With a PhD in Biology from the University of Liverpool, Dr. Schultz has over 75 publications with over 6500 citations. At her time with Applied Biomathematics, Schultz helped construct ecological modeling softwares as well as coauthoring Conservation Biology with RAMAS® EcoLab. Today she is an academic expert member of SMBE and an Assistant Editor of the Royal Society of Open Science journal. She is also a Professor of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation at the University of Manchester studying evolution and how species cope with environmental changes. Her goal in this is to hope to find the key difference that has made humans able to develop large, complex societies.