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Career
2010-2013 ARC Postdoctoral
Research Fellow – Centre for Evolutionary Biology, UWA
2010-2010 UWA Postdoctoral
Research Fellow - Centre for Evolutionary Biology, UWA
2008-2010 NSERC Postdoctoral
Fellowship – Centre for Evolutionary Biology, UWA
2004-2008 PhD – Department of
Biology – McMaster University, Canada
1998-2003 Honours BSc –
Department of Zoology – University of British Columbia, Canada
Awards
2011
UWA Outstanding Young Investigator Award
2009 UWA Early
Career Researcher Award for Best Work Accepted for Publication
Funding Received
2012 UWA: Research Collaboration Award – hosted at
Uppsala University
2011 ARC: Discovery Grant (with Catherine Grueber
and Jon Evans)
2011 UWA: Research Collaboration Award – hosted at
Uppsala University
2010 ARC: Discovery Grant and APD Fellowship
2009 UWA: Research Development Award
2009 UWA: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2008 NSERC: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Collaborators at UWA
Jon Evans – Studying inbreeding depression
in guppies, sexual selection in marine invertebrates
Leigh Simmons –
Studying selection on the ejaculate in marine invertebrates, trade-offs among
sexually selected traits
Paco
Garcia-Gonzalez – Studying sexual selection in marine
invertebrates
Boris Baer –
Studying sperm and mating system evolution in social insects
Joe Tomkins –
Using meta-analyses to study how sperm competition influences testes and sperm
evolution
Shaun Collin and
his research group – Studying sperm and genital evolution in sharks, skates and rays
External Collaborators
Sigal Balshine
(McMaster University, Canada)
Bob Montgomerie
(Queen’s University, Canada)
Niclas Kolm
(Uppsala University, Sweden)
Chris Wood
(McMaster University, Canada)
Media
New Scientist 2009:
Article on “Competition drives
evolution of ‘super sperm’”.
Cosmos Magazine 2009: Article
on “Infidelity
encourages faster sperm”.
New Scientist 2009:
Article on “Inbreeding
sabotages rare species' sperm”.
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