Ryan Chisholm
Associate Professor (Office: S3-01-11)

Ryan is a theoretical ecologist with an interest in tropical forest ecology and biodiversity. Current major research projects aim to understand the mechanisms responsible for large-scale patterns of tree diversity in tropical forests and to estimate extinction rates in the tropics. Download Ryan’s CV here.

Tak Fung
Senior Research Fellow

Tak constructs and uses mathematical models to investigate processes governing population dynamics in complex ecosystems. He studied Mathematics at Imperial College London as an undergraduate, before doing two PhDs at University College London and Queen’s University Belfast, on modelling the dynamics of coral reef and temperate marine shelf ecosystems. Tak is working on a range of projects including models of tropical forest dynamics and epidemiological models of dengue in Singapore. More details on Tak can be found at his personal website.

Sankar Ananthanarayanan
PhD Student

Sankar is a PhD student who graduated with a BSc (Hons.) in Life Sciences from NUS in 2019. He is interested in applying population viability analysis to reptiles in rapidly changing Southeast Asian landscapes. He hopes such studies can provide key insights into developing conservation and reintroduction strategies for these creatures.

Ho Ning
PhD Student

Ho Ning is a PhD student interested in exploring the anthropogenic factors that influence population ecology, hoping to advance and drive better-informed and holistic conservation efforts. Broadly, she is also interested in the multi-faceted relationship between the natural environment and the public.

Zhu Mingyi
PhD Student

Mingyi is a PhD student currently interested in the mechanisms underlying biodiversity as well as evolutionary game theory. He believes there are similarities and common grounds that can be found between these two seemingly unrelated fields

Angelica See
PhD Student

Angelica is interested in studying the effects of habitat fragmentation on tropical ecosystems. She graduated with an environmental science degree specialising in ecology from Nanyang Technological University. Her main supervisor is Junying Lim in the Plant Ecology, Evolution & Biogeography Lab.

Xie Lei
Visiting PhD Student

Xie Lei is a visiting PhD student from Nanjing Forestry University. His research focuses on the mechanisms governing tree species coexistence in forest dynamics plots in the Huangshan and Wuyi Mountains, with an emphasis on testing for negative density dependence. Additionally, he is interested in the maintenance of subtropical phyllosphere microbial diversity.

Aadithi Gopalakrishnan
Intern

Aadithi is currently doing an internship in the lab. She completed a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from PES University in Bengaluru, India, and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Wildlife Conservation. For her Master’s thesis, she has used passive acoustic recorders to estimate the density of the critically endangered Straw-headed Bulbul in Pulau Ubin, Singapore. She endeavours to use technology to strengthen wildlife conservation strategies.

Randall Ho
Honour’s Student

Randall is an Honours student interested in studying the species assemblages of lentic freshwater fishes. He is applying niche–neutral models to investigate how dispersal and niche structure shape patterns of community assembly.