CV

Education

• DSc Fish Evolution, University of Łódź, 2019
• PhD Fish Behaviour, University of Aberystwyth, 1990-1993
• MSc Fisheries Biology, University of Plymouth, 1989
• BSc Marine Biology, University of Plymouth, 1985-1988

Employment

• Professor of Zoology, University of Łódź, Poland (2019-present)
• Reader in Zoology, University of St Andrews, UK (2009-2019)
• Lecturer in Zoology, University of Leicester, UK (2004-2009)
• Lecturer in Aquatic Biology, Queen Mary College, London, UK (1998-2004)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of East Anglia, UK (1995-1998)
• Assistant Professor, Khulna University, Bangladesh (1993-1995)
• Scientific Officer, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK (1989-1990)

Expertise

• Fish biology, ecology and evolution
• Animal behaviour
• Evolutionary ecology
• Experimental design and statistical modelling
• Bayesian inference

Research

• My research explores the diversity of fish mating systems, brood-parasite coevolution, and fish ecology
• I have published 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 6 books (h-index 52 with >9,000 citations)
• Supervised 18 PhD students
• Supported 14 post-doctoral researchers
• Received 18 research grants totalling €1.5 million
• Presented 7 plenary and keynote lectures and >60 invited seminars and conference talks
• Organiser/co-organiser of 7 international conferences

Teaching

• Taught 26 different modules at six universities at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Subjects include ecology, zoology, evolutionary biology, experimental design and statistics
• Completed 18 courses in academic practice
• Undertaken 15 external courses in advanced statistics
• Regularly run external statistics workshops

Service and leadership

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Vertebrate Biology
• Assistant Editor, Journal of Fish Biology
• Society Secretary, Freshwater Group of the Linnaean Society of London
• PhD examiner at Universities of Sheffield, Hull, Leicester, Nottingham, Aberystwyth, Padova
• Fisheries consultant for the UK Department for International Development, Government of Sri Lanka, Asian Development Bank, Food & Agriculture Organisation, and United Nations Development Programme
• Grant reviewing for research Councils in the UK (NERC, BBSRC), NC3Rs, Leverhulme Trust, Commonwealth Scholarships Commission; Czech Republic (Czech Grant Agency), Austria (FWF), Poland (NCN), and USA (NSF)
• Curator, Bell-Pettigrew Museum of Natural History, University of St Andrews, UK