Experienced consultant field ecologist having provided mitigation expertise at/for a number of UK sites/consultancies.

(2014-2015) Consultant Ecologist (habitat & training officer), Froglife (UK).

(2012 – 2013) Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen (UK)

(2008 - 2012) Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Organisms and Environment Group, Cardiff Uni. (UK).

(2007 – 2008) Postdoctoral Research Co-ordinator, Epidemiology Group, Inst. Zoology (UK).

(2004 – 2007) Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Inst. for Evol. Biology (Germany).

Uni. of Sussex (UK) D.Phil (Biological Sciences).

Uni. of Wales (UK) M.Sc (Ecology).

Uni. of Greenwich (UK) B.Ed (Education)

My interests lie in studying interactions between the genomes of organisms and their environment, focusing on three areas:-

How social, ecological, behavioural, host-parasite, climatic, structural and demographic/ temporal parameters shape the genome, How these factors lead to epigenetic/genetic adaptations and their role in locally adapted traits, The implications these have for the fitness of an individual/population/species, the mechanisms responsible for their persistence and ultimately how these lead to evolution/ speciation.

Brede EG, Gilbert MTP, Bruford MW (in prep). A mitogenome approach for interspecies comparisons in three Madagascan Rallidae (Amaurornis olivieri, Canirallus kioloides, Canirallus). Mol. Ecol Brede EG (in press). May the best (fittest) newt win!…a study of a historically introduced non-native amphibian (Triturus carnifex). Amphib.Rep., XX, xxx-xxx. Eberhart-Phillips LJ, Hoffman JI, Brede EG, Zefania S, Kamrad M, Székely T, Bruford MW (2015). Contrasting genetic diversity and population structure among three sympatric Madagascan shorebirds: parallels with rarity, endemism, and dispersal. Ecol.& Evol., 5(5), 997-1010. Adis J, Sperber CF, Brede EG, et al (2008b). On morphometric differences in the grasshopper C. aquaticum from Eichhornia in South America and South Africa. J. of Orthop Res. 17,141-7. Brede EG, Adis J, Schneider P (2008a). Genetic diversity, population structure and gene flow in native populations of a proposed biocontrol agent (C. aquaticum).Biol. J. Linn.Soc.95, 666- 676. Brede EG, Adis J, Schneider P (2007). What is responsible for the variance in life history traits of a semi aquatic grasshopper (C.aquaticum)? A test of 3 hypotheses. Stud Neo Fauna Env, 6, 1-9. Brede EG, Beebee TJC (2006b) Consistently different levels of genetic variation across the European ranges of two anurans, Bufo bufo and Rana temporaria. Herpetological J., 16, 265-271. Brede EG, Beebee TJC (2006a). Large variations in the ratio of effective breeding and census population sizes between two species of pond breeding anurans. Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 89, 365-372. Brede EG, Beebee TJC (2004). Contrasting population structures in two sympatric anurans: implications for species conservation. Heredity 92, 110-117.