I am Reader in Ecology at the School of Environmental Sciences and the Director of the International Masters in Applied Ecology at the University of East Anglia, UEA. I co-ordinate the Movetech Telemetry project aiming to develop new animal tracking technologies to understand wildlife responses to environmental change. My teaching is research led and I like to involve undergraduate and postgraduate students in my research. Before joining UEA, I was a Post-doctoral researcher at Washington State University studying the movement strategies of butterflies in Oregon, US. Prior to this I was a Postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Leeds and York and examined the influence of climate change at the range boundaries of insect species in the UK. I have a PhD from UEA, a MSc in Applied Maths from the The University of Lisbon and my original BSc training was in Biology with Ecology also at the University of Lisbon. Prior to the PhD, I coordinated an EU LIFE Nature conservation project for a Portuguese Environmental NGO and worked for the Portuguese Environmental Agency as a consultant. I am a conservation ecologist interested in movement ecology, biogeography and ecological responses to global change. My early work identified measures to protect a globally endangered species and by working alongside non-governmental organisations we implemented effective conservation actions. This work was included in the Wildlife comeback in Europe report. At present, I am interested in understanding global patterns of distribution of biodiversity and the drivers and determinants underlying species range limits, at different spatial scales. The outputs and and models can be used to predict the effects of global environmental change and to inform the design of priority areas for conservation. My group is involved in developing and testing new animal tracking technologies aiming to investigate recent changes in animal movement strategies, for example, the establishment of non-migratory populations in previously wholly migratory species. Ultimately we are interested in the identifying the drivers and determinants underlying these recent changes in the migratory behaviour of animals.