Will Stephen

Will is a Researcher in the Technical Design and Development team and uses his programming and data analysis skills to help clients develop bespoke analyses for biodiversity footprinting and design data-driven strategies for managing nature impacts. 

Prior to The Biodiversity Consultancy, Will worked at the Natural History Museum in London, researching the use of specimen DNA for conservation and ecological studies. In 2020, Will completed his MSc in Taxonomy, Biodiversity and Evolution at Imperial College London, where he gained knowledge and experience of using the latest methods and technologies to analyse numeric, genomic, physiological and spatial data to study and measure biodiversity.

He previously gained field-based conservation research experience monitoring sand lizard populations in the UK and aiding forest ecology and marine benthic and fisheries conservation projects in Indonesia.