Meet the group members. Emma Cunningham Emma is a behavioural ecologist interested in the impact of environmental variation on animal populations. She has a particular interest in the impact of the environment in early life and the long terms implications this has on infection and disease.She joined the University of Edinburgh as a Royal Society University Research Fellow after a PhD at the University of Sheffield and Research Fellowships at the University of Cambridge and University of California Santa Barbara. She is now Professor of Ecology and Disease in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution in the School of Biological Sciences. As well as being involved in research and teaching she is also Director of the Centre for Adapting to Changing Environments (ACE) and Deputy Director of the E4 and E5 Doctoral Training Programmes. Emma Cunningham Hannah Ravenswater Hannah is a NERC funded Post-Doctoral Researcher and has been part of the group since September 2018. Her research investigates the impacts infection and disease in wild bird populations. She has a particular interests in how seasonality and early life conditions may influence variability in exposure and host responses to infection. Her current focus is on the impacts of the latest outbreak of avian influenza and species differences in exposure and susceptibility to different viral pathogens. Hannah Ravenswater Francisco Ruiz-Raya Fran is a post-doctoral research fellow interested in the proximate mechanisms underlying individual variation in animal behaviour and life-history traits. After completing his PhD at the University of Granada he took up a post-doctoral position at the Universidade de Vigo before joining the group where he is currently testing how levels of infection may influence migration behaviour and how, in turn, migration impacts on levels of infection in seabirds. Stephen Vickers Stephen is a computational ecologist interested in movement ecology, migration, and disease ecology. After gaining his PhD at the University of East Anglia he took up a post-doctoral position at the Royal Veterinary College to investigate how citizen science data can inform on likely outbreak areas for avian influenza. Since joining the group he is working on modelling how infection may drive migratory behaviour and testing whether migratory escape, migratory recovery or migratory culling may explain patterns of movement in animal populations. Stephen Vickers Fiona Greco Fiona is a PhD student in the group, having started in Sept 2020 as a part of the E4 Doctoral Training Partnership. She has a background in veterinary medicine and interests in the relationship between environmental change and parasitism in wild animal populations. In collaboration with researchers at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), she is examing how variation in migratory strategy and co-infection status of the European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) impacts upon host-parasite dynamics, fitness-related traits and subsequent population demography. However laterally she has been focused on the impacts of avian influenza in wildfowl and seabirds. Fiona Greco Amelia Corvin-Czarnodolski Amelia started her PhD in 2024 and is part of the E4 Doctoral Training Programme. She is investigating the impact of infection in wild seabird populations for her PhD. She has a background in marine biology and molecular ecology and is interested in seabird spatial ecology and impacts on infection. Amelia Corvin-Czarnodolski This article was published on 2024-06-17
