Andy Dobson

Dr ANDY DOBSON is a biologist whose work has encompassed field ecology, vector-borne disease, and conservation. Having studied at Durham University and the University of Nottingham, he took up his first research post in the University of Oxford’s oology Department in 2008. Most recently, he worked in the Conservation Science Group at the University of Edinburgh, applying mathematical models to anti-poaching efforts in protected areas. He left academia in 2019 to become a freelance science writer but remains a Visiting Academic at Edinburgh.