I am a Lecturer based at Queen's University Belfast in the School of Biological Sciences. I am also an Associate Editor at Marine Biology, Subject Editor at NeoBiota, Honorary Research Associate at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Invasion Biology (Stellenbosch University), and a Member of the Young Academy Ireland.

Currently, I hold a New Investigator Award, funded by BBSRC (UKRI). Previously, I held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Queen's, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 

My research interests broadly gravitate around global changes and their impacts on ecosystems, economies and health. My most recent research has centred around the following specific themes:

• dynamics, impacts, and management of biological invasions;

• ecology and virology of arthropod vectors of human and animal disease;

• interacting effects of multiple stressors on ecosystems and socio-economies.

I collaborate widely with colleagues in natural and social sciences within and across these themes. I am open to student supervision in these areas.

Biological invasions, climate change, disease vector biology, ecosystems, plastics pollution, socio-economic impacts, trophic interactions, water quality

Academic history

2025– : Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast

2019–: Honorary Research Associate, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity

2022–2025: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Queen's University Belfast

2020–2022: Visiting Scholar, Queen's University Belfast

2020–2022: Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

2016–2019: PhD Biology, Queen's University Belfast 

2014–2016: MSc Ecological Management and Conservation Biology (Distinction), Queen's University Belfast (part-time)

2011–2014: BSc (Hons) Geography (First Class), Queen's University Belfast

BIO1315 Environmental Biology / BIO1309 Environmental Sciences

MED1021 One Health and Pandemic Preparedness

BIO2107 Applied Ecology with Field Course / BIO2317 Applied Ecology (Module Co-Ordinator)

BIO2316 Scientific Research Skills: From Fieldwork to Reporting

BIO2319 Plants, People, Planet

BIO3308 Research Project (BSc)

BIO4301 Research Project (MSci)

BBC8001 / BIO8302 Research Project (MSc)

BBC8034 Ecological Management and Conservation Biology