Education

2009-2014 D.Phil (PhD) in Ecology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. “Holocene tree cover and large-herbivore densities in Europe”. Supervision: Prof Kathy Willis and Dr Shonil Bhagwat, NERC studentship.

2008-2009 MSc in Quaternary Science, University College London and Royal Holloway, UK. Prize for Best Student. “Long-term origin of plant loss in Blickling Hall Lake, Norfolk”. Supervision: Dr Carl Sayer, NERC studentship.

2006-2008 BSc Honours (First) in Botany, University of Reading, UK. “Late-quaternary palaeovegetation from the Blackwater Valley, SE England”. Supervision: Dr Michael Keith-Lucas.

1994-1998 Swiss A levels, Geneva Switzerland

About Me

My work focuses on how plants, biodiversity and complex ecosystems respond to environmental change. Answering this question is critical to developing: 1) guidance to accelerate ecological recovery and 2) evidence-based policies to protect the environment and human well-being in the context of global change. New evidences in my research chiefly come directly from studying plants, the natural environment and large-scale, long-term ecological systems.

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I am a Senior Lecturer in Ecology at Teesside University, UK. I was previously a post-doctoral researcher based in UCL (University College London), UK, working on landscape connectivity, biodiversity and ecosystem function in freshwater networks (projects: Lake BESS, Hydroscape). My PhD, completed in the Oxford Long-term Ecology Lab at the University of Oxford, UK, was a contribution to the hotly debated conservation practice of rewilding, using a long-term perspective.