Aimara Planillo
Aimara is a postdoc working on developing new functional connectivity metrics for carnivores in Europe as part of NaturaConnect. She is an expert in carnivore movement analyses and is developing multi-species spatially explicit movement models to better understand the role of species interactions when designing functional connectivity networks.
Ana Morales González
Ana just defended her PhD, where she assessed wolf range expansion using spatially explicit individual-based models. She is now joining the team as a postdoc focusing on biodiversity and dynamic N-mixture models using our soil fauna monitoring data.
Candela Yáñez da Silva
Candela is a research assistant in our team. She manages the experiments and monitoring of dung-beetle and shrub interactions in the LIFECAST project in Doñana and the Kalahari. She also manages many of our datasets - and nothing would run without her!
guillermo gómez peña
Guillermo is a PhD student in the LIFECAST project. He is modelling how invertebrate-plant interactions scale up to affect ecosystem structure under global change. He did his MS thesis in our team working on developing an analytical framework to assess total numbers of roadkill across various vertebrate groups (co-supervised by Marcello D'Amico).
Hanna Serediuk
Hanna is postdoctoral researcher who is about to join us from the State Museum of Natural History in Lviv, Ukraine. Hanna is an entomologist, and will work on analysing soil fauna history traits, with a focus on Neuroptera. She will also work on assessing how lacewings respond to climate change.
John Jackson
John joined our team as a Marie Curie fellow. His ClimRes project explores how wildlife populations interact with their environment, how humans will affect them in the future, and how we can use this understanding to conserve biodiversity.
Maria Paniw
Maria leads the teams. She is keen on investigating how predictions of population dynamics can be improved by accounting for trait dynamics, environmental and spatial patterning, and tradeoffs between survival and reproduction; and on potential evolutionary consequences of environmental change. You can download her CV here (last update: Oct 2023).
Sanne evers
Sanne is a postdoc working on developing a Digital Twin for terrestrial ecosystems in Doñana Protected Area. She is an expert in demographic modelling and is developing multi-species spatially explicit demographic models to better understand how demographic feedbacks scale up to affect ecosystem processes.
Sonja Huber
Sonja is a JAE Intro student and is modelling the invertebrate diversity from our pitfall trapping in the Kalahari. She is also looking into assessing and modelling life-history dynamics of dung beetles in Doñana National Park.
TERESA SANCHEZ MEJIA
Teresa is a PhD student at CREAF. She is developing individual-based models of interacting shrub populations to explore how traits, demography, and trophic interactions (with herbivores and seed predators) affect shrub resilience to drought. Her works includes individual monitoring of 4 shrub species in Doñana National Park.
Beatrice Masella
Beatrice is a PhD student based at the University of Pavia, Italy. She works on assessing demography and population dynamics of Alpine marmots in the Gran Paraiso National Park. Beatrice will spend one year with DEMOCAST learning all about demographic modelling.
Matthew clements
Matt Clements is a PhD student at University of Sheffield. He is working on density structured population models, including data of shrub communities from Doñana National Park and invasive plants from the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains. He is collecting much of the landscape-level data in Doñana. Matt is taking on the challenge of parameterising such models for more complex life cycles that the annual species that have been traditionally used.