About the talk

Effective conservation requires accurate population models that allow us to understand, predict, and respond to the dynamics of natural populations. Despite wide acceptance of the concept of population regulation via density-dependent processes, most structured population models are density-independent. Here, I present both recent theoretical work on how density dependence impacts demographic resilience and a novel approach to project density-dependent population recovery for effective conservation. 

About the speaker

Chrissy is a Marie Curie fellow at Oxford University, visiting EBD for a secondment with Maria Paniw. Chrissy’s academic background is varied, including a B.S. in environmental engineering, a PhD in biological oceanography, and research experiences including field studies of larval marine fish, fisheries modelling, mathematical/theoretical ecology, and population ecology. In January 2026, she will start a tenure-track faculty position at Old Dominion University in the USA, where she will teach and research in quantitative biology and fish ecology.