Biography
Pirta Palola is a research assistant in INET Oxford's Macroeconomics of the Seventh Carbon Budget (MacroCB7) project at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. The MacroCB7 project applies a state-of-the-art macroeconomic agent-based model to assess the macroeconomic and distributional impact of the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget. As research assistant, Pirta contributes to the research, project administration, and engagement with policy partners.
Pirta is a PhD candidate at the School of Geography and the Environment with strong quantitative skills in computational modelling, Bayesian inference, and spatial data analysis. Coming from a multidisciplinary background in biology and economics, she has a deep interest in the multidisciplinary study of complex adaptive systems. She is excited to work at the science-policy interface and contribute towards novel decision-making tools to support the sustainability transition.
You can find Pirta on GitHub at https://github.com/pirtapalola.
Recent publications
- Palola, P., Theenathayalan, V., Schröder, C., Martinez-Vicente, V., Collin, A., Wright, R., Ward, M., Thomson, E., Lopez-Garcia, P., Hochberg, E., Malhi, Y., & Wedding, L. (2025) Simulation-based inference advances water quality mapping in shallow coral reef environments. Royal Society Open Science, 12, 12241471. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241471
- Palola, P., Pittman, S. J., Collin, A., Benkwitt, C. E., Thomson, E., Malhi, Y., Graham, N. A. J., & Wedding, L. (2025) Nutrientscape ecology: a whole-system framework to support the understanding and management of coastal nutrient connectivity. Landscape Ecology, 40, 48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-025-02060-w
