Henry Brink
Henry, who is Danish-Indonesian, grew up in Indonesia, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Sri Lanka.  Henry is a PhD student at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent. He has worked in the Udzungwa and Usambara Mountains of Tanzania for two years where he carried out biodiversity surveys. He has also worked for a year on the Kalahari Meerkat Project before joining the Serengeti Lion Project in June of 2003. Henry spent three years working on the Serengeti Lion Project.

 
Kirsten Skinner
Kirsten, originally from Essex in the United Kingdom, studied Zoology at Leeds University. Her interest in conservation started when she participated in biodiversity surveys in the Udzungwa Mountains and Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. She completed her MSc in Biodiversity and Conservation and went to South Africa to work on yellow mongoose behaviour near Cape Town. Kirsten spent a year working on the Kalahari Meerkat Project before she started working for the Serengeti Lion Project in December 2003.

Henry and Kirsten began the Selous Lion Project in June 2006. Since then they have set up a base in the Matambwe sector of Selous Game Reserve and begun monitoring the lions there, and visited the Msolwa and Kingupira sectors.

Supervisors

Prof Nigel Leader-Williams   

Prof Craig Packer    

Dr Bob Smith