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My name is Colm Duffy and I am an environmental systems modeller. I am motivated by environmental and social justice.
I went to university as a mature student studying International Development and that gave me the opportunity to work in many different contexts such as Malawi and Kenya with the World AgroForestry Centre (ICRAF) and Zambia with Camara Education. These experiences, and many more, were wonderful opportunities to broaden my view of the world and have been key to shaping the person and researcher I am today.
I hold BSc in International development and food policy and an MSc in Climate change, agriculture and food security. In 2019, I finished my PhD in Climate Smart Agriculture. It was toward the end of my PhD that I really found my focus. I began looking at land-use and land-use change in and Irish context. I have since gone on develop several land use models, including the GOBLIN model land-use model.
Modelling systems has led me to incrementally build an array of skills that allow for increasingly complex model development. As time has gone on, I have gained qualifications and experience in software engineering, consequential and attributional lifecycle analysis, spatial mapping and econometrics.
Why do I enjoy modelling systems? Because, imagining a more sustainable world, and building it's virtual components and using them to assist decision-makers in the real world is incredibly rewarding.
This website is intended to act as a sign post to projects, repositories, research and blog articles.