1993-1996 BSc ARCS Zoology (first class honours), Imperial College, University of London, UK
1996-2000 PhD in behavioural ecology (thesis entitled ‘Reserve changes in breeding birds’), School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
2000-2001 Temporary lecturer in Animal Behaviour, School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
2001-2004 Post-doctoral research associate, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK & Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK
2004-2005 Post-doctoral research fellow, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter in Cornwall, UK & Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
2006-2012 Lecturer in Biology of Animal Behaviour and Welfare, School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
2008- Member of science steering committee for Wild Equid Protection Trust
2009 Elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
2012- Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
2006-2012 Academic editor for PLoS One (Ecology Section Editor between 2008 and 2011)
2008- Associate editor for BMC Research Notes
2009- Associate editor for Methods in Ecology and Evolution
2010- Associate editor for Ecosphere
2012- Associate editor for BMC Ecology
American Naturalist,
Animal Behaviour,
Animal Welfare,
Annals of Botany,
Behavioral Ecology,
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology,
Behaviour,
Behavioural Processes,
Biology Letters,
BMC Ecology,
BMC Veterinary Research,
Bulletin of Insectology,
Computers & Education,
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture,
Condor,
Ecology,
Ecology Letters,
Ethology,
Evolution,
Functional Ecology,
Ibis,
International Journal of Modern Physics C,
International Journal of Primatology,
Journal of Animal Ecology,
Journal of Applied Ecology,
Journal of Avian Biology,
Journal of Field Ornithology,
Journal of the Royal Society: Interface,
Journal of Theoretical Biology,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B,
PLoS Computational Biology,
PLoS One,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA,
Proceedings of the Royal Society B,
Trends in Parasitology,
Wildlife Biology in Practice, and several journals that do not deserve naming here due to their predatory open access model.
I have refereed several book chapters, and grant applications for the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK), the British Academy, ANR (l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France), GAČR (Grantová agentura České republiky, Czech Republic) and NRF (National Research Foundation, South Africa)
2002 Co-organiser, Postgraduate training workshop for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Easter conference, University of Bristol, 15th April
2009 Organiser, South West Animal Behaviour (SWAB) meeting, University of Bristol, 30th-31st March
2009 Member of local organisation committee, Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution, University of Bristol, 10th-11th September
1998 Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Easter Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland
1998 International Behavioral Ecology Congress, Pacific Grove, California, USA
1998 British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Leicester, England
1999 Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Easter Meeting, Newcastle, England
1999 British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Leeds, England
2000 Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Easter Meeting, Sheffield, England
2000 International Behavioral Ecology Congress, Zürich, Switzerland
2002 International Behavioral Ecology Congress, Montréal, Canada
2004 Workshop in communal decision making, Zürich, Switzerland
2007 public research talk, Institute of Zoology, London, England
2008 European Conference in Behavioural Biology, Dijon, France
2008 ARETE Initiative ‘Defining Wisdom’ Symposium, University of Chicago, USA
2009 Great Western Research Sustainability Exchange Conference, Exeter, England
2010 British Society for Parasitology Annual Meeting, Cardiff, Wales
2010 New Directions in Sexual Selection Research, Bath, England
2010 British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Leeds, England
2011 British Society for Parasitology Annual Meeting, Nottingham, England
2011 Mathematical Modelling in Ecology and Evolution 2011, Groningen, Netherlands
2011 Mathematical and Theoretical Ecology 2011, Colchester, England
2011 Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Winter Meeting, London, England
2012 British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, London, England
2012 Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, Salzburg, Austria
2013 Biology of tropical pollinators: from individuals to networks, South Paravoor, Kerala, India
Details of talks and posters which I did not present but am a co-author on are available on the University of Bristol's publications database
1999 Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden
1999 Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Sweden
1999 Department of Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
2001 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, England
2002 Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Stirling, Scotland
2002 Institute of Zoology, London, England
2004 Department of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales
2005 School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland
2005 Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Polytechnic University, England
2005 School of Biological Sciences, Liverpool University, England
2006 Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, England
2006 School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, England
2008 Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol, England
2009 Department of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales
2010 Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, England
2011 Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, L'Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
2011 School of Biomedical and Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, England
2012 Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of Ornithology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2013 IISER Thiruvanathapuram, India