Education

  • Ph.D. Botany (2007)
    School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods (2005)
    School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • M.Sc. Environmental Resource Management (2002)    
    Faculty of Agriculture, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • B.Sc. Economics (1999) Faculty of Economics, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

Academic appointments

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz,
78457 Konstanz, Germany

 March 11-
present

Principal Investigator – Research Fellow
School of Agriculture, Food Science, and Veterinary Medicine University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

 Feb. 08 –
Feb. 11

Visiting Researcher
Botany Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 96822 Honolulu, HI

 Apr. 10 –
June 10

Post-doctoral Research Associate
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 87287 Tempe, AZ

 Sept.07 -
Jan. 08

Editorial Work

Subject Editor for Ecosphere

Professional affiliations

Board of Directors of the Society for Conservation Biology - European Section

Outreach activities

Science Ambassador, Ireland (http://www.mysciencecareer.ie/)

Collaborations

  • Giovanni Bacaro, Alessandro Chiarucci, Simona Maccherini
    BIOCONNET, BIOdiversity and CONservation NETwork
    Department of Environmental Science "G. Sarfatti", University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
  • Collaboration on developing analytical protocols to analyse community data
    Bruce Osborne
    Eco-physiology Group, UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
  • Collaboration on the ecology and biology of the invasive herbaceous species Gunnera tinctoria (Molina) Mirbel