Biography
Pirta Palola is a postdoctoral research fellow in INET Oxford, working on the 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. In her research, Pirta employs cutting-edge techniques in Bayesian inference, machine learning, remote sensing, and spatial data analysis. Coming from a multidisciplinary background in biology and economics, Pirta has a deep interest in the multidisciplinary study of complex adaptive systems. She is excited to work at the science-policy interface in MacroCB7 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
