Transforming Science and Data into Solutions
I’m Dr. Joshua Taylor — a scientist, data analyst, and filmmaker with over 15 years of experience. I help startups, researchers, and organisations solve technical problems, tell their story, and deliver results.
Need support with your project?
We can work together – feel free to book a call to discuss your project requirements.
Services at a glance:
Data Analysis & Scientific Consulting – From statistics to applied AI to detecting rare animals with sound to analysing performance trends for elite sports, conservation or business.
I can implement and analyse complex models and find out how accurate it is and which inputs are valuable in terms of investment.
Scientific Data Capture – Need to measure something tricky? I’ve built systems that monitor environmental conditions in rainforests through sound, motion platforms and pose-capture systems used by Olympic sailing teams.
Tutoring & Mentoring – I weekly slots available to mentor in data science, mathematics, engineering. embedded devices physics and research methods.
Film & Storytelling – Communicate your technical and scientific work. I prepare scientific documentaries, short videos, content creation, technology explainers to communicate your projects.
Expertise
project leadership; environmental monitoring; citizen science. social enterprise; physics modelling; scientific coding; data science; computer vision; electronics; testing and evaluation; model building; human motion analysis; pose capture; physical computing; computer science; remote monitoring; writing; presenting; teaching; technical illustration; video production; acoustics.
Latest Projects
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Social Environment CIC
Conservation Technology & Applied AI Often in conservation, technologies are made available as build instructions, research papers or as software provided as code needing many steps before it can be used. I co-founded Social Environment with Rory Matheson and Clémentine Fuchs to make cutting-edge technologies available to conservation projects around the world. Social Environment provides…
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CNC Motion Platform for Precision Audio Measurements
Audioscenic (UK) approached me to design and build a custom 4-axis CNC motion platform for evaluating their spacial audio technologies. The project drew on my 10+ years of expertise in motion platform design, signal processing and robotics for research applications. The resulting system enabled automated, repeatable 4D positioning of measurement microphones, mounted in a dummy head, across…
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Turtle Tracking
I was approached to design GPS sensors to monitor terrapin turtles. My clients project was to assist marine biologists in tracking very small Terapin Turtles when they come to nest. Due to the size of terrapin turtles (on average only 13 cm long) the trackers needed to be very small indeed. As the battery was the…
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Safely Levitating Couscous at the University of Bristol
This was an ambitious multi-disciplinary project. Professor Mike Fraser’s acoustic printing group first employed me as a post-doctoral research associate to look into commercialisation routes for an acoustic printing device. The group had been developing tools based on ultrasound for bioprinting and particle sorting applications. To support its development, I developed electronics to precisely control…
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Building Instruments
How could you improve how a city sounds?
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About me
I studied my bachelors degrees in Marine Technology at Newcastle University. It sounds specific but taught me a strong grounding in most engineering disciplines. I went on to work with the British Olympic Sailing Team for 6 years and gained a PhD from the University of Southampton. I’ve written an article about it here. I developed the first pose-capture system designed for analysing Olympic sailors performance and built motion platforms so they could practise in the lab. I honed my skills in developing and evaluating complex control and sensor systems which needed to work at high speed while being submerged in saltwater.
All the work developing autonomous sensor systems to function in salt-water turned out to be very interesting to conservation groups. They needed to record data in the rainforest which had an unexpected degree of overlap with my research with the British Sailing Team.
I joined Bristol University’s Bristol Interaction Group where I worked to develop acoustic printing technologies based on levitation and pattern forming. I designed and ran tests around the safety of ultrasound at very high-pressure levels.
I found that being able to make reliable and water-tight sensors was useful to large-scale conservation projects. This led me to design turtle trackers and later evaluate AI’s ability to recognise and count animal calls on a 100,000 hectare site in Malaysian Borneo.
I enjoy working on multidisciplinary projects, especially when they combine environmental sustainability, culture and art. I’m in my element presenting to audiences of corporate management, engineers, scientists and the general public.
My research interests are in performance measurement techniques for sport and environment, conservation technology and designing for non-expert user groups.
I have taught mathematics, control systems, energy harvesting, structures and naval architecture at leading British universities.
If you have an idea which needs developing but not sure where to start, please get in touch to collaborate.
Dr Joshua C Taylor FRSA BEng