Career profile
Tertiary and postgraduate education
1989 - 92
Bachelor of Science with Honours (1st Class) in Zoology. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1993 - 96
PhD in Zoology. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Thesis title: Sexual selection by female choice in guppies (Poecilia reticulata).
Appointments (principal)
Current position
Director, UNSW Evolution & Ecology Research Centre. Associate Professor and ARC Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Started 2001).
1999 - 00
ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow: James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.
1997- 99
Foundation for Research Development (South Africa) Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellow, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.
1995 - 97
Junior Lecturer, Department of Zoology, University of the Witwatersrand.
Awards & citations
2005
ARC Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellowship
Tall Poppy Award (NSW Ministry for Science & Medical Research)
2003
Outstanding New Researcher (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour)
1999
ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship
1997
Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship (FRD, South Africa)
1993
Fantham Memorial Scholarship for Overseas Study (did not take up)
University Senior Bursary, FRD Postgraduate Bursary
1992
Zoological Society of Southern Africa Award for best Honours student
Faculty of Science Merit Award
University Senior Bursary, FRD Postgraduate Bursary
1989
HJ Hofmeyr War Memorial Scholarship
and three minor scholarships.
Professional organisations and editorial committees for research journals
2006 - 7
President, Australasian Evolution Society.
2007 - 10
Editor, PLoS One
2006 - 10
Editor, Behavioural Ecology
2006 - 8
Editorial Board Member, Biology Letters
Refereed papers and grant / book proposals for:
Nature, Science, Evolution, The American Naturalist, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Trends in Genetics, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Molecular Ecology, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Genetica, Animal Behaviour, Behavioural Ecology, Ecology Letters, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Biology Letters, Behaviour, South African Journal of Zoology, Ethology, Aquaculture, Australian Journal of Ecology, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Journal of Fish Biology, Oxford University Press, Leverhulme Trust, Australian Research Council, National Science Foundation (USA), National Research Foundation (South Africa), NERC (UK), BBSRC (UK), NSERC (Canada).
OZREADER for the Australian Research Council Biological Science and Biotechnology Grant Assessment Panel (2001- present).