jersey, USA
137
th
Annual Meeting of the American Ornithological Society, 24-28 June 2019 Anchorage, Alaska, USA
148
th
Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, 19-23 August 2018, Atlantic City, USA
American Ornithological Society Meeting, 09-14 April 2018, Tucson, USA
The Wildlife Society’s 24
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Annual Conference, 23-27 September 2017, Albuquerque, USA
WORKSHOP
Bayesian Integrated Population Modeling (IPM) using JAGS (Organized and co-taught with Drs.
Michael Schaub and Marc Kery (Swiss Ornithological Institue), 04-08 Nov 2019, Las Cruces, USA)
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