Justin Ephraim Isip, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher · Biodiversity Futures Lab · The Natural History Museum · London, UK
Research interests: Global biodiversity change · macroecology · biodiversity modelling · entomology · collections based museum research

About

I'm Justin, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Biodiversity Futures Lab at the Natural History Museum in London working on the NERC-funded GLiTRS project. I recently completed my PHD at the Natural History Museum and the Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (CBER) at UCL supervised by Professor Andy Purvis and Professor Tim Newbold. My PhD research used the PREDICTS database to understand how land-use change and intensification reorganise and restructure insect communities around the world. Outside of research, I'm also passionate about making ecology a more diverse and inclusive field. I sit on the committee of the REED Network under the British Ecological Society working to develop greater cross-pollination between EDI networks and initiatives both within and outside of academia.

Selected publications

A multi-threat meta-analytic database for understanding insect biodiversity change
Millard, J., Skinner, G., Bladon, A. J., Cooke, R., Outhwaite, C. L., Rodger, J. G., Barnes, L. A., Isip, J. E., Keum, J., Raw, C., Wenban-Smith, E., Dicks, L. V., Hui, C., Jones, J. I., Woodcock, B., Isaac, N. J., & Purvis, A. · Diversity and Distributions · 2025
Clade-wide variation in bite-force performance is determined primarily by size, not ecology
Justin E. Isip, MEH. Jones, N. Cooper · Proceedings of the Royal Society B · 2022