Rob's research group (The SalGo Team) carries out research in the following areas:
- Drivers of life history strategies
- The evolution of and escape from senescence
- Functional trait demography
- Species distributions and habitat suitability
- Life history oddities and gaps of knowledge
- Conservation biology and population forecast
- Comparative demography
- Population modelling
Rob's ultimate goal is to develop an integrative academic research programme bringing together biochemical, anatomic and physiological approaches to examine demographic aspects of an organism' life cycle through a combination angles including field and lab work, as well as ecological modeling and comparative biology.
Selected academic roles:
Honorary affiliations:
- Research guests at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
- Adjunct Professor at the College of Pastoral and Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, China