Hello! I’m an ecologist and Junior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford. My research lies at the intersection of quantitative and community ecology, where I use mathematical and statistical approaches to understand the processes shaping ecological communities, with a particular focus on tropical forests.
I’m especially interested in how interactions between plants and their natural enemies influence tree reproduction, recruitment and survival, and contribute to species coexistence. A central focus of my current research is conspecific density dependence, where tree survival, growth or reproduction is influenced by the local density of individuals of the same species. I’m interested in how density-dependent processes operating at different life stages might interact or accumulate over time, and what this means for tree population dynamics and tropical forest diversity.
My research has also explored the dynamics and recovery of tropical forests following selective logging. During my postdoctoral work, I investigated forest regeneration and restoration, drawing on long-term ecological experiments and monitoring data from Malaysian Borneo.
My work combines field-based ecological data and long-term monitoring with quantitative modelling, particularly Bayesian statistical approaches. My research has also explored causal inference and predictive modelling in applied ecology, including their potential to inform conservation and management decisions. I’m committed to open and reproducible science, and to making ecological research and its underlying data and code more accessible.
Before joining St Anne’s, I held postdoctoral research positions at the Universities of Oxford and Reading. I completed my PhD at the University of Reading, an MRes at University College London, and a BSc at the University of Exeter.
