IoZ Staff & PhD Students

Director of the Institute of Zoology

Professor Tim Blackburn

Research Theme Leaders

Professor Andrew Cunningham (Wildlife Epidemiology)
Dr Chris Carbone (Biodiversity & Macroecology)
Dr Guy Cowlishaw (Behavioural & Population Ecology)
Dr Sarah Durant (People, Wildlife & Ecosystems)
Dr Trenton Garner (Evolution & Molecular Ecology)

Joint ZSL and University College London Staff

Professor Kate Jones (Joint UCL and ZSL Chair, Ecology and Biodiversity)

Senior Research Fellows

Dr Paul Jepson
Dr Tony Sainsbury
Dr Jinliang Wang
Dr Rosie Woodroffe (Postgraduate Tutor)

Research Fellows

Dr Patricia Brekke
Dr John Ewen
Dr Xavier Harrison
Dr Kirsty Kemp
Dr Becki Lawson (Wildlife Veterinarian)
Dr Ellouise Leadbeater
Dr Sinead Murphy
Dr Nathalie Pettorelli
Dr Marcus Rowcliffe
Dr Samuel Turvey

Postdoctoral Research Assistants

Dr Jon Bielby
Dr Monika Böhm
Dr Kelly Moyes
Dr David Redding
Dr Grigorios Skolidis

Postgraduate Research Assistants

Ricardo Castro Cesar de Sa
Dr Alienor Chauvenet
Tim Hopkins
Louise McRae
Kayna Prescott
Naomi Stratton

Research Technicians

Dada Gottelli (Chief Technician)
Dr Chris Durrant (Senior Technician & Biosafety Officer)
Robert Deaville (Cetacean Strandings Project Manager)
Matthew Perkins
Olivia Daniel
Shinto John
Gabriela Peniche

Project Assistants

Stefanie Deinet (LPI Administrator)
Becky Shu Chen (Project Coordinator - DI Project)

Administration and Support Staff

Christina Herterich (Administration Manager)
Amrit Dehal (Administrator - Information Systems)
Idrish Dudhwala (Administrator - Finance)
David Hitchcock (Administrator - Buildings & Capital Projects)
Jo Keogh (PA/Administrator to Director, Admin Manager and Theme Leaders)
Lynne Rushton (Administrator - Health & Safety)

Honorary Research Associates

Dr Teresa Abaiger
Dr Boris Dzyuba
Dr Simon Goodman
Dr Marcella Kelly
Dr Julie Leonard
Dr Sarah Whitmee

Visiting Research Fellows

Dr Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse
Dr Kamran Safi