Background

I am Reader in Statistics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London SMS.

My research expertise is in the area of Statistical Ecology, and in particular developing new statistical models and associated software for monitoring migration and phenological patterns of populations, for citizen science and related data, and for monitoring biodiversity using DNA-based survey data. I am also interested in the applications of Bayesian methods, and more specifically of Bayesian nonparametric methods, in ecology.

I joined SMS in 2025 from the University of Kent, where I was Lecturer (2014-2020), then Senior Lecturer (2020-2023) and then Reader (2023-2025) in Statistics.

During 2011-2014 I was working at the University of Oxford as a Departmental Lecturer at the Department of Statistics and as a Stipendiary Lecturer at St Peters College.

My first post-doctoral job, during 2010-2011, was at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand where I was employed as a Research and Teaching Fellow.

My PhD, completed in 2010, was a joint project between the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany and the University of Kent.

I hold an MSc in Statistics with Applications in Medicine from the University of Southampton and a BSc in Statistics from Athens University of Economics and Business.