Dr Philipp Boersch‑Supan

Quantitative Ecologist

Research Software

The computational tools I develop in my own work are often useful beyond that particular question. I aim to generalize these solutions for the use in other fields, and package them as open research software. You can follow my software development activity on github.

Software packages I am a lead developer for

moultmcmc
This R package provides Bayesian inference for models of avian primary moult.
Project Status: Active - The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed. R-CMD-check DOI:10.48550

deBInfer: Bayesian inference for dynamical models of biological systems in R (with SJ Ryan and LR Johnson)
An R framework for Bayesian parameter inference in ordinary and delay differential equation models.
Project Status: Active - The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed. CRAN_Status_Badge R-CMD-check Peer Reviewed Software DOI:10.1111/2041-210X.12679

rucrdtw
Fast time series subsequence search under dynamic time warping in R. This package provides R bindings for functions from the UCR Suite.
Project Status: Active - The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed. CRAN_Status_Badge R-CMD-check Peer Reviewed Software status

ewp: Exponentially weighted Poisson regression
Modelling interface for underdispersed count data.
Project Status: WIP - Initial development is in progress, but there has not yet been a stable, usable release suitable for the public. R-CMD-check

seabirdeb
This R package provides compiled dynamic energy budget models for seabirds.
Project Status: WIP - Initial development is in progress, but there has not yet been a stable, usable release suitable for the public.

DEButilities
This R package provides functions to facilitate dynamic energy budget model parameter estimation with deBInfer.
Project Status: WIP - Initial development is in progress, but there has not yet been a stable, usable release suitable for the public.

microclimloggers
This package provides functions to parse and reshape microclimate logger data (e.g. iButton Hygrochron, HOBO pendant loggers).
Project Status: WIP - Initial development is in progress, but there has not yet been a stable, usable release suitable for the public. Travis-CI Build Status

Other contributions

Software is fundamental to modern ecological research, yet it is poorly integrated in todays scholarly practice, and receives little acknowledgement in the scholarly record. I strongly believe that research software should be treated on the same basis as other scholarly products such as papers, books, and data sets. Research software deserves peer-review and citations.

I strive to support reproducible research and sustainable research software development as a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, member of the Carpentries community, and as a reviewer and contributor to journals like JORS, JOSS, and ReScience. Many of my contributions are public on github.