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.

Nadiah Kristensen
Visiting Scholar

Nadiah is a theoretical ecologist with broad interests in dynamical systems. She is currently working on applications of evolutionary game theory to conservation problems. More details on Nadiah can be found at her 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.

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.

Li Lijuan
Visiting PhD Student

Lijuan is a visiting PhD student from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on montane biodiversity, and she is particularly interested in how environmental, ecological, and macro-evolutionary mechanisms combine to determine the co-occurrence of species and the structure of assemblages. She is currently working on statistical analyses of empirical data on plant communities in the Hengduan Mountains and conducting related mechanistic modelling.

Zhu Mingyi
Master’s Student

Mingyi is a Master’s student interested in the evolution of co-operation. He is using higher-level relatedness models to explore how kin selection and threshold effects can interact to allow co-operation to evolve in large populations with multiple strategies.

Ng Jing Ting
Honours Student

Jing Ting is an Honours student in the Computational Biology programme. Her Honours project involves exploring the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as lockdowns, on the total disease burden in a population using simple epidemiological models. She previously completed her third-year Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme in Science (UROPS) project in our lab, in which she used a Gibbs sampler to fit historical extinction models to data.

Andrew Teoh
Second-year Special Programme in Science Student

Andrew is a second-year Life Sciences student working on a computational project exploring tree dispersal in forests with Jun Yuan and Zhen Jie. He is interested in biodiversity and bioinformatics.

Cheng Jun Yuan
Second-year Special Programme in Science Student

Jun Yuan is a second-year Mathematics student, working on a computational project exploring tree dispersal in forests with Andrew and Zhen Jie. He is interested in bioinformatics.

Chin Zhen Jie
Second-year Special Programme in Science Student

Zhen Jie is a second-year student, majoring in Life Sciences. He is working on a computational project exploring tree dispersion in forests with Andrew and Jun Yuan. He is interested in computational applications in scientific research, such as simulations.