Zoe joined Forest Research in October 2024 after completing her PhD and a short postdoctoral research position at the University of Reading. Her PhD explored microbial community dynamics in communal sink drains, using metabarcoding and other molecular approaches to investigate community stability, resilience, and responses to chemical interventions in built environments. She subsequently applied these molecular approaches to investigating the diet of carabid beetles, expanding her research experience beyond microbial ecology.

Zoe’s research interests focus on molecular ecology and the applications of environmental DNA for biodiversity and environmental monitoring.