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Curriculum

Research interests

Behavioural ecology, evolution, functional traits, visual signals, animal colour, sexual cannibalism, spiders, insects.

Current positions

  • since 2024

    Head of the Centre for Taxonomy and Morphology (ztm) at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Bonn & Hamburg;
    Deputy Director General LIB Hamburg

  • since 2024

    Professor (W3) of Systematic Zoology at the University of Hamburg

Reviews, consultancy work, board roles and memberships

  • since 2023: European Research Council LS8 Evaluation Panel member
  • 2024–2026: President, International Society for Behavioral Ecology
  • 2022–2024: President-Elect, International Society for Behavioral Ecology
  • since 2009: Editor, Ethology
  • 2019–2022: Editor, Behavioral Ecology
  • 2011–2016: Editorial Board, Scientific Report
  • 2014–2017: Editorial Board, Animal Behaviour

Academic qualifications

  • 1995

    Doctorate Degree (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Vienna, Austria (Biology)

  • 1994

    Masters Degree (Mag. rer. nat.) at the University of Vienna, Austria (Biology)

  • 1991

    B.Sc. at the University of New South Wales, Australia (First Class Honours)

  • 1989

    B.Sc. at the University of Sydney, Australia

Careers

  • since 2024

    Head of the Centre for Taxonomy and Morphology (ztm) at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Bonn & Hamburg;

    Deputy Director General LIB Hamburg

  • since 2024

    Professor (W3) of Systematic Zoology at the University of Hamburg

  • 2022–2024

    Dean of Students, Macquarie University, Australia

  • 2020–2022

    Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, Macquarie University, Australia

  • 2016–2020

    Chair of Academic Senate, Macquarie University, Australia

  • 2015–2016

    Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia

  • 2012–2015

    Head of Department, Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia

  • 2009–2015

    Deputy Head of Department, Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia

  • 2001–2009

    Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia
     

  • 1996–2001

    Post-Doctoral Fellow, Melbourne University, Australia

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