Senior Research Fellow in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Adelaide
I am an evolutionary biologist, interested in understanding how the Earth's biodiversity came to be. In 2011, I completed a PhD at the Natural History Museum, London, on a group of cryptic amphibians called caecilians. They are limbless, head-first burrowing animals, and I used museum-based collections and cutting-edge imaging techniques to investigate how their skull evolved.
Since then I have held research appointments at institutions including Harvard University, Australian National University and University of Adelaide. I have studied a diversity of animals including rabbits, bivalved scallops, lizards, frogs and their tadpoles, and sea snakes. I am an expert in the statistical analysis of organismal form, a software creator, and a passionate educator.
Why the long face? Experts provide a new theory for why larger mammals tend to have longer faces
Dec 12, 2023 15:57 pm UTC| Nature
A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks, why the long face? Its one of the oldest puns in the book, and theres no shortage of entertaining answers. With our new review we add our own scientific explanation:...
In the Year of the Rabbit, spare a thought for all these wonderful endangered bunny species
Jan 24, 2023 07:37 am UTC| Nature
What do you think when you hear the word rabbit? Does your mind conjure images of cartoon bunnies eating carrots? Or the fluffy tails and floppy ears of pet bunnies? Maybe you think about their incredible ability to...