Brief CV –
2009 – 2014 Monash Fellow
2007 – 2009 Post-doc at the Centre for Evolutionary Biology University of Western Australia
2005 – 2007 Wenner-Gren Foundations post-doc Uppsala University, Sweden
2004 – 2005 Swedish Institute post-doc Uppsala University Sweden
2000 – 2004 Australian Postgraduate AwardPhD @ University of Melbourne
1995 – 1998 BSc (Honours)University of Melbourne
My career in science began in 1998 (Honours @ University of Melbourne) when I spent a year exploring the host-parasite interactions in the Seychelles warbler, a small bird found only on a few tiny islands that lie in the middle of the Indian Ocean. I completed this project in Jan Komdeur’s lab at Groningen University, Netherlands, before heading home to Melbourne to take a year off science.
In 2000, I commenced my PhD at the University of Melbourne (supervised by Raoul Mulder), during which time I studied the breeding dynamics and evolutionary ecology (plumage colour signalling and sex allocation) of the Red-capped Robin, a brilliantly coloured Australian bird.
To get a better handle on the sorts of evolutionary questions that fascinated me, I then switched to studying more tractable animals – namely insects such as fruit flies and seed beetles. I headed to Sweden in 2004 on the back of a post-doc scholarship hosted by Göran Arnqvist at Uppsala University. In 2007, I headed back to Australia on the invitation of ARC Federation Fellow Leigh Simmons to work as a post-doc in the Centre for Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia. In 2009, I moved to Melbourne on receipt of a Monash University Research Fellowship.
The male Red-capped Robin (photo: P. Sunnucks)
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