Latest news: Job alert! Come join the lab as a PhD student through the China Scholarship Council to help decode and map Earth's species interactions with AI
Welcome! I’m an ecologist, global change biologist and group leader based in London
This site outlines my research in global community ecology, which asks:
How do climate, dispersal and other processes acting across the planet create and erase patterns of species, functional, phylogenetic and interaction diversity?
To answer this question I integrate and collect data on plants and animals, in isolation or via their interactions, and develop modeling and theoretical tools.
My goal is to better link global change, in particular climate change, with community ecology and biogeography. Making these links can improve predictions of, map threats to, and aid the recovery of biodiversity dynamics.
My research, teaching and outreach are currently focused on:
Building a global ecology of species interactions, with a focus on the biogeography of seed dispersal, a key trophic interaction
Protecting ecosystems with ecological theory and big data, in particular across the terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms
Untangling biodiversity dynamics across scales, especially the effects of climate, dispersal and biogeographic history on diversity patterns