Experience

Lead a long-term programme monitoring snow leopards and their prey across the central Karakoram using GPS telemetry and camera-trap gridsBuilt a community ranger network of 30+ local field assistants running standardized wildlife surveys across three valleysSecured ~$1.2M in conservation grants and published 15+ peer-reviewed papers on mountain carnivore ecologyAdvise provincial wildlife departments and IUCN working groups on snow leopard and markhor conservation

Conducted doctoral research on the spatial ecology of snow leopards, developing collar-deployment protocols for extreme terrainFirst-authored 8 papers on carnivore movement, occupancy modelling, and conservation geneticsBuilt an open occupancy-analysis pipeline now used by field teams across High AsiaSupervised MSc students and ran field-methods training in Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan