Background

I am Professor of Zoology in the Department of Ecology & Vertebrate Zoology at the University of Łódź, Poland, and I also work at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic. I am Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vertebrate Biology. From 2026 to 2028 I am Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Science and Marine Environment at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.

I was formerly Reader in Zoology at the University of St Andrews, UK and held lectureships at the University of Leicester, UK and Queen Mary College of the University of London. Before my first lectureship, I held a research fellowship at the University of East Anglia, UK, worked as a fish ecologist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK, served as an aid worker for Voluntary Service Overseas in Bangladesh, and worked for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. I completed a PhD on fish ecology at the University of Aberystwyth, UK and I am the author of over 160 scientific papers and seven books.

My research interests are in fish ecology, evolutionary and behavioural ecology, statistical modelling, and in applying informative Bayesian priors to ecological and evolutionary models. I regularly run free online statistics workshops, and you are welcome to contact me to discuss courses tailored to your specific research group or institute.