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<h3 style="margin:0!important;padding:0!important;text-decoration:none;">Head of the Working Group Data and Modelling Infrastructure for Living Labs</h3>

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<h1>Hi there!</h1>

I'm Ben, a scientific researcher currently working as Head of the Working Group Data and Modelling Infrastructure for Living Labs at the [Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)](https://www.zalf.de/en/Pages/ZALF.aspx) within the [Innovation Centre for Agricultural System Transformation](https://www.zalf.de/en/struktur/iat/Pages/default.aspx). 

I'm a BIG fan of R stats for everything research related particularly for promoting open science and reproducibility. I started this site/blog to share some of my work that doesn't necessarily make it into publications in the hope that others will find it useful. Thanks for stopping by!
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  <div class="degree">Lecturer in [Participatory Environmental Modelling](https://irl.ethz.ch/education/courses/msc/participatory_modelling.html), 2021 - Present</div>
  <div class="school"> ETH Zürich</div>
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