Background

I am a biodiversity theorist with a particular interest in ecological neutral theory.  I arrived at Imperial College during January 2012 and am grateful to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for funding me in my current position with a postdoctoral research fellowship.  Prior to this I was funded for 3 years with a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).  I was hosted by the University of Leeds but spent 50% of my time abroad at the University of Groningen and the University of Idhao (Moscow,ID). My PhD (2005-2008)  titled ‘Spatially Explicit Neutral Models of Community Assembly’ was carried out at the University of Leeds under the supervision of Stephen Cornell and Bill Kunin.  My undergraduate training (2001-2005) was in mathematics at the University of Warwick and had a strong bias towards scientific computing and life science applications. 

Selected Publications

• Etienne RS, Rosindell J, Prolonging the past counteracts the pull of the present: protracted speciation can explain observed slowdowns in diversification., Syst Biol, 2012, 61, 204-213

• Rosindell J, Hubbell SP, He F, Harmon LJ, Etienne RS, The case for ecological neutral theory., Trends Ecol Evol, 2012, 27, 203-208

• Rosindell J, Hubbell SP, Etienne RS, The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography at age ten., Trends Ecol Evol, 2011, 26, 340-348

• Rosindell J, Phillimore AB, A unified model of island biogeography sheds light on the zone of radiation., Ecol Lett, 2011, 14, 552-560

• Rosindell J, Cornell SJ, Hubbell SP, Etienne RS, Protracted speciation revitalizes the neutral theory of biodiversity, Ecol Lett, 2010, 716-727

• Rosindell J, Cornell SJ, Species-area relationships from a spatially explicit neutral model in an infinite landscape.,Ecol Lett, 2007, 10, 586-595