- PhD Candidate in Evolution, Ecology & Genetics, Australian National University
Andrew is a 3rd year PhD student at the ANU in Canberra, Australia. He is a member of both the J-lab (Michael Jennions) and the Kokkonuts (Hanna Kokko). He completed a Bachelor of Science (advanced; 1st class honours) at the ANU in 2010.
His research focuses on asking: how do environmental factors interact with sexual selection to shape the behaviour and life-history traits of the animals around us?
Currently he is working on answering:
- How do the social and physical environments interact to affect sexual selection and sexual harassment in Gambusia holbrooki?
- Why did synchronous male signalling evolve in the fiddler crab, Uca mjoebergi?
- Whats the optimal pattern of sex allocation when offspring die during parental care?
Experience
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–presentPhD candidate in Evolution, Ecology & Genetics, Australian National University
Education
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Australian National University, PhD/Evolution (in progress)
Research Areas
- Evolutionary Biology (0603)
- Behavioural Ecology (060201)
- Animal Behaviour (060801)
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- Location: Canberra, Australia
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