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 Hamburgsince 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