UNSW Leaders in Science

Associate Professor Robert Brooks
Director, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre

Biological Sciences Building - Room 450D
Phone: +61 2 9385-2587 - Fax: +61 2 9385-1558 - Email: rob.brooks@unsw.edu.au

Career profile Publications Research Supervision & teaching Funding

PhD positions available

Opportunities are now available for PhD research projects supervised by Associate Professor Rob Brooks.

Ideally, students would have with skills in genetics, functional genomics, quantitative genetics, and computational biology. Research projects are well-funded, but students should be competitive for a scholarship to pay living expenses and tuition.

Much of the current research is conducted on guppies, field crickets and native flies. There are also opportunitities to work on mice and native Australian fishes (especially osteoglossids and blue-eyes). Close links with Simon Griffith's group provide opportunities for cosupervised projects on other taxa (especially birds).

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Supervision & teaching

Teaching

BIOS3011 - Animal Behaviour

PhD Students

Lyndon Alexander Jordan (2007-present). Costs of courtship in fishes. Australian postgraduate Award and E&ERC Top-up Scholarship.

Louise McKenzie (2007-present). Evolutionary ecotoxicology of marine invasive species. Australian postgraduate Award and E&ERC Top-up Scholarship.

Matthew Hall (2005-present). The Evolutionary Consequences of Sexual Conflict. Funding: Australian Postgraduate Award.

Felix Zajitschek (2004-present). Ageing and Reproductive Effort in the Field Cricket, Teleogryllus commodus. Funding: International Postgraduate Research Scholarship.

Susanne Zajitschek (2004-present). Inbreeding Avoidance Behaviour in Guppies. Funding: International Postgraduate Research Scholarship.

Megan Head (2001-2005). The Evolutionary Consequences of the Costs of Mate Choice. Funding: Australian Postgraduate Award, Faculty of Science Scholarship, Sigma-Xi grant.

Emma Burns (2001-2005). Phylogeography, population history and conservation genetics of the endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog (Litoria aurea, Anura: Hylidae). Funding: Australian Postgraduate Award.

and twenty two Honours or Masters by research students.