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Éamonn Lenihan is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Natural Sciences at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). He obtained his PhD in Zoology in 2020 from NUIG. His research focuses on the ecology and conservation of the critically endangered European eel (Anguilla anguilla) in hydropower impacted rivers, but he is also interested in the migration dynamics of other diadromous fish species.