Bio:

I am a postdoctoral research associate within the Deep Time Ecology research group in Zoology at the University of Cambridge, and am funded through the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe. I construct ecological and evolutionary models in order to understand the causes and consequences of animal origins in the Ediacaran, with a particular focus on the relationship between Ediacaran organisms and their environment.

Selected publications:

Furness, E.N., & Mitchell, E.G. (2025). Photosynthetic fractionation of carbon: A biological driver for the Neoproterozoic Shuram carbon isotope excursion. Precambrian Research.

Furness, E.N., Garwood, R.J., & Sutton, M.D. (2023). REvoSim v3: a fast evolutionary simulation tool with ecological processes. Journal of Open Source Software.

Furness, E.N., Saupe, E.E., Garwood, R.J., Mannion, P.D., & Sutton, M.D. (2023). The jigsaw model: a biogeographic model that partitions habitat heterogeneity from area. Frontiers in Biogeography.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OHO4CGYAAAAJ

ORCid: 0000-0001-7917-2304