ImperialCollegeLondon · davidorme · Jun 19, 2025 · Jan 21, 2025 · Jan 21, 2025 · Jan 23, 2025
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -31,13 +31,9 @@ The research is based at Imperial College London:
 
 ## Project Team
 
-* Professor Robert Ewers
-* Olivia Daniel
-* Dr. Jaideep Joshi
-* Dr. David Orme
-* Dr. Vivienne Groner
-* Dr. Jacob Cook
-* Dr. Taran Rallings
+The Virtual Ecosystem is being developed by a international team of researchers lead by
+Professor Robert Ewers (Imperial College London). For more details, please see the [team
+page](https://virtual-ecosystem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/project_team.html) on our website.
 
 The research team are supported by the Imperial College London
 [Research Software

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@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+img.team-photo {
+    float: left;
+    width: 60px;
+    padding-right: 10px
+}
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diff --git a/docs/source/_static/images/people/rob_ewers.png b/docs/source/_static/images/people/rob_ewers.png
diff --git a/docs/source/_static/images/people/sally_matson.png b/docs/source/_static/images/people/sally_matson.png
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diff --git a/docs/source/_toc.yaml b/docs/source/_toc.yaml
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ subtrees:
     maxdepth: 0
     caption: The Virtual Ecosystem
     entries:
+      - file: project_team
+        title: The Project Team
       - file: virtual_ecosystem/theory/theory
         title: Theory
         entries:

diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
 """
 
+import datetime
 import sys
 import warnings
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
@@ -48,12 +49,11 @@
 
 
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
+# Ideally the copyright would have a link to the team page, but neither an RST link, nor
+# an HTML <a> link works - they just get rendered as is.
 
 project = "Virtual Ecosystem"
-copyright = (
-    "2022, Rob Ewers, David Orme, Olivia Daniels, Jacob Cook, "
-    "Jaideep Joshi, Taran Rallings, Vivienne Groner"
-)
+copyright = f"{datetime.date.today().year}, The Virtual Ecosystem project team"
 author = (
     "Rob Ewers, David Orme, Olivia Daniels, Jacob Cook, Jaideep Joshi, "
     "Taran Rallings, Vivienne Groner"
@@ -239,6 +239,11 @@ class MyReferenceStyle(AuthorYearReferenceStyle):
 # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
 html_static_path = ["_static"]
 
+# These paths are relative to html_static_path
+html_css_files = [
+    "css/custom.css",
+]
+
 html_sidebars = {
     "**": ["logo-text.html", "globaltoc.html", "localtoc.html", "searchbox.html"]
 }

diff --git a/docs/source/index.md b/docs/source/index.md
@@ -73,14 +73,10 @@ The research is based at [Imperial College London](https://imperial.ac.uk):
 
 :::{grid-item-card} Project Team
 
-- Professor Robert Ewers
-- Olivia Daniel
-- Dr. Jaideep Joshi
-- Dr. David Orme
-- Dr. Vivienne Groner
-- Dr. Jacob Cook
-- Dr. Taran Rallings
-- Professor Priyanga Amarasekare
+The project team is an international group of research scientists and software
+developers, lead by [Professor Robert Ewers](https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.ewers)
+(Imperial College London). For more details, please see our [team
+page](project_team.md).
 
 The research team are supported by the Imperial College London
 [Research Software Engineering](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/ict/self-service/research-support/rcs/service-offering/research-software-engineering/)

diff --git a/docs/source/project_team.md b/docs/source/project_team.md
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+---
+
+# Project Team
+
+<!-- markdownlint-disable MD034 -->
+<!-- The :link: tag requires bare URLs and markdownlint autowraps them in <>
+unless this rule is disabled. Do not merge these comments - apparently markdownlint is
+fussy about the formatting within the disable comment.
+-->
+
+## Project leadership
+
+::::{grid} 1 1 2 2
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Professor Robert Ewers
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.ewers
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/rob_ewers.png
+:alt: Professor Rob Ewers
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Rob is a data scientist, specialising in biodiversity and whole-system ecology. He is
+the project lead for the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) Project in Borneo
+and principal investigator for the Virtual Ecosystem project. Rob is based at the
+Silwood Park campus of Imperial Collge London.
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Olivia Daniel
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: project_team.html
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/olivia_daniel.png
+:alt: Olivia Daniel
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Olivia is the Project Manager and Administrator for the Virtual Ecosystem project. She
+is a conservation scientist and is based at the Silwood Park campus of Imperial Collge
+London.
+
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Anna Rallings
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: project_team.html
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/anna_rallings.png
+:alt: Anna Rallings
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Anna is an environmental scientist with a focus on landscape management and applied
+ecology. She supports the data science team in development of model parameterization.
+Anna is based at the Silwood Park Campus of Imperial College London.
+:::
+
+::::
+
+## Code development and model science
+
+::::{grid} 1 1 2 2
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Dr. Jaideep Joshi
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: project_team.html
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/jaideep_joshi.png
+:alt: Dr. Jaideep Joshi
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Jaideep's current research focuses on developing eco-evolutionary vegetation models to
+understand the role of biodiversity and adaptation in forest responses to climate
+change. He is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Climate Studies at IIT Bombay.
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Dr. David Orme
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/d.orme
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/david_orme.jpeg
+:alt: Dr. David Orme
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+David is a data scientist with interests in macroecology, macroevolution and landscape
+ecology. He is one of the programmers for the Virtual Ecosystem, with particular focus
+on the model core and the plants science model. He is based at the Silwood Park Campus
+at Imperial College London.
+
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Dr. Vivienne Groner
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/v.groner
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/vivienne_groner.jpg
+:alt: Dr. Vivienne Groner
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Vivienne is an Earth system scientist with focus on the interaction between climate
+change and biodiversity. She is one of the programmers for the Virtual Ecosystem, with
+particular focus on the abiotic and hydrology science model. Vivienne is based at the
+Silwood Park Campus at Imperial College London.
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Dr. Jacob Cook
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: project_team.html
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/jacob_cook.jpg
+:alt: Dr. Jacob Cook
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Jacob is a microbial ecologist whose work focuses on developing improved representations
+of microbial communities in ecological models. He is one of the programmers for the
+Virtual Ecosystem, with a particular focus on the soil and litter science models. He is
+based at the Silwood Park Campus at Imperial College London.
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Dr. Taran Rallings
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: project_team.html
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/taran_rallings.jpg
+:alt: Dr. Taran Rallings
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Taran is a food-web ecologist with a focus on animal communities and paleoecology. He is
+one of the programmers for the Virtual Ecosystem, with a particular focus on the animal
+model and trophic interactions. Taran is based at the Silwood Park Campus of Imperial
+College London.
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Professor Priyanga Amarasekare
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: project_team.html
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/priyanga_amarasekare.png
+:alt: Professor Priyanga Amarasekare
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Priyanga's research focuses on the role of abiotic environmental variation and biotic
+interactions on ecological and evolutionary dynamics, using a combination of
+observation, experimentation and mathematical modelling. Priyanga is a Professor in the
+Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA.
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Sally Matson
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/sally_matson.png
+:alt: Sally Matson
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Sally is a software engineer with an academic background that includes climate science
+and climate change. As a programmer working on the Virtual Ecosystem, she contributes to
+both the core structure and science models.
+:::
+
+::::
+
+## Model parameterisation and data science
+
+::::{grid} 1 1 2 2
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Dr. Siti Nor Baizurah Abdul Malik
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: project_team.html
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/sitinorbaizurah.png
+:alt: Dr. Siti Nor Baizurah Abdul Malik
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Baizurah is a herpetologist focusing on life history, animal ecology, taxonomy and
+wildlife conservation in Borneo. She is one of the data scientists focusing on animal
+model for the Virtual Ecosystem. She is based at SEARRP, Sabah (Malaysia).
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Dr. Lelavathy Samikan Mazilamani
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: project_team.html
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/lelavathy.jpg
+:alt: Dr. Lelavathy Samikan Mazilamani
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Lela is a hydrologist with a particular focus on the hydrological processes and water
+quality in tropical ecosystems, especially in Southeast Asia. As one of the data
+scientists for the Virtual Ecosystem, Lela contributes to the abiotic model. Lela is
+currently based at SEARRP in Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia).
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Dr. Hao Ran Lai
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: https://hrlai.netlify.app/
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/hao_ran_lai.jpg
+:alt: Dr. Hao Ran Lai
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Hao Ran is a (mostly plant) community ecologist who works on forest dynamics, functional
+traits and statistical modelling. He helps with the soil models of Virtual Ecosystem and
+is currently based in Aotearoa New Zealand.
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Dr. Nicholas Wei Cheng Tan
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: project_team.html
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/nick_tan.jpg
+:alt: Dr. Nicholas Wei Cheng Tan
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Nicholas is an animal ecologist with interests in phenotypic evolution and the effects
+of climate and land use change on biodiversity. He is one of the data scientists for the
+Virtual Ecosystem, with a focus on the animal model. Nicholas is currently based in
+Johannesburg, South Africa.
+:::
+
+:::{grid-item-card} Dr. Arne Scheire
+:margin: 2 2 0 0
+:link: project_team.html
+
+```{image} _static/images/people/arne_scheire.jpg
+:alt: Arne Scheire
+:class: team-photo
+```
+
+Arne is a plant ecologist with an interest in the functioning, conservation and
+management of tropical forests, particularly in Southeast Asia. He is one of the data
+scientists for the Virtual Ecosystem, focusing on the plant model. Arne is based at
+SEARRP in Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia).
+:::
+
+::::