As someone who did an undergraduate degree in biology, I think that as a computer scientist you probably already have many of the skills that you’d need to contribute to biology research directly. Welfare bio is a very new field so getting on top of the literature would likely not be too tricky, and most biologists would not have an in depth understanding of that particular sub-field anyway. There may be systematic reviews or modelling studies that you could contribute to, or you could look for existing datasets that could be reanalysed through a welfare bio ‘lens’.
In general I think it’s much easier to go from comp-sci/ maths/something quantitative to bio than the other way around, as bio is not particularly ‘linear’ (i.e. there isn’t necessarily a base of knowledge that everyone has and builds on over time).
As someone who did an undergraduate degree in biology, I think that as a computer scientist you probably already have many of the skills that you’d need to contribute to biology research directly. Welfare bio is a very new field so getting on top of the literature would likely not be too tricky, and most biologists would not have an in depth understanding of that particular sub-field anyway. There may be systematic reviews or modelling studies that you could contribute to, or you could look for existing datasets that could be reanalysed through a welfare bio ‘lens’.
In general I think it’s much easier to go from comp-sci/ maths/something quantitative to bio than the other way around, as bio is not particularly ‘linear’ (i.e. there isn’t necessarily a base of knowledge that everyone has and builds on over time).