Professor of Ecology (2015-present) Principal Investigator and Director of the Ecology, Conservation, and Environment Center (ECEC), a joint venture of UEA with the Kunming Institute of Zoology (www.kiz.ac.cn/en) (2008-present) Reader - University of East Anglia (2010-2015) Lecturer - University of East Anglia (2000-2010) Postdoctoral research associate, Imperial College Centre for Population Biology (1999-2000) Ph.D. - Harvard University (1997) NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College (1998) B.Sc. - Biology, Princeton University (1987)

Conservation (cooperation between humans and nature) and

Mutualisms (cooperation between species).

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