Darren Evans is Professor of Ecology and Conservation at Newcastle University, UK, where he is Head of the Ecology Group and leader of the Network Ecology Group. He combines advances in ecological network theory with DNA/RNA-metabarcoding and AI to examine the impacts of environmental change on species-interactions and ecosystem functioning. He is currently studying the assembly, resilience and restoration of complex networks that include socio-economic dynamics, with research projects in South America, Indonesia, Tanzania and across the EU. He holds two UK Government appointments and sits of Defra’s Biodiversity Expert Committee and Forest Research’s Expert Committee on Forest Science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and Senior Editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology.
