Micheál Butler

SUBNORDICA Simulation Lead (WP5)

Dr Micheál Butler’s research focuses on the application of geospatial analysis and computer simulation techniques to study past and contemporary societal responses to environmental change. Micheal’s PhD was integrated into the ERC funded Europe’s Lost Frontiers project and explored the use of contemporary woodland simulations to investigate human, and environmental disturbance of woodlands during the early and mid-Holocene.

Prior to his appointment on the SUBNORDICA project, Micheál worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at UCD, working on the SFI Our Tech Challenge funded ‘Craft-My-Street’ project. Here he facilitated the integration of geospatial data for serious game development. Previously, he was research scientist on the IRC COALESCE funded ‘Looking Up’ project in the School of Archaeology at UCD, where he constructed a number of predictive models/simulations to aid in the identification and the management of early Holocene hunter-gatherer sites in the Cairngorms, Scotland.

Micheál is Simulation Lead in WP5 and his role on the SUBNORDICA project will involve the creation of a number of multi-agent simulations to explore the lifeways of past populations which would have inhabited the now submerged Palaeolandscapes of the North, and Baltic Sea.