Supervisor: Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez
Broadly, I am a population ecologist who dabbles in macroecology. More specifically, my interest in ecology stems from a fascination for the diversity and beauty of coral reef environments, yet I am keen to ensure my research is not restricted to a particular system or taxa, and instead focuses on unravelling the paradigms underpinning the stability and functional viability of natural ecosystems. Thus, centred upon marine ecosystems, my research has broadly focused on exploring the drivers of nuance in the responses of natural communities to global change. During my PhD, at the University of Leeds, I explored how characteristics of demographic resilience and population performance are shaped by the local environmental exposures of natural populations and evaluated biogeographic patterns in coral demography. Next, I carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Southern Denmark, leading the development of a predictive framework designed to forecast spatio-temporal patterns in the formation of jellyfish blooms. More recently, at the University of St Andrews, I worked to adapt novel measures of geometric structural complexity (i.e. structural shape), used in assessments of reef structure, to develop a unified measure for quantifying cross-system patterns in global habitat complexity.
At the University of Oxford, I am now working to expand the tools available for evaluating demographic resilience, ensuring that contemporary approaches accommodate the complex dynamics of natural populations and the constantly shifting state of global environments.
