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Ecology and Conservation

Leadership Team

Name Position Bio Email
Professor Ben Raymond Head of Department I am proud to be head of this amazing Department, and look forward to welcoming you should you visit us. HoD-CEC-Cornwall@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Hodge Deputy Head of Department I lead on widening participation activities within the department and provide pastoral support to International Students. s.j.hodge@exeter.ac.uk
Lisa Morgan Department Manager My role is to foster collaboration between academic colleagues and professional service departments. l.j.morgan@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Chris Laing Director of Education & Student Experience I have been an E&S lecturer at Exeter since 2013, and Director of Education and Student Experience since 2022. c.g.laing@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Young Co-Director of Research & Impact I use long-term field studies of wild social vertebrates and laboratory studies of social microbes to advance our understand of sociality and ageing A.J.Young@exeter.ac.uk
Professor Chris Bass Co-Director of Research & Impact I use transcriptomics, genomics and post-genomic functional approaches to understand adaptive evolution in insects. C.Bass@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Xiaoya Ma Director of Global Engagement I am a Senior Lecturer studying the origin and early evolution of animal life, especially the major branching events. X.Ma2@exeter.ac.uk 
Professor Martin Stevens Director of Business & Engagement I am a Professor of Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology and Director of Business, Engagement, and Innovation for the Centre for Ecology and Conservation. martin.stevens@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Ben Longdon Director of Early Career Researchers I work on the evolutionary ecology of host-pathogen interactions, typically using insects and their viruses to ask fundamental questions about pathogen emergence. B.Longdon2@exeter.ac.uk 
Dr Mario Recker Director of Postgraduate Research I apply computational approaches to investigate host-pathogen interaction that underlie the evolution and ecology of infectious diseases. M.Recker@exeter.ac.uk 
Dr Andy Pye Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion I am passionate about creating an inclusive and supportive environment for staff and students. I am also a Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE. a.j.pye@exeter.ac.uk
Dr MD Sharma Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion I am also Co-Chair of the institutional Race Equality Group. m.d.sharma@exeter.ac.uk