I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Ecology at Queen Mary University of London (UK). I have more than 13 years of experience in theoretical and experimental community ecology. My research evaluates the roles of climate warming, foraging behavior, and other organismal traits on the diversity, structure, dynamics of aquatic food webs and ecosystems. I study how omnivory, anti-predator defenses, predator interference and prey heterogeneity alter trophic interactions and contribute to the prevalence of weak interaction strengths in nature. As an active member of multiple international working groups, I have helped to develop a novel theoretical framework for predicting temperature effects on trophic dynamics and stability (Kratina et al. 2012, Ecology, 93:1421-1430; Atwood et al. 2013, Nature Geosci., 6:191-194; Gilbert et al. 2014, Ecol. Lett., 17: 902-914). I have also demonstrated that the impacts of climate warming extend well beyond ecosystem boundaries by influencing cross-ecosystem subsidies (Greig, Kratina et al. 2012, Glob. Change Biol., 18:504–514). Although I mostly study aquatic ecosystems in temperate region, our current projects compare the isotopic niche shifts of predators in temperate versus tropical biomes (UK, Sweden, Croatia, Malaysian Borneo, Brazil). My ultimate goal is to develop a mechanistic understanding of processes that control species diversity and its consequences for ecosystem function and services. I have published a total of 40 papers (h-index 16), with citations > 200/year, 5 papers cited more than 100 times. I also delivered over 55 presentations at conferences, keynote lectures, and invited seminars. I have supervised 1 PDRA, 10 PhD students, 12 MSc students, and 11 UG research students. I have already led 5 PhD students to completion. I am an Associate Editor for Ecology and Evolution, Review Editor for Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Grants Reviewer for French National Research Agency (ANR), Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Czech Science Foundation (CSF). Peer Reviewer for more than 18 journals, including Aquatic Ecology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ecosphere, Functional Ecology, Global Change Biology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of the North American Benthological Society, Oikos. External Examiner for PhD and MSc theses. I am also a member of the London NERC DTP’s Management Board. I am a member of: British Ecological Society (BES), Ecological Society of America (ESA), Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution (CSEE), International Association for Ecology (INTECOL), Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), The Freshwater Biological Association (FBA).