Dr Andrea Ross-Gillespie

Andrea completed her BSc (Applied Maths and Physics) and BSc hons (Applied Maths) at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, after which she moved to the Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group, UCT, to do her Masters, which involved population assessments of the Southern Hemisphere humpback whale and the East Coast rock lobster. She completed her PhD with MARAM in early 2016, which aimed to model cannibalism and predation in the Cape hake resource. Up to 2020 she continued various marine assessment work as a postdoctoral fellow, and now continues this work as a post-doctoral researcher. Her primary focus is hake, penguins and right whales and she helps out with other stocks as needed. She has been living and working remotely in Hilton, KZN, since 2014.