Colin Courtney-Mustaphi analyses data sets on how vegetation and wildfires have varied through time in response to societal land use changes, climate and other environmental changes. He completed his role as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the University of York, UK, in November 2026 and has since conducted postdoctoral research at Uppsala University, Sweden, and was an Oberassistant of Geoecology, University of Basel, Switzerland.
He now works as a research consultant on fire and disturbance ecology at Knowledge Core GmbH, Basel, and works across start-up companies and academia (see current projects). Colin Courtney-Mustaphi has authored 20 scientific publications and co-authored >50 publications with colleagues from developed and developing economies (see map of study sites).
Colin’s research contributes to broadscale goals
above: Timelapse video clip filmed and edited by Jason Donaldson showing a savannah grass fire burning experiment on a 10×10 grid to simulate a field experiment version of a raster-based fire computational model. Audio: Pete Seeger The Big Rock Candy Mountain.