Niamh Eastwood PhD

Niamh Eastwood

School of Biosciences
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice

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Dr Niamh Eastwood is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Biosciences and the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice. Her research aims to understand the impact of environmental changes, such as chemical pollution and climate change, on biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales. She develops new tools using environmental DNA to uncover complex and long-term ecological trends, helping to inform conservation and policy actions.

Qualifications

PhD Biosciences, University 麻豆精选, 2024
MSci Biological Sciences, University 麻豆精选, 2018

Biography

Dr Niamh Eastwood completed her PhD at the University 麻豆精选 where she developed environmental DNA-based tools to understand the impact environmental pressures on freshwater community biodiversity, focusing on lake ecosystems. Following her PhD, she took up the post of Postdoctoral Research Associate on the EU project PARC.

Other activities


Member of Royal Society of Biology

Co-Chair CERJ Events committee

Publications

Eastwood, N., Watson, A., Zhou, J. and Orsini, L. (2025). Unveiling Landscape‐Level Drivers of Freshwater Biodiversity Dynamics. Environmental DNA, 7(1). doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70058

Holden, L., Lee, R.G., Orsini, L., Eastwood, N., Zhou, J. and Čavoški, A. (2024). Biodiversity management challenges: A policy brief. Environmental law review, 26(2). doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/14614529241247361

Eastwood, N., Kissane, S., Campbell, L., Briscoe, A.G., Egeter, B., and Orsini, L. (2024). Single metabarcoding multiplex captures community‐level freshwater biodiversity and beyond. Environmental DNA, 6(1). doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.515

Eastwood, N., Zhou, J., Derelle, R., Abdallah, M.A.E., Stubbings, W.A., Jia, Y., Crawford, S.E., Davidson, T.A., Colbourne, J.K., Creer, S., Bik, H.M., Holler, H. and Orsini, L. (2023). 100 years of anthropogenic impact causes changes in freshwater functional biodiversity. eLife, 12. doi:https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.86576

Chaturvedi, A., Li, X., Dhandapani, V., Marshall, H., Kissane, S., Cuenca Cambronero, M., Asole, G., Calvet, F., Ruiz-Romero, M., Marangio, P., Guigó, R., Rago, D., Mirbahai, L., Eastwood, N., Colbourne, J.K., Zhou, J., Mallon, E.B. and Orsini, L. (2023). The hologenome of Daphnia magna reveals possible DNA methylation and microbiome-mediated evolution of the host genome. Nucleic Acids Research, 51(18). doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad685

Eastwood, N., Stubbings, W.A., Abdallah, M.A.A.-E., Durance, I., Paavola, J., Dallimer, M., Pantel, J.H., Johnson, S., Zhou, J., Hosking, J.S., Brown, J.B., Ullah, S., Krause, S., Hannah, D.M., Crawford, S.E., Widmann, M. and Orsini, L. (2022). The Time Machine framework: monitoring and prediction of biodiversity loss. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 37(2), pp.138–146. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.09.008