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ProfessorErik Wapstra

(he/him)

Dean of Research, Sciences and Engineering

Biological Sciences

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  • Dean of Research, Sciences and Engineering
    Biological Sciences
  • +61 3 6226 2813 (Work)
  • School of Natural Sciences, Biological Sciences, 336B Life Sciences Building, Sandy Bay Campus, TAS

SUPERVISION AND TEACHING SUMMARy

Teaching
Ecology, Zoology, Behavioural Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Life History, Natural History, Herpetology, Reptiles, Animal Behaviour

Teaching expertise
Postgraduate teaching
Graduate certificate in research
Unit coordination and unit development

Teaching responsibility
Ecology (KPZ163)
Tasmanian Fauna: Ecological and Evolutionary Studies (KZA215)
Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology (KZA301)
Biology and Society (KZA306)
Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management (KZA360)
Zoology (Honours) Full time (KZA407)

SUPERVISION & TEACHING

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Climate-driven evolution in snow skinks
    10 Sep 2025
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Climate impacts on sky island reptiles
    10 Jun 2024
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    What influences ageing in an ectotherm?
    11 Sep 2023
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Does climate influence social behaviour?
    21 Aug 2023
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Sex reversal in the Tasmanian spotted snow skink: Causes and consequences
    1 Oct 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Unravelling the Co-evolutionary Dynamics between Kin Recognition and Social Complexity
    22 Nov 2019 - 18 Dec 2024
    Yorick Luc Jozef Lambreghts
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Critical Reflection of an Integrated ICT Curriculum Designed to Increase the Quantity of Professionally Competent Graduates
    2 Jul 2019 - 14 Aug 2020
    Nicole Herbert
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An Exploration of Asynchronous Birth in an Egerniinae Lizard, Liopholis whitii.
    21 Dec 2018 - 18 Dec 2024
    Deirdre Lynne Merry
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Processes that Influence the Emergence and Refinement of Sociality within the Egernia Lizard Group
    21 Dec 2018 - 18 Dec 2024
    Victoria Louise Russell
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Tomorrow is Yesterday: Early-life conditions shape ectotherm life histories
    1 Nov 2018 - 1 Mar 2024
    Hans Alexander Hansson
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Context-dependence of Social Interactions in a Family-living Skink: Implications for social evolution
    29 Jun 2018 - 28 Apr 2023
    Alix Bouffet-Halle
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mechanisms Underlying Intraspecific Divergence in Sex Determination in Carinascincus ocellatus
    19 Dec 2016 - 13 Aug 2021
    Peta Leanne Hill
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Taxonomic Revision of the Gold Coral Genus Chrysogorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Chrysogorgiidae) using a Combined Morphological and Molecular Approach, and Alternative Methods for Assessing Diversity of Deep-sea Octocorals in Underwater Imagery
    2 May 2016 - 16 Dec 2022
    Candice Bobby Untiedt
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Complex Dynamics of Ageing Processes in Snow Skinks
    30 Sep 2015 - 3 May 2022
    Luisa Joy Fitzpatrick
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Early Evolution of Family Life
    1 Jul 2015 - 17 Dec 2019
    Thomas Edward Botterill-James
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mothers and Forgotten Fathers: Prenatal effects and paternal influences on mammalian sex ratios
    31 Mar 2015 - 13 Aug 2021
    Tiana Sabine Pirtle
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Learning from Lizards: The Causes and Consequences of Plasticity
    1 Jun 2014 - 18 Dec 2018
    Kirke Lindencrone Munch
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Socio-ecology of Wildlife Conservation on Private Land
    26 May 2014 - 18 Dec 2024
    Matthew Dawe Taylor
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Varying Patterns of Plasticity Across Warming Climatic Landscapes in a Viviparous Lizard
    20 Dec 2013 - 18 Dec 2018
    George Daniel Cunningham
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Behaviour, Ecology and Social Organisation in Liopholis whitii: Insights into the evolutionary origins of sociality
    25 Mar 2013 - 19 Aug 2017
    Benjamin Halliwell
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Constraints on Maternal Ability to Adjust Sex Ratios in Mammals
    24 Sep 2012 - 12 Aug 2016
    Amy Margarett Edwards
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Sea Anemones of the Southern Ocean: Ecology, phylogenetic relationships, life history, and population genomics
    19 Mar 2012 - 19 Aug 2017
    Leslie Ann Watson
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Can Snow Skinks Survive Climate Change? The potential for behaviour, physiology and competition to mitigate and enhance climate change impacts on snow skink life history, distribution and persistence.
    12 Apr 2010 - 13 Dec 2016
    Amanda Jane Caldwell
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Thermal Biology of the Spotted Snow Skink, Niveoscincus Ocellatus, in a Warming World
    1 Dec 2008 - 12 Aug 2016
    Luh Putu Eswaryanti Kusuma Yuni
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Should I Mate or Should I Wait? The Morphology of Sperm Storage, and its Consequences for Sperm Viability and Mating Strategies in a Temperate Skink Species, Niveoscincus ocellatus
    17 Jun 2008 - 22 Jun 2012
    Mathieu Alexandre Russell