Category: People

Eunice Tan

Eunice is a former PhD student, and is now an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. Her group currently focuses on the ecology of arthropods in Southeast Asian forests, with a focus on the evolutionary ecology of both static and movement visual signals….

Patricia Henríquez-Piskulich

Patricia Henríquez-Piskulich completed her MSc at Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, and is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, supervised by Devi Stuart-Fox and me. She is exploring the factors influencing variation in the colour patterns of bees,…

Devi Stuart-Fox

Devi Stuart-Fox is a Professor and colleague at the University of Melbourne, who engages in truly multi-disciplinary research about the evolutionary significance and underlying mechanisms of colour patterns in animals, now mostly terrestrial invertebrates. We co-Chaired the BioInspiration Halmark Research Initiative, funded by the University…

Kathryn McNamara

Kathryn is a former PhD student and has now returned to the University of Melbourne as a Research Fellow. Her research focuses on the role of sexual selection in shaping insect mating strategies, especially of moths. We collaborate on identifying the factors that have an…

Dong Zhang

Dong Zhang is a Professor in the School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University (China). He is a leading expert in the systematics and phylogeny of flies, with a particular interest in the diversity of dipteran antennal morphology. We collaborate on projects investigating…

Naomi Pierce

Naomi Pierce is a Professor at Harvard University, and a world expert on the biology of lycaenid butterflies and other insect symbioses. We have collaborated from time to time (since 1981) on her research on the Australian lycaenid butterfly Jalmenus evagoras.

Yonghong Xiao

Yonghong Xiao is a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Jinggangshan University, located in the city of Ji’an (China). Her research investigates the reproductive behaviour of terrestrial invertebrates, including spiders and moths. We collaborate on projects investigating the evolutionary significance of sexual catalepsy in…

Richard O’Hair

Richard is Professor and Head of the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. Research in his group focuses on the use of advanced MS techniques and molecular modelling methods to explore contemporary problems in chemistry. His group is particularly interested in understanding the…

Genting Liu

Genting graduated from the Beijing Forestry University and is currently a PhD student supervised by Qike and Mark. Genting is investigating the impact of particulate matter (derived from both industry and bush fires) on the capacity of insects to detect volatile odours. He used Y-maze…

Qike Wang

Qike Wang completed his MSc at Beijing Forestry University, and his PhD at the University of Melbourne, where he currently a postdoctoral research fellow funded by the ARC. He has broad broad interests around insect communication, including the role of cuticular compounds for nestmate recognition…