CV

Current positions

Behavioural Biologist, Conservation Behaviour Lab
Taronga Conservation Society Australia

Macquarie University Research Fellow
Department of Biological Sciences
Studying the use of olfactory cues in marine predator foraging and multimodal communication in mammals

Previous positions

2011-2013

Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London
Fyssen Foundation Fellowship
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
Studying communication, cognition and intrasexual selection in ungulates

2007-2010

PhD Candidate, Cotutelle Program
“Individual recognition systems and multi-modal signalling in the Australian sea lion, Neophoca cinerea”
Marine Mammal Research Group, Graduate School of the Environment
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Supervised by Professor Rob Harcourt.
Bioacoustics Team, Centre Neurosciences Paris Sud
Universite Paris Sud 11, CNRS, Orsay, France.
Supervised by Dr Isabelle Charrier and Dr Thierry Aubin.

2005-2007

Research Assistant, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Assistant to Associate Professor Rob Magrath, School of Botany and Zoology

2004-2005

Honours Degree (1st Class), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
“Pattern calls and neighbour recognition in the white-browed scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis)”
Supervised by Associate Professor Rob Magrath, School of Botany and Zoology

2001-2003

Bachelor of Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Majors in Evolution & Ecology, and Zoology