PhD students
Sherrie Chambers
Sherrie is working on stable isotopes in Port Jackson sharks to understand migration.
Julianna Kadar
Julianna uses accelerometers to investigate the fine-scale movements of Port Jackson sharks.
Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons
Joni is studying the impacts of food provisioning on the behaviour of smooth stingrays.
Dennis Heinrich
Dennis is working on learning and memory in sharks and its impacts for the cage diving industry.
Nicolette Armansin
Nicolette is using social network analyses to investigate disease transmission in sealions.
Emma Petrolo
Emma is identifying local adaptation and genetic connectivity in Galapogas shark populations.
Nathan Bass
Nathan is studying movement and migrations in Port Jackson sharks in Jervis Bay.
Paolo Panizzon
Paolo is investigating the fitness impacts of laterality and personality on rainbowfish cognition.
Flavia Berlinghieri
Flavia is manipulating hormones shaping laterality, personality and cognition in rainbowfish.
Iestyn Penry-Williams
Iestyn is studying laterality and personality in wild and feral populations of guppies.
Marion Dellinger
Marion is using different morphs of Icelandic Arctic Charr to examine the evolution of spatial cognition.
Amy Tims
Amy is investigating vulnerability to extinction in Australian freshwater fishes using phylogenetics.
Former PhD students
Dr Connor Gervais
Connor investigated physiology of developing PJ sharks response to elevated temperatures.
Dr Penelope Carbia
Penelope worked on spatial learning with gobies.
Dr Catarina Vila Pouca
Catarina investigated shark learning abilities.
Dr Lois Olton
Lois examined the impacts of stormwater contaminents on rainbowfish and shrimp.
Dr Erin Kydd
Erin worked on training for hatchery-reared fish.
Dr Gemma White
Gemma investigated spatial learning in intertidal gobies.
Dr Anne-Laurence Bibost
Anne worked on laterality in rainbowfish.
Dr David Wells
David studied brush turkey mating systems.
Dr Joanna Wiszniewski
Jo worked on social networks in dolphins.