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Timothy Foster is a Research Fellow at the School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, with a background in Biological Sciences. He has a long-standing interest in ecology and evolution, particularly in the interactions and processes of biological communities that lead to observable phenomena in nature. His research focuses on using computational modeling approaches to understand biological systems. Dr. Foster employed individual-based modeling during his PhD to analyze the gut microbiome and utilizes system dynamics modeling to investigate the recovery of lake ecosystems from eutrophication. His current work in the RESTORE project aims to deepen understanding of how lake ecosystems recover from collapse, typically caused by eutrophication, emphasizing the use of system dynamics modeling to explore hysteresis and feedback loops that impact recovery processes, while predicting the quickest and most likely recovery pathways for individual lakes.