Academic employment

2021-present Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Teesside University, School of Health and Life Science, Middlesbrough, UK. I contribute to research and teaching leadership, with a focus on my expertise in ecology.

2018-2021 Lecturer in Biology, Teesside University, School of Health and Life Science, Middlesbrough, UK. I contribute to Biological and Environmental Science teaching as well as develop research.

2018-2018 Assistant Editor, Journal of Experimental Botany. Short-term contract. I guided newly submitted papers on their journey though the peer-review process for this top journal in plant science.

2016-2018 Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University College London, Department of Geography, UK. Working on Hydroscape a NERC highlight topic project, PI Prof Nigel Willby, University of Stirling. UCL co-PIs: Prof Neil Rose, Dr Carl Sayer, Dr Helen Bennion and Prof Viv Jones.

2014-2015 60% FTE Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University College London, Department of Geography, UK. Working on NERC-BESS research grant Lake BESS, UCL PI Dr Carl Sayer. I have led the planning and execution of the entire project including budget management, field work, data collating, analysis and write up. I report our progress on our blog “Lake BESS”.

2013-2015 60% FTE Stay-at-home Dad. I had to take multi-tasking, prioritisation, time management and learning new skills to a whole new level in order to write up my thesis and conduct my post-doctoral research while looking after our daughter 3-5 days a week from her birth in January 2013 to January 2016.

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.

2010-2011 Social-science research assistant to Dr Dariusz Wojcik, School of Geography, University of Oxford.

2007-2008 Archaeobotany research assistant to Prof Stephen Mithen and Dr Emma Jenkins, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading.

2006 Research assistant at Agroscope, the National Research Centre in Agronomy, 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.