Dr Tilo Burghardt is a computer science academic who researches animal biometrics and computer vision methods for the life sciences. His work focuses on using artificial intelligence and robotics to support biodiversity, sustainability, and animal welfare. His interdisciplinary research links computing with ecology, conservation, taxonomics, healthcare, animal husbandry, and sustainable farming. He was one of the first researchers to monitor animals in their natural habitat via automated real-time computer vision methods in the early 2000s. Over the past two decades he made contributions to establishing animal biometrics as an emerging cross-discipline linked to imageomics and routed in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Tilo's enthusiasm for computer science and computer vision is reflected in his dedication to teaching the subject. He has received the University of Bristol 'Award for Education' for his educational contributions to the Engineering Faculty.