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Academic staff

Silwood Park Campus is home to the Department of Life Sciences Evolutionary Biology Theme, the Ecosystems & the Environment Theme and the Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet

Academic and research staff
Name	Title	Research topics
Dr Arkhat Abzhanov	Reader in Evolution and Developmental Genetics	Developmental mechanisms for evolution of head and face in vertebrates
Dr Cristina Banks-Leite	Senior Lecturer	Community and landscape ecology
Professor Tom Bell	Professor of Microbial Ecology	Ecology and evolution of microbial communities
Professor Martin Bidartondo	Professor in Molecular Ecology	Ecology and evolution of mycorrhizas
Dr Martin Brazeau	Senior Lecturer	Evolution of modern vertebrate anatomy
Professor Austin Burt	Professor of Evolutionary Genetics	Population genetic engineering and malaria vectors
Dr Lauren Cator	Senior Lecturer	Behavioural ecology of disease vectors
Dr Rob Ewers	Reader in Ecology	Deforestation and field experiments
Dr Richard Gill	Senior Lecturer	Insect ecology and evolution
Dr Peter Graystock	Lecturer in Human and Animal Health	Ecosystems and the Environment
Dr Bhavin Khatri	Research Fellow in Statistical Genomics
Dr Samraat Pawar	Reader in Theoretical Ecology	Systems biology and theoretical ecology
Dr Will Pearse	Senior Lecturer in Applied Ecology	Evolutionary ecology
Professor Colin Prentice	AXA Chair in Biosphere and Climate Impacts	Climate dynamics and biosphere and atmosphere interactions
Dr Emma Ransome	Lecturer	Effects of anthropogenic change on aquatic ecosystems
Dr. James Rosindell	Reader	Theoretical ecology and evolution
Professor Vincent Savolainen	Professor of Organismic Biology	Biodiversity genomics
Dr Julia Schroeder	Senior Lecturer	Quantitative genetics and behavioural ecology of social behaviour in birds
Dr Joseph Tobias	Reader in Biodiversity and Ecosystems	Biodiversity and ecosystem science
Dr Bonnie Waring	Senior Lecturer	Ecosystem ecology and soil biochemistry
Professor Guy Woodward	Professor of Ecology, Deputy HoD, Silwood Park	Food webs and ecological networks, and aquatic ecosystems
Professor Alfried Vogler	Professor of Molecular Systematics	Taxonomy, diversity and evolution of insects

Affiliated Faculty
Name	Title	Research topics
Professor Andy Purvis	Research Investigator (Associate with Natural History Museum London)	Biodiversity and extinction
Professor Jason Tylianakis	Professor in Ecology and Biodiversity (Associate with University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Professor Denis Wright	Emeritus Professor of Pest Management	Sustainable pest management

Fellows
Name	Title	Research topics
Dr Emma Cavan	IC Research Fellow	Marine carbon cycle, biogeochemistry, ecology, climate change and fishing
Dr Magda Charalambous	Principal Teaching Fellow	Sexual selection and population differentiation in insects
Dr Vassiliki Koufopanou	Research Fellow	Microbial genetics and evolution
Dr Fengjie Liu	Research Fellow	Impacts of human activities on ecosystem functioning and environmental health
Dr David Orme	Teaching Fellow	Biodiversity and climate change
Dr. Mike Tristem	Principal Teaching Fellow	Viral evolution
Dr Chris Wilson	NERC Fellow	Causes and consequences of obligately asexual evolution

Honorary staff
Name	Title	Research topics
Professor Miguel Araujo	Visiting Professor	Biogeography, conservation planning, global change biology, and macroecology
Professor John Beddington CMG, FRS	Honorary Principal Research Fellow
Professor Mick Crawley FRS	Emeritus Professor of Plant Ecology	Ecological field experiments and theory
Professor Charles Godfray FRS	Honorary Principal Research Fellow
Professor Michael P Hassell CBE FRS	Honorary Principal Research Fellow
Professor Russ Lande FRS	Emeritus Professor of Population Biology	Evolutionary and ecological theory, and conservation
Professor E J Milner-Gulland	Visiting Professor	Conservation science, ecosystem services
Professor Hugh Possingham	Visiting Professor	Pure and applied population ecology
Dr Michael Themis	Honorary Lecturer
Professor Tim Barraclough	Visiting Professor	Evolution of species diversity
Dr Aurelio Malo	Honorary Lecturer	Evolution of phenotypic and life-history traits in mammals

Seminar Series

Ecology and Evolution seminars (Thursdays)