Tim Newbold

My research aims to understand how biodiversity is changing in response to recent environmental change, and to predict how biodiversity will change in future. We are also interested in the consequences of biodiversity change for human societies. To address these questions, our work mostly centres around the development of large-scale models of biodiversity and ecosystems.

I completed my undergraduate degree in zoology and my PhD at the University of Nottingham. My PhD focused on the development of species distribution models as a tool for understanding the impacts of climate on biodiversity.

I then completed a post-doctoral position at the World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, developing global models of human impacts on biodiversity. In 2015, I moved to UCL to continue this work, and in 2016 I was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.