Beibei Zhang
Postdoc
Bio
My name is Beibei Zhang and I am Postdoc at Selva Lab, prior to which I completed my PhD at the University of Bristol in September 2024. My PhD was funded by the China Scholarship Council and focused on the use of airborne laser scanning (ALS) as a technology to capture how forests are impacted by and recover from different types of disturbances – particularly logging and wildfires. For my Postdoc I’ll be developing these ideas further, taking advantage of a global collection of ALS datasets to capture how forest canopies recover from disturbance in 3D, and characterise how this varies depending on climate, biogeography and local topography. In doing so my research will help shed light on the processes that shape the structure and function of forest ecosystems at a global scale.
Apart from work, I enjoy travelling, gardening and playing phone games. I am also very fond of cats - particularly British shorthair cats!