Associate Professor Lisa Schwanz - Lab Leader
Deputy Director
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
UNSW Sydney
email: [email protected]
ph: (0)2 9065 1997
Deputy Director
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
UNSW Sydney
email: [email protected]
ph: (0)2 9065 1997
I am recruiting PhD students with interests in animal evolutionary ecology, thermal ecology, phenotypic plasticity, sex allocation. Please email me with any inquiries and tell me what interests you.
Current Lab Members
Davey Dor (PhD, 2022 - ) - Nest relocation and early life of green sea turtles
Daphne Willemsen (PhD, 2024 - ) - Conflict between native wildlife and human development
Ebony Baggs (Honours, 2025) - Efficacy of artificial nestboxes
Current Lab Members
Davey Dor (PhD, 2022 - ) - Nest relocation and early life of green sea turtles
Daphne Willemsen (PhD, 2024 - ) - Conflict between native wildlife and human development
Ebony Baggs (Honours, 2025) - Efficacy of artificial nestboxes
Past Lab Members
Post-docs
Post-docs
- Dr. Julia Riley (Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellow 2018) - reptile cognition
- Dr. Jussi Lehtonen (VC Postdoctoral Fellow 2016 - 2018) - theory of sex and sex allocation
- Dr. Thomas Merkling (Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellow and Fyssen Visiting Fellow, 2016-17) - meta-anlayses of physiological correlates of offspring sex ratio in birds and mammals
- Rebecca Raynal (Ph.D. 2024 ), University of New South Wales - Impacts of temperature on development and physiology
- Phil Pearson (Ph.D. 2023), University of Canberra - The maternal influence on fitness correlates in a lizard with sex reversal
- Claudia Crowther (Ph.D. 2023), University of New South Wales - A shifting switch: How plasticity shapes the evolution of environmental sex determination
- Kris Wild (Ph.D. 2022), University of Canberra - The ecological and evolutionary significance of sex-reversal in Australian lizards
- Mitchell Hodgson (Ph.D. 2021), University of New South Wales - Thermal physiology and behaviour of ectotherms: How evolution and plasticity define responses to temperature and climate.
- Maria Boyle (Ph.D. 2013), University of Canberra - Consequences of temperature-dependent sex determination for population persistence and range change under warming climates.
- Emma Collins (Honours, 2024) - Rehabilitation success in western ringtail possums
- Rory O'Connell (Honours, 2024) - Impact of vegetation cover on the thermal ecology of arid zone lizards
- Daphne Willemsen (Honours, 2023) - Ecological determinants of kangaroo abundance and behaviour in an arid habitat
- Shirley Chia (Honours, 2022) - Animal diversity in relation to natural variation in vegetation
- Lewis Loncar (Honours, 2022) - Insect assemblages associated with Mulga trees
- Davey Dor (Honours 2021) - snail host life history response to trematode parasites
- Rachel Irwin (Honours 2019) - costs of thermoregulation
- Emily Rayner (Honours 2017/18) - developmental effects on cognition in reptiles
- Louis Dardare (Honours 2017) - modelling sperm limitation
- Gracie Liu (Honours 2017) - hormonal mediators of maternal effects in jacky dragons
- Rebecca Pacey (Honours 2017) - sources of colour pattern variation in jacky dragon hatchlings
- Janelle So (Honours 2017) - thermal parental effects on thermal preferences and limits
- Mathew Harper (Honours 2016) - thermal parental effects on offspring basking behaviour
- Mitchell Hodgson (Honours 2016; Summer Vacation Research Scholar 2015) - thermal adaptation in jacky dragons
- Stephanie McDonald (Honours 2015) - thermal parental effects on offspring behaviour
