Alice Catherine Hughes
Alice Catherine Hughes is associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, and editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Climate Change Ecology journal. She is known for her research on biodiversity, including the effect of environmental change on some species, particularly bats, and the threat to many species from the wildlife trade.
Early life and education
Alice Hughes spent some of her childhood in Norfolk, observing birds with her mother. In 2004 she gained a higher diploma in animal behaviour from the University of Southampton. Subsequently, she studied zoology at the University of Bristol, from where she graduated in 2007, and completed her PhD four years later.Career
In 2011 Hughes moved to Thailand, where she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Prince of Songkla University. The following year she gained a fellowship with the CSIRO in Canberra, Australia. Towards the end of 2013, she took up an appointment as assistant professor at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, to research biodiversity, including the effect of environmental change on some species, particularly bats. She later wrote on the threats of the trade in wildlife, including the protection of bats in the Western Ghats, India.In 2021 Hughes became associate professor of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong. She became editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Climate Change Ecology journal in 2023.