About
Dr. Maxwell Farrell is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Glasgow's School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine and an Affiliate Researcher at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. He earned a PhD in Biology from McGill University and conducted postdoctoral work at the University of Georgia, University of Toronto, and University of Glasgow. Since 2024, he has led a research group focusing on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases through a macroecological lens.
- Research Affiliations:
- MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
- Leverhulme Programme for Doctoral Training in Ecological Data Science
- Crucible-funded Data Sonification Working Group
Research Interests include:
- Host-pathogen interaction networks
- Text mining and AI for biodiversity science
- Phylogenetic comparative methods in disease ecology
- Macroecological modeling of multi-species pathogens
- Computational statistics for ecological synthesis
- Biodiversity genomics for disease surveillance
Publication Trends show sustained contributions to Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Nature Microbiology, Lancet Planetary Health, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, with recent articles emphasizing large language models for pest control synthesis, text mining frameworks in ecology, and global threat interconnections between climate change and zoonotic diseases.
- Supervision:
- Avery Holmes (Wellcome Trust IIB PhD)
- Erwin John Sioson (NorthWest Bio DTP)
- Claire Walden (VetFund PhD Scholarship)
Collaborative Networks include the Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution (VIBE) Lab, the SBOHVM Stats Support Group, and the Leverhulme Ecological Data Science DTP.
