Julian is an independent wildlife researcher using a multidisciplinary approach that combines ecology and ethology with multispecies ethnography and field philosophy to explore and story more-than-human life-worlds. Founder of the NGO ‘Wild Rodopi’, much of Julian’s research is focused in the Bulgarian Rodopi Mountains, where he is undertaking a long-term study of the local brown bear population, investigating how their ways of being alive are deeply entangled with both the landscape and the other human and more-than-human inhabitants of the region. Ultimately, Julian hopes that his multidisciplinary research methodology will give non-human animals a more powerful geopolitical voice, and foster greater awareness of their rights and agency.
