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

Ryan is a theoretical ecologist with an interest in tropical forest ecology and biodiversity. He completed an undergraduate degree in Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. 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
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 currently working on models of tropical rainforests that aim to (1) quantify how speciation, immigration, dispersal and demographic stochasticity interact to alter the richness-productivity relationship and (2) establish the importance of environmental stochasticity in producing spatiotemporal patterns of species abundances commensurate with empirical data. More details on Tak can be found at his personal website.

Nadiah Kristensen
Research Fellow

Nadiah is a theoretical ecologist with broad interests in dynamical systems. She is currently working on models for estimating species extinction rates from incomplete data, as part of our lab’s Singapore extinctions project, and also on models of social evolution. More details on Nadiah can be found at her personal website.

Martin Trappe
Senior Research Fellow

Martin is a physicist with a background in quantum mechanics and density functional theory. Martin holds a 50% appointment in our lab and is applying techniques from theoretical physics to study complex ecological systems, with a particular focus on models of temporal environmental variance.

Lahiru Wijedasa
PhD student

Lahiru is interested in land-use change, taxonomy and conservation issues. His PhD project addresses land-use change and conservation in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on plants and peat swamp forest.

Deon Lum
Research Assistant

Deon is a research assistant who is applying our extinction models to data sets of mammals and birds from around the world.

 

Shane Chiok Wen Xuan
Research Assistant

Shane is a research assistant who is working on the biogeography of birds in Sundaland, in collaboration with Frank Rheindt’s lab.