Mark Elgar is a Professor in the School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne.  After completing a PhD at the University of Cambridge, he held an SERC post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford and a QEII Fellowship at the University of New South Wales. He joined the University of Melbourne in 1991, and has held visiting appointments at the Christensen Research Centre (Madang, Papua New Guinea), the Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (Paris, France), and the Melbourne Business School (Melbourne, Australia). His research is in the field of evolutionary ecology, in which he combines field and laboratory experiments with inter-specific comparative analyses to understand how behaviour, life-histories and morphology are shaped by natural and sexual selection. Current research is focussed on chemical communication, including understanding the diversity of insect antennal morphology; female signalling strategies; chemical signal attenuation; and the impact of air pollution of odour detection. He was President of the Australasian Evolution Society, Councillor for the International Society for Behavioural Ecology, and has served twice as a member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council. He has held several editorial appointments, including Editor-in-Chief of Behavioural Ecology, and is currently Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.