Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez

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:

• Commissioning editor for Journal of Animal Ecology
• Associate editor for Ecology Letters and Scientific Reports
• Steering committee member of the Oxford Ageing Hub
• Founder and coordinator of the COMADRE Animal Matrix Database
• Coordinator of the COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database
• Founder of the PADRINO IPM Database
• Founding member of PlantPopNet
• Founding member of INNGE
• Oxford NERC DTP management committee member
• Steering committee member of DRAGNet
• BES grants committee member
• NERC IRF & NSF committee member

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