PhDs/PDRAs/Visitors

PhD Students

• Cam Milliken, 1st year. “Leveraging Machine Learning to Assess the Impact of Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) on Bumblebee Populations in the UK”
  Supervisors: Eleni Matechou, Christos Efstratiou (Computing), Richard Comont (Bumblebee Conservation Trust)
• Cosmo De Bonis-Campbell, 2nd year. “Deep learning methods for large citizen science data sets”
  Supervisors: Eleni Matechou, Marek Grzes (Computing), Emily Dennis (Butterfly Conservation)
• Leonardo Federici, 2nd year. “Group dynamics, coordination, and performance in human and non-human social animals.”
  Supervisors: Iacopo Iacopini (Northeastern University London), Eleni Matechou
• Lucy Brown, 3rd year. “Modelling human population registers”
  Supervisors: Eleni Matechou, Bruno Santos, Eleonora Mussino (Stockholm), Ruth King (Edinburgh), Blanca Sarzo (Valencia)
• Milly Jones, 4th year. “New statistical models for distance sampling data”
  Supervisors: Diana Cole, Eleni Matechou
• Danielle Hendricksen, 2025. “Statistical models for data on recreational fishing”
  Supervisors: Eleni Matechou, Oscar Rodriguez De Rivera Ortega, Kieran Hyder & David Maxwell (Cefas)
  Currently: Data Officer, Kent County Council (Highways team)
• Ioannis Rotous, 2024. “Bayesian methods for interpretable and scalable modelling of population dynamics”
  Supervisors: Eleni Matechou, Alex Diana, Jim Griffin (UCL)
  Currently: PDRA at UCL
• Fabian Ketwaroo, 2023. “Bayesian hierarchical models for ecological data; estimating population size, spatial and temporal patterns”
  Supervisors: Eleni Matechou
  Currently: PDRA at Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland
• Alex Diana, 2020. “Bayesian non-parametric methods for modelling ecological data and stochastic processes for modelling species interactions”
  Supervisors: Eleni Matechou, Alison Johnson (BTO), Jim Griffin (UCL)
  Currently: Lecturer in Statistics, University of Essex
• Marina Jiménez Muñoz, 2020. “Statistical Methods for the Joint Analysis of Spatial, Sparse or Missing Ecological Data”
  Supervisors: Diana Cole, Eleni Matechou, Stephen Baillie & Rob Robinson (BTO)
  Awards: Silver award, STEM for Britain, 2019
  Currently: Statistical Consultant, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
• Ming Zhou, 2018. “Statistical Development of Ecological Removal Models”
  Supervisors: Rachel McCrea, Eleni Matechou, Diana Cole
  Awards: Honourable mention, Young Biometrician Award, British and Irish Region, IBS, 2019
  Currently: Data Scientist at The Very Group

PDRAs and KTP Associates

• Fabian Ketwaroo, PDRA, May–June 2023
• Alex Diana, KTP Associate, September 2022–September 2023
• Alex Diana, PDRA, March 2020–September 2022

Interns / Visiting Students

• Denise Trombin, 2023. Visiting student from University of Turin, Italy
• Alessandro Mari, 2022. Internship in collaboration with the University of Turin, Italy
• Vasileios Fiotakis, 2021. Internship in collaboration with Wageningen University, Netherlands