Dominic was appointed Editor in Chief of IBIS in 2017. He currently works as Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Associate Lecturer with The Open University. His PhD at the University of Edinburgh was on Barn Owls in south-west Scotland and his current research focuses on cold adaptation and physiological ecology of a range of birds (from passerines to penguins), as well as several mammal species. He is an experienced field biologist having previously worked for the National Trust for Scotland at St Abb’s Head National Nature Reserve and with the British Antarctic Survey on Bird Island (South Georgia). Currently, Dominic is based at the University of Glasgow’s field station: the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE) on Loch Lomondside.