Master by Research (MScRes) student in Biological Sciences at Bangor University, currently investigating the evolution of spitting cobras through phylogenomics.

Graduated in Zoology with Herpetology (BSc) at Bangor University.

• BSc: BSC - Zoology with Herpetology
  2020–2023

Currently investigating the evolutionary history of Cobras (genus Naja) through phylogenomics, with a focus on the evolution of Asian spitting cobras.

BSc thesis on using plasticine models to estimate the predation rates of multiple populations of the Endangered Meadow viper species complex (Vipera ursinii/Vipera graeca).

2024

• PublishedA reliance on human habitats is key to the success of an introduced predatory reptile
  Major, T., Jeffrey, L., Limia Russel, G., Bracegirdle, R., Gandini, A., Morgan, R., Marshall, B. M., Mulley, J. & Wüster, W., 3 Sept 2024, BioRxiv, 29 p.
  Research output: Working paper › Preprint

2023

• PublishedMate today, gone tomorrow: male-on-female cannibalism in Zamenis longissimus (Laurenti, 1768) in North Wales
  Major, T., Bracegirdle, R., Gandini, A., Limia Russel, G., Pozzi, A., Morgan, R., Mulley, J. & Wüster, W., 17 Jan 2023, In: Herpetology Notes. 16, p. 51-54 4 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• PublishedPredation of Vipera ammodytes by the Eastern Montpellier Snake (Malpolon insignitus).
  Gandini, A., 1 Dec 2021, In: Herpetological Bulletin. 158, 1 p., 46.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• XV Congresso Nazionale - Societas Herpetologica Italica (SHI)

  21 Sep 2024

  Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)