Dr Natalie Cooper
she/her
Merit Researcher
Summary
My research sits at the interface between macroecology and macroevolution, and aims to understand broad-scale patterns of biodiversity. I use cutting-edge phylogenetic comparative methods, morphological data collected from museum specimens, phylogenies, ecological data, species geographic range maps, fossils and various larger databases, to investigate a variety of questions. Current research in the group spans macroevolution, ecology, conservation and social science, and uses living and extinct taxa including fishes, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. I also critique and develop phylogenetic comparative methods, and am an advocate for EDI, reproducibility and open science.My outreach work includes "The Perfect Specimen" podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6w4ihPqk5_LOTuw-VhlaqEn1CctPqWGB.
Qualifications
Degrees
- PhD, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, 2005 - 2009
- MSc, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, 2004 - 2005
- BSc, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, 2001 - 2004
Academic
- Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2012 - 2015
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, United States, 2010 - 2011
- Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, United States, 2009 - 2010
Highlighted publications
- Guillerme T, Bright JA, Cooney CR, Hughes EC, Varley ZK, Cooper N, Beckerman AP, Thomas GH (2023) Innovation and elaboration on the avian tree of life. Science Advances 9, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adg1641
- Sanders NJ, Cooper N, Davis Rabosky AR, Gibson DJ (2023) Leveraging natural history collections to understand the impacts of global change. Journal of Animal Ecology 92, 232 - 236. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13882
- Cooper N, Bond AL, Davis JL, Portela Miguez R, Tomsett L, Helgen KM (2019) Sex biases in bird and mammal natural history collections. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, 20192025 - 20192025. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2025
- Trueman CN, Jackson AL, Chadwick KS, Coombs EJ, Feyrer LJ, Magozzi S, Sabin RC, Cooper N Combining simulation modeling and stable isotope analyses to reconstruct the last known movements of one of Nature’s giants. PeerJ 7, null - null. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7912
Highlighted publications
- Guillerme T, Bright JA, Cooney CR, Hughes EC, Varley ZK, Cooper N, Beckerman AP, Thomas GH (2023) Innovation and elaboration on the avian tree of life. Science Advances 9, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adg1641
- Sanders NJ, Cooper N, Davis Rabosky AR, Gibson DJ (2023) Leveraging natural history collections to understand the impacts of global change. Journal of Animal Ecology 92, 232 - 236. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13882
- Cooper N, Bond AL, Davis JL, Portela Miguez R, Tomsett L, Helgen KM (2019) Sex biases in bird and mammal natural history collections. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, 20192025 - 20192025. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2025
- Trueman CN, Jackson AL, Chadwick KS, Coombs EJ, Feyrer LJ, Magozzi S, Sabin RC, Cooper N Combining simulation modeling and stable isotope analyses to reconstruct the last known movements of one of Nature’s giants. PeerJ 7, null - null. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7912