PEOPLE
Current and past members of the group
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Dr Ellie Dyer
Ellie is a macroecologist investigating the determinants of global patterns in alien bird assemblages.
Dr Laura Cardador
Laura is a Marie Curie Research Fellow studying how human-associations and within-taxon niche structure in native-ranges affect the extent to which distribution models capture the realized ecological niche of an organism.
PHD STUDENTS
Tom's research focuses on the identification and management of impacts associated with invasive alien species
Gemma’s PhD aims to understand whether management actions to recover a critically endangered Australian passerine species, the regent honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia), are working, by employing decision analytic tools such as Structured Decision Making.
VISITORS, PAST GROUP MEMBERS AND COLLABORATORS
Dr Alex Pigot
Alex has now left the group to take up his Royal Society URF, but is staying in CBER and plans to keep working with us.
Dr Dave Redding
Dave has now left the group to take up a Fellowship, but will be staying in CBERÂ and hopefully still working with us.
Dr Su Shan
Sushan completed her PhD in the group, studying "The bird trade in Taiwan: an analysis of an Eastern pathway to biological invasion"
Dr Pavel Pipek
Pavel is visiting the group from the Institute of Botany at the ASCR in Prague, where his main research interest is in the history of avian invasions in New Zealand.
Dr Phill Cassey
Phill has been collaborating with the group for many years, and co-supervised the work by Ellie, Sushan and Alex.
Dr Gavin Thomas
Gavin was a postdoc in the group many years ago, and is now a collaborator on Alex Pigot's project.