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Best poster award at the 2026 ISBA World Meeting for PhD student of Eleni Matechou

Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science 

15 July 2026

A red tailed bumblebee. © Richard Dowling
A red tailed bumblebee. © Richard Dowling


Congratulations to Cam Milliken, a PhD student supervised by Dr Eleni Matechou, who won a best poster award at the 2026 ISBA World Meeting. The conference was attended by over 800 people and included more than 300 posters.
Cam's poster, available here, presented work on spatio-temporal modelling for POMS (Pollinator Monitoring Scheme) data. Cam's PhD is co-supervised by Dr Christos Efstratiou (University of Kent) and Dr Richard Comont (Bumblebee Conservation Trust), and is funded through the Leverhulme 'Space for Nature' programme at the University of Kent.

People: Eleni MATECHOU

Contact: Eleni Matechou
Email: e.matechou@qmul.ac.uk

Updated by: Kostas Papafitsoros