Steering committee members

We are interested in how environmental conditions alter key demographic traits that affect the success of animal populations (reproduction, migration, survival). We are particularly interested in the impact of infection and disease.  We study the impact of environmental variation on immune traits, life history traits and social behaviour then explore how these effects scale up to affect the movement, transmission and impact of infection for wild and domesticated animal populations.

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I investigate the impact of climate change to marine ecosystem structure and function, from shallow environments to the deep sea. Of particular interest is how ecosystems and communities can adapt to future projected impacts of climate change.

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I am co-lead for the Centre's Earth Theme. My research focuses on developing numerical models to understand and quantify hydrological extremes, their future evolution and associated impacts on society and the environment. This research is fundamentally interdisciplinary, exploring systemic risk and interconnected impacts associated with hydro-hazards (floods and droughts) and their impacts within cities. My work takes both a national and international dimension, and I have been involved in recent projects across Africa, Asia and South America.

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I am co-lead for the Centre's Earth Theme. I am also a geomorphologist that uses quantitative methods to understand why the surface of our planet looks the way it does, what that reveals about the movement of sediment, water and nutrients, and how topography can be used to infer climate and tectonics. My work investigates mountains, hillslopes and coastal environments. I combines topographic analysis, numerical modelling, fieldwork, isotopic analysis to quantify dates and rates, and theory.

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I am co-lead for the Centre's Life Theme. I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in understanding evolutionary processes that lead to biological diversity within and among populations and species. Focusing on nonhuman primates, my group studies population dynamics, speciation, adaptation and character trait evolution by combining genetic and genomic tools with ecological, morphological and climatic data. Many primate taxa are threatened or endangered - our research aims to contribute to their conservation by providing valuable arguments and data for conservation efforts.

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I am co-lead for the Centre's Life Theme. I am an evolutionary biologist interested in speciation and adaptation in flowering plants. I completed my honours degree in molecular plant sciences from the University of Edinburgh in 2008. My research includes the evolution of postglacial diversity in Euphrasia, the maintenance of chromosomal inversions in Mimulus, and the origins of diversity in tropical Begonia. 

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I am co-lead for the Centre's Ecosystems theme. My research aims to help the global effort to protect the World's largest terrestrial carbon store: peatlands. We use a combination of high-resolution spectroscopic techniques, such as NMR and FT-ICR-MS, and next-generation sequencing to uncover the key roles microbes and molecules play in the carbon cycling processes in peatlands.

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I am co-lead for the Centre's Society theme. I am a social scientist trained at the Universities of Coimbra (Portugal) and York (UK). My research interests are located in the fields of environmental sociology and science and technology studies, with a focus on environmental monitoring, public engagement and the use of ICTs in environmental assessments, and citizen science. I am developing research on new practices and notions of public participation, the digital and citizenship.

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I am co-lead for the Centre's Society theme. My group is interested in the interactions within national and global food systems and land use, combining social, economic and environmental considerations. The work explores the impacts of the global food system on environmental change, including climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as adaptation of land use to environmental change and food system consequences from land-based climate change mitigation actions.

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I am an evolutionary ecologist with a broad range of interests in how evolution works in natural populations. My research focuses on the evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics of wild animal populations. We aim to understand how both evolutionary processes and environmental conditions result in change over time. We work on a range of species, mainly using long-term studies of wild vertebrate populations with individual-level field data. Two key aims are to understand the genetic variance of fitness in wild populations and the impact of current climate change on wild populations.

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I use a mixture of theoretical, statistical and experimental approaches to study the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of both our bacterial pathogens and commensals. One of the biggest changes that bacteria face is our use of antimicrobials, and they are rapidly evolving resistance to these drugs. We aim to study how bacteria are evolving in response to this change in order to better guide the design of interventions to manage the evolution of antimicrobial resistance and limit its public health impact.

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I am co-lead for the Centre's Early Career Researchers' Network. I am a quantitative ecologist with an interest in understanding how biological systems are influenced by their environment. My work looks at forecasting how individuals and populations respond to weather and climatic changes. My approach focuses on methodological innovation and refinement, alongside ecological insight, with a particular interest in improving how we quantify and communicate uncertainty.

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I am co-lead for the Centre's Early Career Researchers' Network. I’m interested in the dynamics of environmental and ecological change, and in how temporal scale influences our understanding of those changes. My work investigates how biodiversity change progresses, at timescales ranging from decades to millions of years, and in a wide range of organisms - from marine invertebrates to terrestrial plants. I'm interested om how long-term perspectives can help to inform the ways we value and protect biodiversity for the future, particularly under long-term impacts.

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