Varun Varma

Varun's research interests span fundamental ecology, impacts of global change on natural and human dominated systems, as well as developing decision support tools for sustainability planning.

He joined Rothamsted in 2020 as part of the AgLand project. His role was to model multiple ecosystem services within landscapes of Great Britain, and link landscape multi-functionality to socio-ecological land- and farm-system classes (or socio-ecological archetypes). His current work as part of the Resilient Farming Futures project and Farming Footprints and Adaptation science team involves developing computational methods to detect changes in ecosystem resilience and early warning signals of tipping points.

Varun completed his PhD on the effects of Nitrogen and Phosphorus deposition in savannas from the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore. As a research fellow at the University of Exeter he quantified past and expected impacts of climate change on global banana production, and developed remote sensing methods to assess impacts of extreme weather events on banana production systems and their subsequent recovery.