Jack Brand

I completed my Bachelor of Science Hons (first class) in Neuroscience at the University of New South Wales in Sydney (Australia), before undertaking a PhD (Ecology and Evolution; completed 2023) at Monash University in Melbourne (Australia) with Prof. Bob Wong working on the environmental drivers of animal behaviour.

I am currently a Researcher in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, working within the Aquatic Ecology Research Group, as well as a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, working with the Fish Movement Ecology Group. I am also a Data Editor at Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 

My research investigates how human-driven environmental change alters aquatic wildlife populations, with a strong focus on fish. I integrate field experiments, controlled laboratory studies, historical and long-term datasets, and high-resolution biotelemetry with advanced quantitative and statistical approaches to uncover how different aspects of human-induced environmental change influences individual traits, and how this can scale up to population-level outcomes. Much of my work examines how stressors such as fish stocking and aquatic pollution disrupt natural movement patterns, with consequences for population connectivity, persistence, and survival. 

I currently teach into the graduate-level course: Scientific Writing (PFG0057)