I am the Knowledge Transfer Leader at the Centre for Data Analysis, Modelling and Computational Sciences (CAMINO) at the University of Łódź, Poland. I am also based in the Department of Ecology & Vertebrate Zoology, University of Łódź, Poland, and additionally work at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.
I was formerly Reader in Zoology at the University of St Andrews, UK and held lectureships at the University of Leicester, UK and Queen Mary College of the University of London. Before my first lectureship, I held a research fellowship at the University of East Anglia, UK, worked as a fish ecologist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK, served as an aid worker for Voluntary Service Overseas in Bangladesh, and worked for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. I completed a PhD in fish ecology at the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and I am the author of over 150 scientific papers and six books.
My research interests are in ecology and evolution, statistical modelling, and applying informative Bayesian priors to ecological and evolutionary models. I regularly run free online statistics workshops, and you are welcome to contact me to discuss courses tailored to your specific research group or institute.