I am a botanist by first degree, an ecologist by virtue of my MSc degree and a systems dynamics modeller of plankton ecophysiology via my PhD and research activities. My background allows me to interface with a wide science base both for research and teaching.
I have a keen interest in working at the interface of science, governance and the public. Thus, I have worked as Managing Editor for the Journal of Plankton Research (Oxford University Press), as Climate Change Research Consultant on a WLGA funded project, as Biodiversity Officer for Bridgend County Borough Council, as a British Science Association Media Fellow with BBC Countryfile.
More recently, in research, I have been a key driver of the new mixoplankton-centric paradigm in marine ecology championing the cause of nature’s “Perfect Beasts”. I authored a Scientific American article on the Perfect Beast (March 2018). This was selected for the Scientific American Revolutions in Science Special Issue (July 2018) as one of the “13 discoveries that could change everything”. This article has also been translated into French and German.
