Senior Research Fellow & Royal Society Research Fellow, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK (2015-present) Royal Society University Research Fellow, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK (2013-present) NERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK (2012-2013) NERC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bristol, UK (2010-2012) Postdoctoral Associate, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, UK (2006-2010) Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Birmingham, UK (2005-2006) PhD, University of Bath, UK (2001-2005) MSc Palaeobiology, University of Bristol, UK (2001) BSc (Hons) Ecology, Cardiff University, Wales (1998)

Phylogeny, diversification and trait evolution My research focuses on modelling the diversification of species and traits at a macroevolutionary scale. I am particularly interested in how we can use information on the phylogenetic relationships among species to infer how present day biodiversity has arisen over time and ask: How and why do lineages and traits diversify? What are the consequences of varying tempo and mode of lineage and trait evolution for temporal and spatial patterns of diversity? My lab are currently preoccupied with collecting a large database of bill shapes and plumage colours from all extant bird species (~10,000 species) using museum study skins (mainly the NHM at Tring and also the University of Manchester Museum).