About me
I completed my PhD with Prof Leigh Simmons and Assoc Prof Joseph Tomkins at UWA, working on the social evolution of sexual conflict. I then took up a postdoctoral position at the University of Exeter in the UK with Prof David Hosken and Prof Nina Wedell, where we worked on social effects on female mate choice and alternative reproductive tactics. Moving back to Australia, I received a Forrest Fellowship to work on the behaviour and management of invasive ants, including antagonistic interactions and ant warfare, with Prof Raphael Didham at UWA and Dr Bruce Webber at CSIRO.
After the completion of my Forrest Fellowship, I was lucky enough to be recruited by Assoc/Prof Melissa Thomas and Prof Simon McKirdy at the Harry Butler Institute's Centre for Biosecurity and One Health. Here, we are working on an internationally collaborative project on the risk of hitchhiker pests in shipping containers. This project includes assessment of modifications to container structural design as well as the investigation of hitchhiker pest behaviour and ecology, with the ultimate goal of providing updated guidelines for biosecurity in the global shipping container industry.
As well as the above work, my past and existing side-projects include the ecology and conservation of freshwater ecosystems, population genetic structure in response to human disturbance, symbiotic interactions in endemic carnivorous plants, and the chemical control of invasive insects.