A McDevitt

I obtained my BSc (Honours) in Zoology in University College Dublin in 2003. I began my PhD in the same university that same year, using genetics to study the origins of Irish mammals. After completing my PhD in 2008, I undertook a short post-doc in Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland focussing on the origins and hybridisation in Irish deer. I then spent two years in the University of Calgary in Canada, working on the phylogeography and landscape genetics of caribou and elk. I then spent 2011 in the Mammal Research Institute in Poland on the phylogeography and landscape genetics of mustelids and voles. I was then awarded a Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellowship to study the range dynamics, ecological consequences and adaptation of an invasive shrew in Ireland. After completing this fellowship, I spent 2014-2015 as a visiting researcher between the Mammal Research Institute in Poland and the University of Leuven in Belgium working on population genomics of the red fox. I have recently been appointed as lecturer in Global Ecology and Conservation in the University of Salford.