Adam Hayward

Research Fellow, Moredun Research Institute

Adam began his career as an evolutionary biologist and did a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2011 studying interactions between parasite infection and life-history variation in wild Soay sheep. Adam then did post-doctoral research at the Universities of Sheffield, Edinburgh and Stirling, and got to work on ageing in pre-industrial Finns and Asian elephants in Myanmar, as well as continuing to work on the Soay sheep. In 2018 he joined Moredun as a Research Fellow, where he try and apply my background working with big data to address questions related to sustainable parasite control in sheep. Much of this work uses field trials to investigate the impact of genetics and management on the ability of sheep to defend themselves against infection and remain productive. Adams work involves a lot of statistical analysis and is always keen to get stuck into new datasets, and have also worked on immune responses in goats, liver fluke infection in beef cattle, and gill disease in salmon.