Our People

• Head of Department
• Academic Staff
• Support Staff
• Postgraduate Students

Head of Department

• LOKMAN, Mark (Associate Professor)
  

  Email hod@zoology.otago.ac.nz

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

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Academic Staff

• Lecturing Staff
• Emeriti
• Adjunct Staff
• Senior/Teaching/Professional Practice Fellows
• Postdoctoral and Research Fellows
• Research Assistants

Lecturing Staff

• BECK, Caroline, Associate Professor 
    Developmental biology, regeneration, patterning, embryology
• CLOSS, Gerry, Professor 
    Freshwater and estuarine fish and invertebrate ecology
• DUTOIT, Ludovic, Dr
    Evolution, genomics, bioinformatics
• GEURTEN, Bart, Dr
    Neuroscience, insects, computational neural networks
• GODFREY, Stephanie, Dr 
    Wildlife parasite and disease ecology, behaviour, social networks
• INGRAM, Travis, Dr
    Evolutionary ecology, freshwater food webs, macroevolution
• JANDT, Jennifer, Dr  
    Social insect behavioural ecology
• JOHNSON, Sheri, Dr
    Behavioural ecology, behavioural genetics, environmental epigenetics
• LOKMAN, Mark, Associate Professor (Head of Department)
    Reproduction, development, endocrine systems, aquaculture
• MATTHAEI, Christoph, Professor (Director, Ecology Degree Program)
    Stream ecology, disturbance, restoration, human land uses
• MONKS, Jo, Dr
    Conservation, herpetology, alpine ecology
• POULIN, Robert, Professor
    Parasitism, ecology, evolution, marine ecosystems
• RAWLENCE, Nic, Dr
    Ancient DNA, palaeoecology, conservation
• ROBERTSON, Bruce C., Professor
    Wildlife management, conservation, genetics, behaviour, molecular ecology
• SEDDON, Phil, Professor 
    Reintroduction biology; wildlife management; penguin ecology
• SPENCER, Hamish, Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professor
    Population-genetic theory, genomic imprinting, phylogenetics, plasticity, molluscs
• SZYSZKA, Paul, Dr 
    Insect behaviour and neurobiology
• van HEEZIK, Yolanda, Professor (Director, Wildlife Management)
    Urban ecology, wildlife management
• WATERS, Jon, Professor
    Marine and freshwater biogeography, phylogeography, molecular evolution

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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
• SLOOTEN, Liz, Emeritus Professor
    Marine mammals, population biology, conservation
• 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

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Adjunct Staff

• GREENSPOON, Philip, Honorary Research Fellow
• LAGRUE, Clement, Honorary Senior Lecturer
• NAKAGAWA, Shinichi, Honorary Associate Professor
• PIGGOTT, Jeremy 'Jay', Honorary Lecturer 
• WILSON, Deborah, Honorary Associate Professor

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Senior/Teaching/Professional Practice Fellows

• ACHILLEOS, Katerina
    Teaching Fellow for CELS191
• BESSON, Anne
    Teaching Fellow for 200-level, Contract Lecturer and Assistant Research Fellow
• BROWN, Andrea
    Teaching Fellow for CELS191 and BIOL112
• CHIA, Jolyn
    Teaching Fellow for 200-level
• FORRESTER, Jo
    Teaching Fellow for CELS191
• HARRIS, Kim
    Teaching Fellow for CELS191
• KING, Keith, Dr
    Teaching Fellow for CELS191 and BIOL112
• PICKERELL, Georgina, Dr
    Teaching Fellow for 200-level
• RICKARD-GREEN, Mia
    Teaching Fellow for CELS191
• TOWNSEND, Sheena, Dr
    Professional Practice Fellow and 200-level coordinator
• WALLACE, Mary
    Teaching Fellow for CELS191

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Postdoctoral and Research Fellows

• BENNETT, Jerusha, Dr
• DAMSTEEGT, Erin, Dr
• KENNEDY, Martyn, Dr
• MATTERN, Thomas, Dr
• MCCULLOCH, Graham, Dr
• SABADEL, Amandine, Dr
• SALLOUM, Priscila, Dr
• SCHALLENBERG, Marc, Dr
• WINKWORTH, Cynthia, Dr

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Support Staff

Administrative Staff

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Technical Staff

Postgraduate Students

• Masters Students
• PhD Students