Ryan has just returned from France, where he gave a series of guest lectures and workshops to the Erasmus Mundus International Master in Applied Ecology programme at the University of Poitiers. This Masters programme draws in students from all around the world and allows students to rotate between different countries in the European Union over two years.

Ryan also visited and presented seminars at Jerome Chave’s lab at the University of Toulouse and at the Station for Theoretical and Experimental Ecology in Moulis, nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees.