Principal Investigator
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Daniel Pincheira-Donoso
Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology & Macroecology School of Biological Sciences Queen’s University Belfast 19 Chlorine Gardens Belfast, BT9 5DL United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +44(0)28 9097 2967 Office: 02.065 Personal Page Departmental Web Google Scholar Profile |
Evolutionary biologist and macroecologist, interested in the links between evolutionary theory and large-scale patterns of biodiversity. His research investigates the ecological sources of natural selection that drive the origin, distribution and extinctions of biodiversity at broad spatial and temporal scales.
Daniel is primarily interested in vertebrate model systems (mostly amphibians and reptiles), and is the Head of the Global Amphibian Biodiversity Project (GABiP) initiative and a scientific member of the Global Assessment of Reptile Distributions (GARD) initiative. |
Postgraduate Students
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Jacinta Guirguis
PhD Biological Sciences (2022-2026) Funded by the QUADRAT NERC DTP, United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] |
Jacinta is an evolutionary macroecologist interested in the mechanisms underlying the spatial organisation and the decline of biodiversity at large scales.
Her work is primarily focused on vertebrate model systems, with a special focus on amphibian biodiversity. She is interested in the wide range of modern phylogenetic modeling tools available to address hypotheses. |
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Luke Goodyear
PhD Biological Sciences (2021-2024) Funded by the Department of Economy (DfE), Northern Ireland, United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] |
Luke is a computational biologist interested in the factors that contribute to disease susceptibility in amphibians.
His research focuses on the role of the amphibian skin microbiome, investigating the factors that influence its structure and its effect on an amphibian's response to the disease-causing fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which has been implicated in amphibian extinctions worldwide. |
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Mauricio Ocampo
PhD Biological Sciences - Ecology of Arid Zones Based at Universidad de La Serena (Chile) E-mail: [email protected] Google Scholar Profile ResearchGate Profile PhD Programme in Ecology of Arid Zones |
Mauricio is a biologist specialised in herpetology. His interests are focused on the taxonomy, biodiversity, and ecology of reptiles and amphibians. His research has mostly focused on the herpetological diversity of the Andes and Southwestern Amazon in South America. His PhD project aims to investigate the role that a number of functional traits have played in the exceptional diversification of lizards of the family Liolaemidae.
Mauricio is enrolled in the PhD programme in Ecology of Arid Zones at Universidad de La Serena in Chile, where he works under the primary supervision of Dr Rodrigo Ríos, and is a member of the MacroBiodiversity Lab under the co-supervision of Daniel. |
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Jhoann Canto
PhD Biological Sciences (UNED, 2021-2026) Head of the Division of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History of Chile E-mail: [email protected] |
Jhoann is a mammal biologist interested in the systematics, ecology and evolutionary biology of marine mammals.
His PhD project aims to elucidate the drivers behind the morphological diversity of cetacean body shape, with a primary focus on skull architecture on a global scale. Jhoann has a BSc in Education (Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile), followed by a MSc in Education and Research (Universidad Central, Chile), and is currently a PhD student based at UNED (Spain), co-supervised by Daniel Pincheira-Donoso at Queen’s University. He is the Head of the Section of Vertebrate Zoology at the National Museum of Natural History of Chile, and an adjunct lecturer at the Universidad Santo Tomas and Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and has over two decades of experience working on marine mammals. |
Affiliated Researchers
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Lilly P. Harvey
PhD Student and Academic Associate Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University Senior Research Scientist, Global Amphibian Biodiversity Project (GABiP) E-mail: [email protected] |
Ecologist and conservation biologist interested in the macroecology of species distributions. She is also interested in data-science and in the application of machine learning to the understanding of factor networks that enhance extinction risk among amphibians globally. In the past, she has also worked on the ecology of adaptive radiations in South American lizards.
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Hall of Fame - Alumni
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Dr Florencia Grattarola
PhD Evolution & Ecology, University of Lincoln, UK (2017-2020) After the MacroBiodiversity Lab: Postdoctoral Researcher at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague |
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Dr Iker Vaquero-Alba
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Lincoln, UK (2015-2017) After the MacroBiodiversity Lab: Postdoctoral Researcher at Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Spain |
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Dr Manuel Jara
PhD Evolution & Ecology, University of Lincoln, UK (2013-2017) After the MacroBiodiversity Lab: Postdoctoral Researcher at North Carolina State University, USA |
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Dr Ratheesh Kallivalappil
PhD Evolution & Ecology (2017-2021) |
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Dr Roberto García-Roa
Visiting PhD Student in Ecology, Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain (2017) After the MacroBiodiversity Lab: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Valencia, Spain |
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Rachel Hickcox
MSc Ecology & Evolution, University of Lincoln, UK (2014-2015) After the MacroBiodiversity Lab: PhD student at University of Otago, New Zealand |
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Alba Frías de Diego
MSc Ecology, University of Lincoln, UK (2016-2017) After the MacroBiodiversity Lab: PhD student at North Carolina State University, USA |
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Ashley Reaney
MSc Ecology & Evolution, University of Lincoln, UK (2015-2016) After the MacroBiodiversity Lab: PhD student at Imperial College of London, UK |
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Joshua Lambert
MSc Ecology & Evolution, University of Lincoln, UK (2017-2018) After the MacroBiodiversity Lab: PhD student at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
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Ellie Wood
BSc Biology, University of Lincoln, UK (2015-2016) After the MacroBiodiversity Lab: PhD student at King's College London, UK |
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Sophie Potter
MSc Ecology, University of Exeter, UK (2008-2009) Sophie predates the MacroBiodiversity Lab: then PhD student at Carleton University, Canada |
Laura Deacon, MSc Evolution & Ecology, University of Lincoln, UK (2015)
Tatjana Hoehfurtner, MSc Evolution & Ecology, University of Lincoln, UK (2015)
Adam Brett, BSc Biology, University of Lincoln, UK (2015)
Alesha Dahir, BSc Biology, University of Lincoln, UK (2015)
Daniel Messer, BSc Biology, University of Lincoln, UK (2015)
Topaz Reid, BSc Biology, University of Lincoln, UK (2015)
Kimberley Unkin, BSc Biology, University of Lincoln, UK (2015)
Katherine Beadle, BSc Biology, University of Lincoln, UK (2014)
Laura Mack, BSc Bioveterinary Sciences, University of Lincoln UK (2014)
Sophie Wild, BSc Bioveterinary Sciences, University of Lincoln UK (2014)
Valerie Jones, BSc Animal Behaviour Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK (2013)
Rhianna Larner, BSc Animal Behaviour Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK (2013)
