ProfessorMarcel Klaassen

Associate Head of School, Waurn Ponds

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

  • Associate Head of School, Waurn Ponds
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Deakin Centre for Marine Science
  • +61 3 522 72464 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

- Behaviour
- Biology
- Conservation
- Disease
- Ecology
- Environment and environmental issues
- Migration
- Science
- Wildlife

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE 205: vertebrate structure and function
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE 354: disease ecology and epidemiology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Evaluating the risk of transmissions of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses between poultry and wild birds in an Australian context
    Emily Amanda Gibson - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Cooperation, coordination and communication between partners in avian species
    Clara Gabrielle Claude A. M. Borrel - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Determinants of Avian Shape-shifting Responses to Climate Change
    Jake Aaron Tyers - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Impacts of anthropogenic activities on threatened resident and migratory shorebirds.
    Annie Broadway - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Infectious Bursal Disease Virus in Australia: 1 Improved Diagnostics and Surveillance
    Jesse Thomas - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Elucidating the movement and population dynamics of Stubble Quail through tracking
    Jamie Aaron Bolam - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Ecological Surveillance of Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU) in Urban Possums and Development of a CRISPR-SHERLOCK MU Assay
    Pranab Paul - School of Medicine
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Does size matter? Sex differences in white-faced storm petrels' ecology
    Megan Underwood - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The apparent paradox of colour variation in aposematic poison frogs
    Bibiana Rojas Zuluaga - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2012
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Estimatig the evolutionary link between food detection and mate choice
    Gemma Cole - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Challenges within the annual cycle of long-distance migratory waders along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
    Yaara Aharon-Rotman - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Constraints and strategies of long-distance migratory shorebirds along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
    Meijuan Zhao - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Avian influenza virus dynamics in Australian wild birds
    Marta Ferenczi - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Wildlife infectious disease dynamics in the context of seasonality and bird migration
    Simeon Lisovski - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 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
    Joint effects of selective mating and ecology on the persistence of polymorphism and the divergence of sexually selected traits
    Aditya Vivek Ponkshe - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Who is the culprit: ecology and epidemiology of Avian Influenza at the wildlife-poultry interface in Bangladesh
    Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Host-pathogen and host-microbe interactions in migratory animals and their implications for pathogen dispersal
    Alice Risely - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Immune Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Factors in Tasmanian Devils
    Nynke Raven - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Weather and climate change effects on avian migrants
    Batbayar Galtbalt - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    GPS-behaviour trackers and their ecological application
    Hui Bruce Yu - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Evolutionary Ecology and Epidemiology of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza in Bangladesh
    Ariful Islam - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Are Pollutants and Emerging Diseases Endangering a Global Migratory Flyway?
    Tobias Alexander Ross - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2023