Associate ProfessorPeter Biro

Associate Professor In Behavioural Ecology

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences

  • Associate Professor In Behavioural Ecology
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • +61 3 522 72426 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

2011 to present: Assoc. Prof. and ARC Future Fellow, Deakin University

2010 Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow, UNSW.

2009 Lecturer, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia.

2006 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, UTS.

2006 Endeavour Research Fellow, UTS.

2003 NSERC Postdoctoral fellow, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Research Groups
Postdoctoral fellows
Dr Kerry Fanson (2012
present)
Metabolism and animal personality

Dr Vincent Careau (2013 - present)
Behavior, metabolism, thermal
sensitivity

Dr Bart Adriaenssens (2010-2011)
Metabolism and animal personality
Research Associates

Francesca Santostefano
Guppy personality, honest signals and mating effort
Students

David Mitchell (PhD 2015 - present) Evolutionary and developmental effects
of predation risk on behavior

Portia Sampson
(honours 2011)
Growth-personality links in crayfish, and
implications for fishing harvest

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Associate Professor In Behavioural Ecology
    Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Ecology
  • Zoology
  • Evolutionary biology

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Life and Environmental Sciences