Christoph Nolte

Christoph is an affiliate professor at the Faculty of Computing & Data Science and an associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University.

Christoph is a conservation scientist interested in understanding and comparing the effectiveness of efforts to protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems. Many of his research projects combine remote sensing and “big” spatio-temporal social data on people, policies, and properties with quasi-experimental causal inference and predictive machine learning.

Christoph teaches environmental statistics, economics, data science for conservation decisions, and environmental data synthesis and analysis. He enjoys collaborating with government agencies, donors, land trusts, indigenous governments, and early-career researchers. Before coming to Boston to speak American and Python, he studied in four languages, and pursued conservation research in 24 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.