My research is focused on understanding how individual-level attributes (behaviour, physiology, morphology) influence higher-level (groups, populations) processes in terms of ecology and evolution. My interests span: (a) animal personality & behavioural syndromes,  (b) social network analysis and collective behaviour, (c) animal cognition, (d) human-induced rapid environmental change (tourism, harvest, pollution), and (e) the use of animal tracking technologies and electronic sensory tags in ecology and conservation.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind – Albert Szent-Györgyi

Research on these topics have led me to conduct research in terrestrial, freshwater and marine (coral reefs, estuary, pelagic, deep-sea) systems across Australia, The Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Trinidad, and the UK.

Current animal systems of research focus include freshwater stream fishes and amphibians in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica as well as marine species in the UK (mainly the common cuttlefish and a variety of fishes/invertebrates).

I am currently recruiting post docs and postgraduate students (particularly for ResM and MRes programmes at the University of Plymouth), please contact me if you are interested and would like to discuss funding and research opportunities.