Dr. Tom Bruce is a quantitative wildlife ecologist studying species’ responses to environmental change. His research focuses on quantifying population changes over time, across disturbance gradients, and species interactions. Before his PhD, he worked with the Zoological Society of London, monitoring mammal communities with a focus on forest antelopes, forest elephants and great apes in Cameroon. He completed his PhD at James Cook University, Australia, in 2022, where he revealed the widespread but highly cryptic extent of feral cats penetrating Australia’s rainforests.

In 2022, Tom became the lead postdoc for the Wildlife Observatory of Australia (WildObs), a national camera trap network at the University of Queensland. He joined the Biodiversity & Sustainability Research Group in 2024, now focusing on restoring native wildlife communities and using evidence-based methods to improve interventions, reintroduction outcomes, and restructuring of natural communities and ecosystems in Saudi Arabia.