Dr Jeremy (jay) Piggott

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of Aquatic Biology in the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Otago. I have previously held research fellowships at the National University of Singapore (Singapore), Kyoto University (Japan), Imperial College London (UK) and Peking University (China). I currently serve as Associate Editor of the journals Limnology and Journal of Applied Ecology, Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), International Advisor to the EU funded MARS project (Managing Aquatic ecosystems and water Resources under multiple Stress), Management Committee of the EU COST Action DNAqua-NET (Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems in Europe), and on the FutureEarth working group on ‘Biodiversity monitoring for ecosystem services’ and of the British Ecological Society working group on ‘Ecological resilience in science & policy’.

Research Interest

My research focuses on several topical themes in fundamental and applied ecology, including the determinants of biodiversity structure and function from genes to ecosystems, the combined influence of multiple anthropogenic stressors on communities and ecosystems, and the management and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the face of global change.