Team

Group members are listed below, along with links to individual pages. The group members are also on the group’s page on the departmental website.

Current members

Alumni

Past members of the group, and where they went next:

  • Lina Hasenfratz — Bachelor’s thesis, 2025–2026
  • Paula Stöckli — Bachelor’s thesis, 2025–2026
  • Chris Clements — PhD 2011–2014
  • Aurélie Garnier — PhD 2014–2018; postdoc in Hamburg on spatio-temporal food web dynamics in the Baltic Sea
  • Gian Marco Palamara — PhD student & postdoc
  • Marco Plebani — PhD student
  • Thomas Massie — postdoctoral researcher
  • Mikael Pontarp — postdoctoral fellow; later at Lund University, now at RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden), continuing biodiversity modelling at the interface between academia and industry, within large national and EU research consortia
  • Aabir Banerji — postdoctoral researcher, 2011–2013
  • Aaron Thierry — PhD 2008–2012, biological network structure; later a postdoc at the School of GeoSciences, Global Change Research Institute, Edinburgh
  • Emily Green (now Emily Griffiths) — PhD 2009–2013, indirect effects of vaccination programmes; later a postdoc on Dengue transmission at North Carolina State University
  • Oliver Beveridge — PhD 2006–2010, “Swimming in hot water”; later modelling bird distributions as a postdoc at Durham University
  • Nick Worsfold — PhD 2004–2008, consequences of extinction in experimental aquatic communities; later academic posts at the University of York, now Lecturer in Environmental Science at the University of Bedfordshire
  • Dan Leary — PhD 2004–2008, determinants of ecosystem variability in microbial microcosms; later NERC Parliamentary Liaison Officer, then Foresight Project Manager at the UK Government Office for Science
  • Katie Horgan — PhD student and research assistant
  • Susanne Schulmeister — Global Change and Biodiversity MOOC co-creator and producer, 2016–2018
  • Also: Marcus Cianciaruso, Jason Rip, Edd Hammill, Beth Atkinson, Andrew Cole, Kez Watt, Nick Clark, Mahtab Mohebbi, Emily Oliveira, Gustavo Henrique de Carvalho, Rebecca Stewart, Roger Bachmann, Peter Schmid, Suzanne Greene, Severin Roffler, Marquita Brilliante, Hao Yiqi, Philippe Saner, Ivelina Grozeva, Jason Griffiths, Louis Sutter, Pablo Antiqueira, Dominik Schmid, Mirjam Schärer, Valérian Zeender, Mike Amato, Philipp Dermond, and Cedric Bachmann.