Professional summary

Dina obtained a PhD in Statistics from the University of Oslo in 2010. After that, she joined the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling at the University of St Andrews, followed by roles in statistics at the University of Aberdeen and Queen's University Belfast.

Currently, since 2020, Dina has been applying her expertise as a senior statistician at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. With over 19 years of experience as a statistician, Dina has been involved in providing statistical expertise to multidisciplinary teams. Her contributions include designing effective surveys and experiments, conducting data analysis, and developing statistical methodologies for the analysis of experimental data. Dina leads the DEFRA-funded Nightwatch statistical survey design projects and she is currently the lead statistician on multiple UKCEH projects (NERC ChemPop project, DEFRA Abundance Indicator technical development, etc.).

Selected publications

Gaul Willson et al. , (2022), Modelling the distribution of rare invertebrates by correcting class imbalance and spatial bias. Diversity and Distributions, 28, 2171-2186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13619

Sadykov Alexander et al. , (2022), The transfer function method reveals how age‐structured populations respond to environmental fluctuations with serious implications for fisheries management. Population Ecology, 64, 190-204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1438-390X.12124

Carvell Claire et al. , (2022), Establishment and management of wildflower areas for insect pollinators in commercial orchards. Basic and Applied Ecology, 58, 2-14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.11.001

White Hannah J. et al. , (2021), Ecosystem stability at the landscape scale is primarily associated with climatic history. Functional Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13957

Roy D.B. et al. , (2022), Developing technologies for Agri-environment monitoring. https://randd.defra.gov.uk/ProjectDetails?ProjectId=20551

Other Publications

Sadykova, D., Scott, B., De Dominicis, M., Wakelin, S. L., Wolf, J. and Sadykov, A. Ecological costs of climate change on marine predator-prey population distributions by 2050. 2020. Ecology and Evolution 10:1069–1086

https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5973

Sadykova, D., Scott, B., De Dominicis, M., Wakelin, S. L., Sadykov, A. and Wolf, J. Bayesian joint models with INLA exploring marine mobile predator-prey and competitor species habitat overlap. 2017. Ecology and Evolution 7:5212-5226

https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3081