People

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Lab Director

Corey BradshawMatthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology, Professor Corey J. A. Bradshaw

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I am an environmental modeller who develops mathematical approaches to predict ecosystem function, resilience, and change in the past, present, and future, with a focus on maintaining biodiversity. I am a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, and a founding member of Future Child Health. See my bio and CV for more information.

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Postdoctoral & Research Fellows

Julian BeamanDr Julian Beaman

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I am an evolutionary physiologist by training. My previous research combined theory and data to understand how evolutionary processes cause variation in rates of energy expenditure and thermoregulatory physiology in animals. I’ve studied a range of organisms, including insects, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals (and recently plants and microorganisms), both in the lab and in the field. My research in the Global Ecology Lab will help to integrate disparate data streams from a multidisciplinary koala behaviour, ecology, and genomics program to predict how genetic diversity and adaptive capacity in koala populations arise from individual births, deaths, and dispersal through the landscape.

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John LlewelynDr John Llewelyn

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Environmental changes, such as the arrival of an invasive species or a shift in climate, can have large, flow-on effects that alter species interactions and cause compositional changes in species assemblages. My research focuses on how such changes cascade through ecosystems, with a particular focus on late Pleistocene Australian ecological networks. I am employed under the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, in which I was until recently also the Early-Career Research Representative.

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Caitlin MudgeDr Caitlin Mudge

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I am a palaeogeneticist interested in understanding past biodiversity change in Australia during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. I use ancient DNA to investigate mammalian responses to climate change through time and how faunal distributions have changed since European arrival in 1788. I completed my PhD in 2023 looking at cryptic diversity in native rodents, phylogeography of the western quoll, and distribution of thylacines across the Bassian Isthmus. I am currently a research assistant with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage developing the SahulTraits database.

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—Cody NitschkeDr Cody Nitschke

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I am an applied mathematician working as a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures. My research broadly focuses on developing mechanistic models of biological and evolutionary processes.  I work closely with an interdisciplinary group of experts from areas including biology, philosophy, anthropology, and ecology.  In the past, I developed a series of mathematical models that explore the evolution of multicellularity from unicellular ancestors and of uniquely human behaviour from our closest primate relatives. Now, I’m developing mathematical models to investigate the impact of novel diseases on Australia’s Indigenous population through contact with European settlers.  To address these problems, I apply ordinary differential equations and agent-based models.

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—Alex WallDr Alexander Wall

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I am an Earth scientists with expertise in palaeoecology, geochemistry, and sedimentology. I will begin my tenure in the Global Ecology Lab from September 2025 as a Research Associate in Environmental Time Series Modelling within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures.

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PhD Candidates

Sofie CostinSofie Costin

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I completed my Honours in 2022 and began a PhD in 2024 on invasive buffel grass in both the Global Ecology and Frontiers of Restoration Ecology labs.—

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Pete HamnettPete Hamnett

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I completed my Honours in 2023 on developing a demographic models to support feral pig eradication on Kangaroo Island. My PhD is focussed on the management of feral deer in South Australia.

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—Fiona LavianoFiona Laviano

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I am interested in examining the biodiversity dynamics of past environments. With a background in both ecology and archaeology, I am focusing my PhD research on modelling Neanderthal extinctions that happened when Homo sapiens colonised Europe during a cold climate event nearly 45,000 years ago.

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Madeline Riley (née Thiele)Madeline Riley (née Thiele)

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I am a marine biology graduate interested in mitigating conflict between large predatory sharks and humans. My Honours project in 2018 assessed the efficacy of five commercially available shark deterrents on white sharks Carcharodon carcharias. My PhD research is focussing on assessing shark bite risks and mitigation measures in Australia.

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Jay ThomasJay Thomas

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For my Honours (part-time) project I am working on testing the relationship between koala habitat use intensity and canopy density as an index of potential over-browsing.

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Former students (completed)

PhD

Antoine ChampreuxDr Antoine Champreux

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I am a palaeoecologist and palaeobotanist interested in how landscapes changed through time. I combine information from dynamic vegetation models and fossil records to understand how vegetation and ecosystem responded to climate change in Central and South America since the Last Glacial Maximum (~ 19,000 years ago). My research focused on megafauna extinctions, fire regime changes, and human colonisation.

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Seamus DohertySeamus Doherty

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I investigated how ecological communities in the Wet Tropics of Australia will change as climate change progresses this century. I am currently employed in the Invasive Species Unit of Biosecurity SA (Department of Primary Industries and Regions SA)

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Rupert MathwinDr Rupert Mathwin

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I modelled the population dynamics of frogs to guide conservation in South Australia. I am now employed at Charles Sturt University, but work from the Global Ecology Lab in Adelaide. I am also an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF).

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Completed Honours

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Adjuncts and Visiting Academics

Frédérik SaltréDr Frédérik Saltré

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I was the Lab Director of Global Ecology from 2018–2024. I am now a Flinders University Adjunct and Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Biogeography in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney and Research Scientist in the Climate Solutions Centre at the Australian Museum. I am also a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF). I continue to have an active role in research and supervision in the Global Ecology Laboratory.

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Syeda Hira FatimaDr (Syeda) Hira Fatima

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I completed my PhD at the School of Public Health at the University of Adelaide, in 2023. My PhD focussed on analysing the impacts of current and projected climate on work, health, and safety using epidemiological models with implications in policies and risk prevention. My research in the Global Ecology Lab and Future Child Health examined how climate change affects child health in Australia and globally. I am now based at the University of Canberra working as a Research Fellow for the Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) Network

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) Affiliates

  • Professor Jonathan Benjamin, Associate Investigator (Flinders University, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Dr Mirani Litster, Associate Investigator (Flinders University, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Dr Rupert Mathwin, Associate Investigator (Flinders University, College of Science and Engineering & Charles Sturt University)
  • Uncle Clyde Rigney, Partner Investigator (Elder, Ngarrindjeri Nation)
  • Bill Wilson, Partner Investigator (Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal Corporation)
  • Dr Chelsea Wiseman, Associate Investigator

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) Affiliates

  • Professor Jonathan Benjamin, Associate Investigator (Flinders University, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Professor Penny Edmonds, Associate Investigator (Flinders University, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Associate Professor Ian Moffat, Associate Investigator (Flinders University, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Professor Mike Morley, Associate Investigator (Flinders University, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Associate Professor Vera Weisbecker, Chief Investigator (Flinders University College of Science and Engineering)
  • Dr Christopher Wilson, Associate Investigator (University of Tasmania)

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Lab affiliates

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Former Members

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