Former members of the Macroevolution & Macroecology Group
Former postdocs
Russell Dinnage (postdoctoral RA, 2015-2019)
Caroline Chong (postdoctoral RA, 2015)
Dan Warren (postdoctoral RA, 2012-2014)
Peter Cowman (postdoctoral RA, 2012-2014)
Haris Saslis-Lagoudakis (postdoctoral RA, 2013-2014)
Rob Lanfear (postdoctoral RA, 2008-2012)
Renae Pratt (postdoctoral RA, 2010-2011)
Simon Ho (ARC postdoctoral fellow, 2008-2010)
Matthew Phillips (ARC postdoctoral fellow, 2007-2009)
Russell Dinnage (postdoctoral RA, 2015-2019)
Caroline Chong (postdoctoral RA, 2015)
Dan Warren (postdoctoral RA, 2012-2014)
Peter Cowman (postdoctoral RA, 2012-2014)
Haris Saslis-Lagoudakis (postdoctoral RA, 2013-2014)
Rob Lanfear (postdoctoral RA, 2008-2012)
Renae Pratt (postdoctoral RA, 2010-2011)
Simon Ho (ARC postdoctoral fellow, 2008-2010)
Matthew Phillips (ARC postdoctoral fellow, 2007-2009)
Former PhD students
Alex Skeels (PhD 2020, The Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Spatial Biodiversity Patterns)
Zoe Reynolds (PhD 2019, Disturbed birds: The function of fire in shaping patterns of avian diversity in south-eastern Australia)
David Duchene (PhD 2016, The importance of phylogenetic model assessment for macroevolutionary inference)
Camile Moray (PhD 2015, Evolutionary patterns of salt tolerance in angiosperms)
Emily Hanna (PhD 2014, Drivers of mammalian extinction and decline)
Rob Lanfear (PhD 2007, The evolution of animal body plans)
Jessica Thomas (PhD 2008, The tempo and mode of invertebrate molecular evolution)
Eric Fontanillas (PhD 2009, Molecular evolution in Metazoa: causes and consequences of variation in rate of molecular evolution)
Xavier Goldie
Alex Skeels (PhD 2020, The Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Spatial Biodiversity Patterns)
Zoe Reynolds (PhD 2019, Disturbed birds: The function of fire in shaping patterns of avian diversity in south-eastern Australia)
David Duchene (PhD 2016, The importance of phylogenetic model assessment for macroevolutionary inference)
Camile Moray (PhD 2015, Evolutionary patterns of salt tolerance in angiosperms)
Emily Hanna (PhD 2014, Drivers of mammalian extinction and decline)
Rob Lanfear (PhD 2007, The evolution of animal body plans)
Jessica Thomas (PhD 2008, The tempo and mode of invertebrate molecular evolution)
Eric Fontanillas (PhD 2009, Molecular evolution in Metazoa: causes and consequences of variation in rate of molecular evolution)
Xavier Goldie
Former honours students
Felix Smits (Honours 2020-21, Drivers of Extinction Risk and Spatial Conservation Prioritization in Australian mammals)
Jarrod Sopniewski (Honours 2020, The future of frogs: Modelling threats to Australian frogs in the face of climate change)
Oliver Webeck (Honours 2019, Projecting geographic distributions of Hakea (Proteaceae) under climate change)
Isaac Bell (Honours 2019, Explaining variation in extinction risk and predicting future decline in birds)
Ellen Miech (Honours 2016, Identifying drivers of Proteaceae declines on Western Australia's islands)
Keaghan Yaxley (Honours 2015-16, Conserving branch lengths: Phylogenetic diversity and molecular evolution)
Alex Skeels (Honours 2015, Niche evolution and spatial diversity patterns in Mediterranean hotspot plant genera)
Caela Welsh (Honours 2015, The influence of population size on rates of language evolution)
Emma Day (Honours 2014-15, Is specialization an evolutionary dead-end?)
William McAlister (Honours 2014-15, Investigating the artefactual relationship between niche breadth and geographic range size)
Christiana McDonald-Spicer (Honours 2014-15, Where are the global diversity hotspots of the Daisy family (Asteraceae)?)
Zoe Reynolds (Honours 2012, Phylogenetic, taxonomic, and functional turnover among Proteaceae assemblages)
Emily Hanna (Honours 2009, Modelling extinction risk using multiple model averaging: a case study with Australian mammals)
Tom Bennett (Honours 2010, Evolution of salt tolerance in grasses)
Felix Smits (Honours 2020-21, Drivers of Extinction Risk and Spatial Conservation Prioritization in Australian mammals)
Jarrod Sopniewski (Honours 2020, The future of frogs: Modelling threats to Australian frogs in the face of climate change)
Oliver Webeck (Honours 2019, Projecting geographic distributions of Hakea (Proteaceae) under climate change)
Isaac Bell (Honours 2019, Explaining variation in extinction risk and predicting future decline in birds)
Ellen Miech (Honours 2016, Identifying drivers of Proteaceae declines on Western Australia's islands)
Keaghan Yaxley (Honours 2015-16, Conserving branch lengths: Phylogenetic diversity and molecular evolution)
Alex Skeels (Honours 2015, Niche evolution and spatial diversity patterns in Mediterranean hotspot plant genera)
Caela Welsh (Honours 2015, The influence of population size on rates of language evolution)
Emma Day (Honours 2014-15, Is specialization an evolutionary dead-end?)
William McAlister (Honours 2014-15, Investigating the artefactual relationship between niche breadth and geographic range size)
Christiana McDonald-Spicer (Honours 2014-15, Where are the global diversity hotspots of the Daisy family (Asteraceae)?)
Zoe Reynolds (Honours 2012, Phylogenetic, taxonomic, and functional turnover among Proteaceae assemblages)
Emily Hanna (Honours 2009, Modelling extinction risk using multiple model averaging: a case study with Australian mammals)
Tom Bennett (Honours 2010, Evolution of salt tolerance in grasses)
Former research assistants
Zoe Reynolds
Renae Pratt
Tom Bennett
Gillian Gibb
Zoe Reynolds
Renae Pratt
Tom Bennett
Gillian Gibb
Former visiting students
Flavia Machado (graduate internship, 2017)
Ignacio Morales Castilla (graduate internship, 2011)
Flavia Machado (graduate internship, 2017)
Ignacio Morales Castilla (graduate internship, 2011)