Professor Fiona Mathews
Professor of Environmental Biology (Ecology and Evolution), School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex
Fiona monitors the status of wildlife and research practical solutions to conservation problems. Recent projects include assessing the population trends of British Mammals, researching the hazards posed to bats by wind turbines; working on the negative (and sometimes positive) effects of roads and street-lighting for wildlife; assessing plastic ingestion by wild animals; initiating a sustainable vanilla production project in Ecuador; working on fish-farming and local anti-poaching agreements in Zambia; and developing the MammalMapper phone-app to improve the monitoring of mammals. Fiona is the founding Chair of Mammal Conservation Europe (https://mammals.eu), former Chair of the Mammal Society, Trustee of the Kasanka Trust (UK), and co-founder and Director of Ecotype Genetics Ltd. She also leads the Eurobats Scientific Advisory Committee's Working Group on Wind Energy, which recently had a new resolution adopted by the EU and other member states to monitor and reduce the negative impacts of wind generation on bats.
Fiona's popular science book "Black Ops and Beaver Bombing: Adventures with Britain's Wild Mammals" was published in April 2023.
