PhD Computational Ecology (Minor corrections) – UCL
London NERC DTP (2017-2021)
– Thesis: Causes and consequences of
global pollinator biodiversity change in the Anthropocene
MSc Biodiversity and Conservation (Distinction, 1st)
– The University of Leeds (2014-2015)
– Thesis: A Satellite
Telemetry Investigation of Caspian Seal (Pusa caspica) Activity Budgets
(77%)
BSc Zoology, Upper second-class honours (2:1) – The
University of Leeds (2011-2014)
– Thesis: Of Molecules and
Morphology: An Extended Review of the Eutherian Radiation (69%)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow – Department of Zoology,
University of Cambridge (October 2024-October 2027)
Title: Novel AI and economic mechanisms to solve the biodiversity crisis
– Primary Investigator on a prestigious 3 year Fellowship,
focussing on the potential future role of ensemble biodiversity models,
autonomous spatial finance, and global biodiversity monitoring systems,
in solving at least some dimensions of the long-term systemic risks
emergent from biodiversity change.
– Zoology seminar series
organiser (2025-2026); Zoology floor 2 fire warden (2025-present);
postdoc committee member (2025-2026); Agroecology Research Group senior
post-doc providing pastoral support and day-to-day leadership for ~10
students and postdocs.
Bye-Fellow – St Edmund’s College, University of
Cambridge (March 2025-March 2026)
– Elected to a 1 year
Bye-Fellowship with St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.
Visiting researcher – University of Cambridge
(March-September 2024)
– Funded by the Natural History Museum to
join the Agroecology group of Prof Lynn Dicks.
Postdoctoral researcher – the Natural History Museum,
London (March 2022-October 2024)
– Lead post-doc on
meta-analyses and in combining multiple data types (expert elicitation,
space-for-time, and meta-analyses) to develop the core threat-response
model for the NERC funded project GLiTRS (https://glitrs.ceh.ac.uk/)
Associate member – Department of Sociology, University of
Oxford (March 2022-March 2023)
– Elected to a 1 year
associate membership with the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.
Honorary non-stipendiary research fellow – Nuffield College,
University of Oxford (November 2021-March 2022)
– Elected
to a 1 year Fellowship, deemed equivalent to a Postdoctoral Prize
Fellowship at Nuffield.
Postdoctoral data scientist & researcher – Leverhulme
Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford (September
2021-March 2022)
– Lead on three research projects: 1) a systematic
text-analysis review of the causes of human sleep disturbance; 2)
changes in Twitter activity following the COVID-19 pandemic; and 3) the
effects of extreme night-time temperature on sleep disturbance, using
ERA-5 hourly temperature data and Twitter scraping.
Programme Assistant – UNEP-WCMC (September 2016-June
2017)
– Collaborated with Dr Aly Pavitt to develop two new
automated systems in R for the processing of CITES data, replacing a
previous system built in VBA, and bringing processing time down from 3-4
hours to 5-10 seconds. As of 2026, this platform is still in use a
decade later.
– Produced a data handling guide for the Ecuadorian
environmental ministry and an Amazonian regional trade overview, and
wrote ~12 trade reviews for the European Commission.
Publishing Assistant – Nature Publishing Group
(November 2015-September 2016)
– Applied my broad academic
knowledge to rapidly assign submitted manuscripts to the editors at
Scientific Reports, and then responsible for manuscripts until decisions
are made.