Institute of Evolutionary Biology
Kings Buildings
The University of Edinburgh
As a conservation geneticist, I am broadly interested in how we can use genetic methods and analyses to inform conservation measures in the U.K. My PhD is investigating using museomics as a tool to understand extinctions and inform re-introductions of UK butterflies. This involves close cooperation with Restore, a restoration and ecological consultancy based in Devon, to implement my scientific findings.
2025 - present PhD: 'Using museomics to understand extinctions and inform re-introductions of UK butterflies’. University of Edinburgh
2024 - 2025: Research Assistant for ECOFLU, University of Edinburgh : Understanding the ecology of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in wild bird populations.
2024 : Research Intern for ANTSIE, University of Durham : Using molecular tools to study sexual dimorphism and population history of Antarctic Petrels, with ANTSIE (Antarctic Sea Ice as a Novel Biological Archive)
2019-2024: BSc Zoology, University of Glasgow. Honours Project on the Optimisation of a DNA Barcoding Protocol to Assess the Diets of sub-Antarctic Top Predators and Scavengers