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Prof. Nathalie Seddon

Director

Nathalie Seddon is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, Associate Professor of Biodiversity, and Tutorial Fellow of Wadham College. She ... Continue reading...

Prof. Kathy Willis

Associate Director

Kathy Willis is Professor of Biodiversity in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and is also on secondment as ... Continue reading...

Prof. Charles Godfray

I am interested in population and community ecology, and in evolutionary biology. My lab explores questions in these fields using ... Continue reading...

Prof. Owen Lewis

I am a community ecologist and conservation biologist. My interest is in the processes that maintain, structure and threaten biodiversity, ... Continue reading...

Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland

My research is at the interface between ecology and human behaviour. I am motivated both by the challenge of understanding ... Continue reading...

Dr. Rebecca Morris

My research focuses on understanding the structure, dynamics and functioning of ecological communities. I am exploring patterns in ecological networks ... Continue reading...

Dr. Sofia Gripenberg

I am an ecologist broadly interested in the interactions between herbivorous insects, their host plants, and their natural enemies. My ... Continue reading...

Dr. Elizabeth Jeffers

James Martin Fellow

As a James Martin Research Fellow, I investigate how ecosystems respond to environmental change. I use palaeoecological data including fossil ... Continue reading...

Dr. Marc Macias-Fauria

James Martin Fellow

I am a (mostly plant) ecologist with a special focus on cold environments.... Continue reading...

Dr. Sandra Nogué

James Martin Fellow

I graduated with a degree in Biology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, in 2004. I obtained my PhD in ... Continue reading...

Dr. Gillian Petrokofsky

Researcher

Gill's research focusses on the quality of evidence for science-policy dialogue and for constructing relevant research agendas. Other sectors have ... Continue reading...

Dr. Peter Long

James Martin Fellow

Peter is a James Martin research fellow working with Prof Kathy Willis at the Institute of Biodiversity in the Department ... Continue reading...

Dr. Carla Romeu-Dalmau

Post Doctoral Researcher

During the last year of my Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences (2006), I got engaged in research in the Ecology ... Continue reading...

Dr. Alex Pigot

Post-doctoral Researcher

I obtained my BSc in Geography at University College London before moving to the Biology department at Silwood Park (Imperial ... Continue reading...

Dr. Lydia Cole

Post Doctoral Researcher

Lydia is a post doctoral researcher at the Department of Zoology, having completed her DPhil thesis there in September 2012 ... Continue reading...

Dr. Anthony Waldron

Post doctoral researcher

Conserving biodiversity, I believe, involves understanding the interplay between economic, political and natural systems. My current work therefore spans ecology, ... Continue reading...

Dr. Eleanor Slade

Researcher

Researcher (University of Oxford), Senior Research Associate (Lancaster University) I am broadly interested in the ecology and conservation of tropical ... Continue reading...

Dr. ir. Lars Markesteijn

Post doctoral researcher

As an ecologist my academic interests are naturally broad, but I am foremost fascinated by biodiversity. As such, most of ... Continue reading...

Dr. Uri Roll

Postdoctoral Researcher in Conservation Modelling

I obtained a B.Sc. at the department of Life Sciences, University of Tel-Aviv, and continued on to conduct my M.Sc. ... Continue reading...

Dr. Marius Somveille

I obtained my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Paris-Sud. I then crossed the Channel ... Continue reading...

David Benz

Research Assistant

David studies terrestrial environments through remote sensing and GIS. He is particularly interested in using time series of satellite imagery ... Continue reading...

Herizo Andrianandrasana

DPhil Candidate

Academic Profile Herizo completed his Forest Engineer degree in 2000 and his DEA (MSc) on ecology and development in 2009 both ... Continue reading...

Milton Barbosa da Silva

DPhil Candidate

Research Interests I am interested in processes driving the structure and dynamics of ecosystems. My research project focuses on the role ... Continue reading...

Eleanor Bath

DPhil student

I studied a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Hons.)/Bachelor of Arts at the University of New South Wales from 2007-2011. My ... Continue reading...

Ryan Burke

DPhil Candidate

I am most interested in research applicable to conservation management that incorporates field work and natural history documentation in undersampled ... Continue reading...

Moya Burns

DPhil Candidate

Research Interests I am an ecologist with a broad range of interests in entomology, forestry and conservation. My research ... Continue reading...

Harriet Downey

DPhil Candidate

Research Interests I am broadly interested in tropical forest ecology, the roles of insects within these systems and the impact ... Continue reading...

Olalekan Faniran

DPhil Student

Research Interests I am interested in soil arthropods, their patterns of demographic variation, and their interactions with plant litter inputs. Selected Publications Ewuim, ... Continue reading...

Catherine Gresty

DPhil Candidate

Catherine Gresty is a DPhil student in the Biodiversity Institute under ... Continue reading...

Henrik Hannemann

DPhil Candidate

Henrik is a doctoral research student at the Department of Zoology, working at the Biodiversity Institute. His research is supervised ... Continue reading...

Chris Jeffs

DPhil Candidate

Research Interests I work primarily with soil seed banks to assess how fungal pathogens influence the composition and diversity ... Continue reading...

Lebogang Lebotse

DPhil Candidate

Lebo is a D.Phil. student based at the Long-Term Ecology Laboratory, Biodiversity Institute, Oxford. She holds an MSc in Biodiversity ... Continue reading...

Paul Manning

DPhil Candidate

Research Interests I am interested in quantifying beneficial impacts of insects within agricultural ecosystems including: pest suppression, nutrient cycling, and ... Continue reading...

Gerardo Cerón Martínez

DPhil Candidate

Research Interests I am an ecologist mainly interested in plant-animal (so far plant-mammal) interactions, in particular in the influence ... Continue reading...

Ashley Massey

DPhil Candidate

Ashley received her BA(Hons) from Dartmouth College (USA) in Environmental Studies with a minor in Environmental Public Policy. As an ... Continue reading...

Zia Mehrabi

DPhil Candidate

Ana Prohaska

DPhil Candidate

Ana’s research interests lie at the interface of ecology, biogeography and conservation biology. More specifically, she is interested in understanding ... Continue reading...

Beth Raine

DPhil Candidate

Research Interests In my DPhil I hope to explore the role that dung beetles play in secondary seed dispersal ... Continue reading...

Catherine Sheard

DPhil student

I graduated from Yale University in 2012 with a B.S. in Mathematics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. While at Yale, ... Continue reading...

Hitoshi Takano

DPhil Candidate

Research Interests My primary interests lie in the African fauna of the beetle family Scarabaeidae and in particular ... Continue reading...

Hsiao-Hang Tao

DPhil Candidate

Academic profile Hsiao-Hang’s research interest lies at soil ecology and ecosystem services in tropical agroecosystems. Hsiao-Hang is a DPhil student at ... Continue reading...

Chris Terry

DPhil Candidate

Research Interests I am interested in the processes that drive population dynamics in the context of ecological networks. In ... Continue reading...

Jessica Thorn

DPhil Student

Jessica Thorn is a doctoral candidate in the Biodiversity Institute, under the supervision of Prof. Kathy Willis of the Department ... Continue reading...

Eric Topham

DPhil Student

Research Interests I am currently a final year DPhil student in Zoology at the University of Oxford. My research concerns ... Continue reading...

Carolina Tovar

DPhil Student

Carolina is a D.Phil. student in the Long Term Ecology Laboratory, based in the Department of Zoology. Carolina is currently ... Continue reading...

Kristiina Visakorpi

DPhil Candidate

Research Interests I am interested in food webs and interactions between species, how these relationships shape ecological communities and ... Continue reading...

Alex Augusto de Abreu Bovo

Visiting MSc student

In 2013 I completed my undergraduate in Biology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. In the same year, I ... Continue reading...

Dr. Paul Jepson

Associate Researcher

Paul Jepson is course director of the MSc in ... Continue reading...

Dr. Richard Bailey

Associate Researcher

Richard Bailey is a lecturer in Geochronology, Director of the School of Geography and the Environment Luminescence Dating Laboratory and ... Continue reading...

Dr. Pam Berry

Associate Researcher

Pam Berry has been involved in teaching Geography undergraduates in Oxford since 1978 and in particular papers on physical geography, ... Continue reading...

Dr. Shonil Bhagwat

Associate Researcher

Shonil Bhagwat has D.Phil. in Tropical Forest Diversity and Conservation (1998-2002) andMSc in Forestry and its Relation ... Continue reading...

Dr. Alexandros Gasparatos

James Martin Fellow

Alex is a James Martin research fellow working with Prof. Kathy Willis at the Biodiversity Institute in the Department of ... Continue reading...

Dr. Michael Bonsall

Associate Researcher

I am interested in population biology (population dynamics, community ecology, evolutionary ecology). Research in the group focuses on a wide ... Continue reading...

Dr. David Boshier

Associate Researcher

My research focuses on the genetics of tree populations, human impacts (e.g. fragmentation, logging) on such populations and applications to ... Continue reading...

Dr. Elinor Breman

Associate Researcher

Elinor gained her D.Phil. from the School of Geography and Environment, Oxford University in 2010. Her thesis examined the drivers of vegetation ... Continue reading...

Dr. Nick Brown

Associate Researcher

I am investigating how forests respond to both natural and human inflicted disturbance and the implications of this for sustainable ... Continue reading...

Dr. Sallie Burrough

Associate Researcher

Sallie is a Junior Research Fellow at Hertford College and a Leverhulme funded postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. David Thomas ... Continue reading...

Dr. Neil Caithness

Associate Researcher

Neil has a research background in zoology, and for the past 10 years has been involved in various e-Science activities ... Continue reading...

Dr. Susan M. Canney

Research Associate, Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group

Dr. Susan Canney has worked on a variety of nature conservation projects in Africa, Asia and Europe, including living for ... Continue reading...

Dr. Dawn Chatty

Associate Researcher

Professor Dawn Chatty is a social anthropologist whose ethnographic interests lie in the Middle East, particularly with nomadic pastoral tribes ... Continue reading...

Dr. Neil Davies

Associate Researcher

As director of the UCB Gump Station, I represent the University of California in French Polynesia, overseeing the University's operations and ... Continue reading...

Professor Dawn Field

Associate Researcher

Head of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics Group, Biodiversity Programme, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.

Dr. Andrew Gosler

Associate Researcher

I read Environmental Biology at Aberystwyth (BSc 1979), and then Plant Taxonomy at Reading (MSc 1981) before studying eco-morphology of ... Continue reading...

Dr. Richard Grenyer

Associate Researcher

Richard Grenyer is a biologist and conservationist who is interested in the fundamental position that space and geographical processes occupy ... Continue reading...

Professor Tim Guilford

Associate Researcher

Although I still maintain an interest in the evolution of animal signals, especially warning signals, which was the subject of ... Continue reading...

Dr Gabriel Hemery

Associate

Gabriel co-founded the Sylva Foundation with Sir Martin Wood. He has considerable practical hands-on experience in land management, extensive knowledge ... Continue reading...

Dr. Jeyaraney Kathirithamby

Associate Researcher

Strepsiptera are bizarre parasites that display unique adaptations in response to long and diverse coevolution with their hosts and parasitize ... Continue reading...

Dr. Alexander Kirschel

Associate Researcher

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Dr. Roosa Leimu

Associate Researcher

My current research focuses mainly on the ecological and evolutionary challenges of habitat fragmentation and global change for plant populations. ... Continue reading...

Professor David Macdonald

Associate Researcher

I am interested in the scientific underpinning of practical and policy solutions to problems in wildlife conservation. Although my background ... Continue reading...

Professor Lord May of Oxford, OM AC FRS

Associate Researcher

Robert, Lord May of Oxford, OM AC Kt FRS, holds a Professorship at Oxford University and is a Fellow of ... Continue reading...

Dr. Constance L. McDermott

Associate Researcher

Constance McDermott is a James Martin Senior Fellow in Forest Governance at ECI and the newOxford Centre for ... Continue reading...

Dr. Sandra Bos Mikich

Academic Visitor

My research focuses on the ecology of birds and mammals in tropical forests, mainly in the highly threatened Brazilian Atlantic ... Continue reading...

Professor Norman Myers

Associate Researcher

Norman Myers BA (Oxford 1958) PhD (Berkeley 1973) (born 24 August 1934), is a British environmentalist specialising in biodiversity.

Dr. Kate Parr

Associate Researcher

I am a community ecologist with a particular interest in biodiversity conservation. I am interested in how local communities are ... Continue reading...

Dr. Kenneth Richards

Associate Researcher

No information available at this time

Dr. Laura Rival

Associate Researcher

No information available at this time

Professor Stephen Roberts

Associate Researcher

Stephen Roberts' main area of research lies in machine learning approaches to data analysis. He has particular interests in the development ... Continue reading...

Professor Alex Rogers

Associate Researcher

I am fascinated by the diversity, ecology, conservation and evolution of marine species. I have special interests in the deep ... Continue reading...

Professor Claudio Sillero

Associate Researcher

I was born in Argentina where I graduated as a zoologist (Universidad Nacional de La Plata 1984), and obtained my ... Continue reading...

Dr. Martin Speight

Associate Researcher

I am interested in tropical ecology & entomology and carry out research on various aspects of coral reef ecology, tropical ... Continue reading...

Professor Jeremy Thomas

Associate Researcher

I am interested in understanding the factors that determine change in species’ abundance, distributions and specializations. Most of my research ... Continue reading...

Dr. Thomas Thornton

Associate Researcher

As director for the MSc in Environmental Change and Management, I ... Continue reading...

Dr. Joseph Tobias

Associate Researcher

Joe Tobias is a Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity at Imperial College London. After completing a PhD at Cambridge (1996), he ... Continue reading...

Professor Heather Viles

Associate Researcher

Heather Viles is a geographer with major interests in geomorphology and heritage science. Much of her research focuses on the ... Continue reading...

Professor Robert J. Whittaker

Associate Researcher

Rob Whittaker has a BSc in Botany and Geography from the University of Hull (1980), anMSc in ... Continue reading...

Alistair Yeomans

Associate

Alistair coordinates the myForest service and is a founding member of staff of the Sylva Foundation, where he is Director ... Continue reading...

Dr. Timos Papadopoulos

James Martin Fellow

Timos is working on the BIOSOUND project: Biodiversity monitoring using smartphones: designing an acoustic system for intelligent birdsong analysis.. His research ... Continue reading...

Dr. Alistair Seddon

Post Doctoral Researcher

I submitted my D.Phil thesis in October 2010 (thesis title: "Palaeoecology, Biogeography and Evolution of Galapagos Diatoms”). I have a ... Continue reading...

Dr. Jake L Snaddon

James Martin Fellow

Jake is a James Martin Research Fellow working with Prof Kathy Willis at the Biodiversity Institute, Oxford in the Department ... Continue reading...

Ambroise Baker

DPhil Student

My science is relevant to Biodiversity Promotion and Nature Conservation, developing evidences from the fields of Ecology, Vegetation Science and ... Continue reading...

Tom Bregman

DPhil student

In 2011 I graduated from Durham University with a BSc in Natural Sciences. Throughout my undergraduate I was involved in ... Continue reading...

Chris Cooney

DPhil student

In 2010 I completed a B.Sc. Hons degree in Biology at the University of York, during which I developed a ... Continue reading...

Darren Jeffers

DPhil Student

No information available at this time

Chris Trisos

DPhil student

I completed my B.Sc. in ecology and economics and then an Honours degree in botany at the University of Cape ... Continue reading...

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