ProfessorCraig Sherman

Associate Head of School (Research and Industry Engagement)

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Deakin Centre for Marine Science

  • Associate Head of School (Research and Industry Engagement)
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Deakin Centre for Marine Science
  • +61 3 522 71406 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Evolutionary Biology, Population Genetics; Marine Ecology

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    Ecological and Conservation Genetics (SLE341 - unit chair)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    Marine Biology (SLE238)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    Coastal Processes (SLE108)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    plus contribution towards
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    Professional Practice (SLE301)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    Research Project (SLE 390)
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Our connected coasts: connectivity, stress, and marine incursions throughout the aquaculture seascape of New Zealand.
    Benjamin Robert Knight - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Identifying signatures of climate adaptation in silver banksia, Banksia marginata
    Madeline Toomey - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Developing Tools and Knowledge for Seagrass Restoration in Western Port, Victoria, Australia
    Elizabeth Keehner - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Multi-Scale Approaches to Seagrass Restoration and Site Suitability
    Lany Callahan - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The effects of warming and galloprovincialis hybridisation on Mytilus planulatus
    Alexander Albert Berry - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
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    Conservation genomics of the short-finned eel (Anguilla australis).
    Harrison Coleman - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Stakeholders Perceptions on Improving the Management of Seagrass Ecosystem Through a Tourism Approach
    Husen Rifai - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Establishing The Baseline for Zostera Muelleri Restoration: Distribution, Connectivity, and Seed Viability.
    Matthew Souza - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Embedding Social Value in Coastal Ecosystem Finance and Benefit Governance
    Robyn Barakalla - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Forensic Applications of Human eDNA: Assessing Source, Persistence, and Detection in Aquatic Environments
    Catriona Liddle - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mangrove Rehabilitation as a Nature-based Climate Solution (NbCS): Assessing Carbon Dynamics and Biodiversity
    Mariska Kusumaningtyas - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Seed Traits, Germination Triggers, and Sediment Treatments for Seagrass Restoration
    Abigail Wookey - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Gene flow in East Antarctic echinoderms and resilience to climate change
    Jacob Van Oosterom - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Phenotypic and genetic variation of non-native common starling, Sturnus vulgaris
    Adam Cardilini - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Evolutionary Biology of the Invasive Northern Pacific Seastar, Asterias amurensis
    Mark Richardson - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2015
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    Novel therapeutics for complex diseases from genome-wide association data
    Mani Grover - School of Medicine - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Sex-ratio dynamics in three species of resident shorebird
    Daniel Lees - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Characterisation of biological signalling molecules from complex seawater matrices
    Jake Penny - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Long-term exposure to elevated temperature in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
    Jared John Tromp - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2018