Anna received her BSc (Hons) in zoology from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her dissertation focused on identifying the evolutionary drivers of local enhancement behaviour using computational methods. Anna then used her computational experience to contribute to several interdisciplinary research projects, including identifying evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic traits in prey populations, and quantifying the consequences of choosing specific risk thresholds beyond which to perform cancer biopsies.

​Anna has also become involved in conservation research through fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon and in Liwonde National Park, Malawi, and through an exchange at James Cook University, Australia. For her PhD, Anna is now interested in testing the applicability of Lima and Dill’s (1990) predation risk equation to carnivore depredation of livestock and Frid and Dill’s (2002) risk disturbance hypothesis to systems in which large mammals are vulnerable to subsistence poaching pressure.