Alice is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong and formerly a Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences following from positions in Thailand, the CSIRO in Canberra, and a PhD at the University of Bristol. She is the author of over 200 papers and was in the top 2% most cited researchers in Ecology globally in 2023. She is President of INTECOL, Chief editor of Climate Change Ecology, on various task forces for the UN, working groups for a number of NGOs and IGOs, and a data ambassador for GBIF.