Monk’s Cowl, Drakensberg mountains, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2014)

Ant genomics and evolution Research Assistant at Queen Mary University of London. With a keen interest in entomology, I volunteer in the Lepidoptera department at the Natural History Museum and on the Water for Wildlife project with London Wildlife Trust.

My research interests include:

• The use of model organisms as indicators of ecosystem health
• Evolution and adaptation in response to habitat and climate change
• Predation, parasitism, trophic cascades and food webs
• Mimicry, camouflage and crypsis
• Taxonomy and museum curation
• Pollination
• Biodiversity, endemism and biogeography
• Invasive species
• Habitat and species conservation
  

  Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo (2017

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