Ariadne completed a Master’s degree in Conservation Biology at the University of Kent and a PhD in Zoology at the University of Toronto. She became involved with amphibian conservation assessments as a coordinator and assessor in the Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA); she subsequently coordinated an amphibian research and conservation project in the tropical Andes, worked as Amphibian Red List Authority (RLA) Coordinator overseeing the maintenance and curation of the amphibian database on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, acted as Director of Conservation for the International Conservation Fund of Canada, and as as Interim Executive Director for the Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA). She is currently Co-Chair of the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group.

I am a professor at Nanjing Forestry University, and my principal research interest is behavioural ecology and wildlife conservation. My original focus is on understanding the reasons behind the amphibian decline, the links with their behavioural ecology, and their conservation through research. I am now however shifting towards the breeding behaviour and conservation of species in general, in East Asia. My primary experience was with treefrogs in Korea, until I started working in China in September 2019. I now wish to address broader questions aimed at the conservation of multi-species populations over large landscapes, including multiple types of approaches and analytical tools.