Our People

Head of Department

• LOKMAN, Mark, Professor
  

  Email hod@zoology.otago.ac.nz

  Please ring reception to make appointments to see Mark: +64 3 479 7976

Academic staff

Lecturing staff

• BECK, Caroline, Associate Professor
  Developmental biology, regeneration, patterning, embryology
• BENNETT, Jerusha, Dr
  Wildlife parasitology, biodiversity, ecology and evolution of parasites
• CLOSS, Gerry, Professor
  Freshwater and estuarine fish and invertebrate ecology
• DUTOIT, Ludovic, Dr
  Evolution, genomics, bioinformatics
• FRENCH, Rebecca
  Wildlife, pathogens and environmental factors
• GEURTEN, Bart, Dr
  Neuroscience, insects, computational neural networks
• GODFREY, Stephanie, Associate Professor
  Wildlife parasite and disease ecology, behaviour, social networks
• INGRAM, Travis, Associate Professor (Director, Ecology Degree Programme)
  Evolutionary ecology, freshwater food webs, macroevolution
• JANDT, Jennifer, Dr
  Social insect behavioural ecology
• JOHNSON, Sheri, Associate Professor
  Behavioural ecology, behavioural genetics, environmental epigenetics
• LOKMAN, Mark, Professor (Head of Department)
  Reproduction, development, endocrine systems, aquaculture
• MATTHAEI, Christoph, Professor
  Stream ecology, disturbance, restoration, human land uses
• MONKS, Jo, Dr
  Conservation, herpetology, alpine ecology
• POULIN, Robert, Professor
  Parasitism, ecology, evolution, marine ecosystems
• RAWLENCE, Nic, Associate Professor
  Ancient DNA, palaeoecology, conservation
• ROBERTSON, Bruce C., Professor (Director, Wildlife Management)
  Wildlife management, conservation, genetics, behaviour, molecular ecology
• SZYSZKA, Paul, Associate Professor
  Insect behaviour and neurobiology
• THOMPSON, Ross, Professor
  Community and ecosystem ecology
• van HEEZIK, Yolanda, Professor
  Urban ecology, wildlife management
• WATERS, Jon, Professor
  Marine and freshwater biogeography, phylogeography, molecular evolution

Emeriti

• BURNS, Carolyn, Emeritus Professor
  Lake ecosystems, plankton ecology, climate change
• CREE, Alison, Emeritus Professor
  Reproduction, ecophysiology, herpetology, conservation
• MERCER, Alison, Emeritus Professor
  Learning mechanisms and stress reactivity in honeybees
• SEDDON, Phil, Professor
  Reintroduction biology; wildlife management; penguin ecology
• SLOOTEN, Liz, Emeritus Professor
  Marine mammals, population biology, conservation
• SPENCER, Hamish, Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professor
  Population-genetic theory, genomic imprinting, phylogenetics, plasticity, molluscs
• TOWNSEND, Colin, Emeritus Professor
  Stream ecology, multiple stressors, land-use impacts
• WALLIS, Graham, Emeritus Professor
  Evolutionary genetics, systematics, hybridisation, phylogeography
• WHARTON, David, Emeritus Professor
  Environmental physiology, parasitology, invertebrate biology

Adjunct staff

• LAGRUE, Clement, Honorary Senior Lecturer
• PIGGOTT, Jeremy 'Jay', Honorary Lecturer
• SCHLESSELMANN,  Anne

Senior / Teaching / Professional Practice Fellows

• BESSON, Anne
  Teaching Fellow for 200-level, Contract Lecturer and Assistant Research Fellow
• HARRIS, Kim, Dr
  Senior Teaching Fellow for CELS191 and CELS199
• HENDERSON, Dr Lucy,
  Teaching Fellow for CELS191 and BIOL112
• KING, Keith, Dr
  Senior Teaching Fellow for CELS191 and BIOL112, course coordinator for BIOL112
• PICKERELL, Georgina, Dr
  Teaching Fellow for 200-level
• RUSSELL, Lisa, Dr
  Senior Teaching Fellow, course coordinator for CELS191 and CELS199
• WALLACE, Mary
  Teaching Fellow for CELS191 and BIOL112

Postdoctoral and Research Fellows

• DAMSTEEGT, Erin, Dr
• HASEGAWA, Ryota, Dr
• KENNEDY, Martyn, Dr
• LI, CHENHUA, Dr
• MATTERN, Thomas, Dr
• MCCULLOCH, Graham, Dr
• PRESSWELL, Bronwen, Dr
• SCHALLENBERG, Marc, Associate Professor

Support staff

Administrative staff

Technical staff

Postgraduate students

• Masters' students
• PhD students