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Professor

Erik Wapstra

Associate Dean Research Performance/Professor

Biological Sciences

Orcid identifier0000-0002-2050-8026
  • Associate Dean Research Performance/Professor
    Biological Sciences
  • +61 3 6226 2813 (Work)
  • School of Natural Sciences, Biological Sciences, 336B Life Sciences Building, Sandy Bay Campus, TAS

BIO

Professor Wapstra has been in the School of Biological Sciences since 2004 after completing research fellowships at the Macquarie University, The University of Sydney and Gothenburg University in Sweden. He is currently an ARC Future Fellow working at the interface of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Climate Change. Erik works mostly on reptile model systems including Tasmanian snow skinks (maternal effects, sex allocation, climate effects), Egernia lizards (evolution of sociality and mating systems) and European sand lizards (sexual selection and climate effects).

Career summary

Qualifications
PhD Life history evolution in snow skins University of Tasmania Australia 01/12/1998

Memberships
Professional practice
Australian Society of Herpetologists
Australasian Society of Evolutionary Biology
International Society of Behavioural Ecology
Ecological Society of Australia

SCHOOL AND PORTFOLIO

  • School of Natural Sciences

FIELD OF RESEARCH