PhD students
Olivia (Liv) Spiliopoulos
Liv is working on enhancing welfare in aquaculture-reared oyster crackers (Trachinotous anak).
Annabell Klinke
Annabell is studying how the loss of coral reef complexity and warming will affect cognition in coral reef fish
Former PhD students
Dr Nathan Bass
Nathan wass studying movement and migrations in Port Jackson sharks in Jervis Bay.
Dr Paolo Panizzon
Paolo was investigating the fitness impacts of laterality and personality on rainbowfish cognition.
Dr Flavia Berlinghieri
Flavia was manipulating hormones shaping laterality, personality and cognition in rainbowfish.
Dr Julianna Kadar
Julianna used accelerometers to investigate the fine-scale movements of Port Jackson sharks.
Dr Iestyn Penry-Williams
Iestyn studyied laterality and personality in wild and feral populations of guppies.
Dr Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons
Joni studyied the impacts of food provisioning on the behaviour of smooth stingrays.
Dr Amy Tims
Amy investigated vulnerability to extinction in Australian freshwater fishes using phylogenetics.
Dr Dennis Heinrich
Dennis worked on learning and memory in sharks and its impacts for the cage diving industry.
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.