Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

PhD. in Evolutionary Biology
Thesis: "The role of sexual conflict in the maintenance of obligate sex: insights from facultatively parthenogenetic systems" University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia
2014 to 2018

Bachelor (Hons.) of Advanced Science (Ecology)
Thesis: "Does sexual conflict maintain facultative parthenogenesis in the spiny leaf stick insect?"
UNSW Sydney, Australia
2013

Teaching & Lecturing

Course creator and teacher (Master’s level)
MBIO-W-57 Introduction to R for Master’s Students, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2024 to present

Lab tutor/demonstrator (Master’s level)
MBIO-AB-2 Evolution and Behaviour, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2023 to present

Field course tutor/demonstrator (Master’s level)
MBIO-AB-2 Behavioural Ecology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
2023

Guest lecturer (3rd year undergraduate level)
BIOSCI-337 Animal Behaviour, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
2022

Guest lecturer (3rd year undergraduate level)
BIOS-3171 Evolution, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
2017

Lab tutor/demonstrator (3rd year undergraduate level)
BIOS-3171 Evolution, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
2015 to 2018

Field course tutor/demonstrator (3rd year undergraduate level)
BIOS-3171 Evolution, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
2015 to 2018

Grants & Funding

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Grant
Project: Sexual conflict in the sexually cannibalistic springbok mantis (Miomantis caffra) Horizon Europe, European Union
2021

Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Grant
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2021

Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) Grant
School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2020

Prizes, Awards & Honours

Department of Biology “Research Days” Competition (Winner: Best Talk) Department of Biology, Universität Hamburg
2023

Outstanding Ecology and Evolution Thesis
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney
2018

Three Minute Thesis Competition (Highly Commended)
School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales Sydney
2017

Outstanding Evolution & Ecology Student Paper (Runner-up)
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney
2017

Outstanding Evolution & Ecology (Postgraduate) Researcher
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney
2015

Phil Carne Prize (Runner-up)
Australian Entomological Society
2015

NESCent/HHMI/SSE Annual Evolution Film Festival Winner
Evolution Conference, Guaruja, Brazil
2015

Crispin Rice Prize for Outreach and Communication in Evolution and Ecology
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney
2014

Outstanding Student Talk (Runner-up)
Australasian Evolution Society Conference, Geelong
2014

Research Training Program Scholarship
Australian Department of Education and Training
2014 to 2018

UNSW Research Excellence Award ($10,000 per annum)
University of New South Wales Sydney
2014 to present

University Medal in Ecology
University of New South Wales Sydney
2013

Summer Vacation Research Scholarship
University of New South Wales Sydney
2013

Conference presentations

Behaviour2023, Bielefeld, Germany
Talk: "Trick and treat: dishonest signalling in a cannibalistic mantis"
2023

Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Prague, Czech Republic
Poster: "Females benefit from mating multiply despite male-inflicted injury and death"
2022

Department seminar, Department of Life Science, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Invited talk: "Male coercion and female injury in the sexually cannibalistic Springbok mantis"
2021

International Society for Behavioural Ecology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
Talk: "Male coercion and female injury in the sexually cannibalistic Springbok mantis"
2021

New Zealand Entomological Society Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand
Talk: "Male coercion and female injury in the sexually cannibalistic Springbok mantis"
2021

Department seminar, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Invited talk: "Sexual conflict and the paradox of obligate sex: insights from facultatively parthenogenetic systems"
2020

Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference (online)
Talk: "Males wound females in violent pre-mating struggles to avoid being cannibalised"
2020

Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference, Waiheke, New Zealand
Talk: "Conditional benefits of sex: sexually but not parthenogenetically produced females perform better via sex in a stick insect"
2019

Australasian Evolution Society Conference, Sydney, Australia
Talk: "Intralocus sexual conflict explains diverse patterns of inheritance of parental effects"
2019

II Joint Congress of Evolutionary Biology, Montpellier, France
Talk: "Sexual conflict, facultative asexuality, and the true paradox of sex"
2018

Australasian Evolution Society Conference, Hobart, Australia
Talk: "Sexual conflict in juveniles: exposure to immature males reduces asexual performance in the spiny leaf stick insect"
2017

Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Melbourne, Australia
Talk: "Bet-hedging in response to mate limitation in the spiny leaf stick insect"
2017

Behaviour2015, Cairns, Australia
Talk: "Socially acquired personality in a non-social insect"
2015

Australian Entomological Society Conference, Cairns, Australia
Invited talk: "Sticking it to the man: does sexual conflict maintain facultative parthenogenesis in the spiny leaf stick insect?"
2015

Australasian Evolution Society Conference, Geelong, Australia
Talk: "Sticking it to the man: does sexual conflict maintain facultative parthenogenesis in the spiny leaf stick insect?"
2014

Volunteering

Exhibition Curator/Organiser
Creative Conversations Exhibition, Sydney Fringe Festival, NSW, Australia
2017

Garden Designer/Facilitator
St Thomas Aquinas Primary School, NSW, Australia
2009 to 2010

Youth mentor
Wingecarribee Health Association for Men, NSW, Australia
2008

Climate Advocate
Climate Action Now Wingecarribee (CANWin), NSW, Australia
2007 to 2009

Professional Employment

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow
European Commission | Universität Hamburg, Germany
Sep 2023 to present

Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Universität Hamburg, Germany
Mar 2022 to Sep 2023

FRDF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dec 2019 to Dec 2021

Postdoctoral Researcher
University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
Jan 2019 to Dec 2019

University Tutor/Demonstrator
University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
Jul 2015 to Nov 2018

Freelance Ecology Teacher
Contracted Employment, NSW, Australia
2014

Disability Carer
Contracted Employment, NSW, Australia
2013 to 2014

Cheese Making Workshop Facilitator
Contracted Employment, NSW, Australia
2008 to 2018

Sustainability Workshop Facilitator
Contracted Employment, NSW, Australia
2008 to 2013

Permaculture Garden Designer
Contracted Employment, NSW, Australia
2008 to 2009

Wholesale Horticulturist/Propagator
Welby Garden Centre, NSW, Australia
2007 to 2009

References

Prof. Russell Bonduriansky
Honours and PhD supervisor
University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
bonduriansky.net

Prof. Shinichi Nakagawa
Postdoc advisor
University of Alberta, Canada
http://www.i-deel.org/

Prof. Dr. Jutta Schneider
Postdoc advisor
Universität Hamburg, Germany
https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/evolutionsbiologie/verhbio/mitarbeiter/schneider-jutta.html