I am a community ecologist working to understand how whole systems will respond to global change. All species are embedded in a complex network of links with other species that will influence their dynamics. With my work I aim to better understand how this wider context influences the way species will respond to perturbations. To do this I use a mixture of ecological theory, computer modelling, Drosophila experiments and large datasets of observed population changes.
I currently hold a NERC Independent Research Fellowship: 'Improving Forecasts of Ecological Community Dynamics in Unobserved Environments'. I am on the Steering Committee of the European Chapter of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative, an Associate Editor at the Journal of Animal Ecology, and one of three co-organisers of the International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology's online seminar series. Our archive of talks back to 2020 are on YouTube.
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Previous Roles:
2022-2025 - Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellowship. Dept Biology, U. Oxford: 'Climate change and species range shifts: accounting for ecological complexity'.
2020-2022 - Postdoc at Queen Mary's University London with Axel Rossberg as part of a project 'Mechanisms and prediction of large-scale ecological responses to environmental change'
2018-2019 - Postdoc at the Dept. Zoology, U. Oxford with Owen Lewis on a project 'Ecological and evolutionary effects of climate change on rainforest foodwebs'
2014-2018 - DPhil at the Dept. Zoology, U.Oxford with Becky Morris and Mike Bonsall. I studied interaction modifications in a network context.
2013-2014 - MSc Quantitative Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park
2010-2013 - MA Natural Sciences (Plant Sciences), Corpus Christi College, U. Cambridge.
