Birmingham Fellow | IIASA-NERC Research Fellow

University of Birmingham

IIASA, Vienna

Biography

I am a computational/spatial ecologist interested in understanding how anthropogenic changes such as climate and land-use change affect global ecosystems, and how this in turn affects human well-being.

I am particularly interested in using novel statistical methods and heterogeneous sources of data to answer applied and theoretical questions. I was previously a mathematician and database developer, and apply skills learned there to answer ecological questions.

I am currently working at the University of Birmingham in the role of Birmingham Fellow. The first three years of this will be spent working on the IIASA-NERC funded project A complex-systems approach to improve understanding of the biodiversity-landscape structure relationship.

Interests

  • Spatial ecology
  • Macroecology
  • Landscape ecology
  • Social-ecological systems
  • Statistics
  • Citizen Science

Education

  • PhD in Geography, 2015

    University of Nottingham

  • MSc in Environmental Management, 2011

    University of Nottingham

  • BSc in Mathematics, 2005

    University of Southampton

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Birmingham Fellow | IIASA-NERC Research Fellow

University of Birmingham

Jun 2020 – Present Birmingham, UK
Leading the IIASA-NERC funded project A complex-systems approach to improve understanding of the biodiversity-landscape structure relationship
 
 
 
 
 

Research Fellow in Spatial Modelling

University of Southampton

Nov 2016 – May 2020 Southampton, UK

Working on the ERC funded project SCALEFORES: Developing a science of scale for ecosystem services

PI: Felix Eigenbrod

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Stony Brook University

Apr 2015 – Oct 2016 Stony Brook, NY, USA

Working on the NASA funded project Combining time-series data, ecology and physiology to predict the consequences of climate change on hummingbird diversity

PI: Catherine Graham

Projects

SCALEFORES

Scaling rules for ecosystem services.

Climate change impacts on hummingbirds

Combining time-series data, ecology and physiology to predict the consequences of climate change on hummingbird diversity

Planning urban landscapes for biodiversity

Strengthening urban landscape planning: a metapopulation modelling approach

Recent Publications

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