I was a London NERC DTP student doing my PhD at the University College London, in partnership with the Zoological Society of London and the University of Helsinki. My research aims were to overcome sampling biases in the IUCN Red List by empirically investigating how to derive the best possible sampling regime to allow Red List assessments to reflect extinction risk patterns in megadiverse taxa. Specifically assessing the applicability of the Sampled Red List Index to megadiverse taxa with limited data availability, such as arachnids. To achieve this I was using data from a number of completely assessed species groups, systematic bibliographic review (data mining), predictive modelling, simulations through agent-based modelling and with deep learning. (Research Gate – Google Scholar)