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Trinity Sandra Ndlovu (nee) Senda is as Agroecosystem ecologist at the James Hutton Institute (JHI). She attained her PhD thesis from the University of Nairobi in Kenya in Management of Agroecosystems and the Environment. Her PhD work focused on the socio-ecological implications of communal land rights formalization in pastoral settings.
Dr David Boldrin (BSc in Biology; MSc in Environmental biology; PhD in Civil Engineering) is a researcher in Plant Soil Mechanisms at The James Hutton Institute and a research fellow in the EPSRC-funded project “Climate Adaptation Control Technologies for Urban Spaces” at the University of Dundee.
Current role
Stuart is an applied plant ecologist at the Institute focusing on how land-use management and restoration influences ecosystem functioning, particularly
I completed my PhD in Microbiology at the University of Pretoria (UP, South Africa); my research focus is the legume-rhizobium
Thomas (Tom) is an ecologist specialising in the study of carbon cycling in upland and far northern ecosytems. Much of
Maddy is a soil microbial ecologist and biogeochemist in the Plant-Soil Interactions (PSI) research group within Ecological Sciences, James Hutton
Dimitris was awarded a Bsc in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the National University of Technology in Athens (Greece) before
Debbie is a research assistant in the Ecological Sciences group. Her background is in environmental conservation. She completed a BSc
Lucinda works in the Ecological Sciences department as a molecular microbiologist. Lucinda joined the Institute in 2007 as a research assistant in the Molecular Microbiology lab. She initially worked in the Soils group preparing and analysing soil DNA for the National Soils Inventory of Scotland (NSIS), and then moved to the Ecological Sciences department in 2015.
