Associate Professor Diana Fisher

Researcher biography
We are recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in quantitative evolutionary ecology. Full-time, Fixed-term research-focused academic level A position until 31 March 2026. Applications close 6 September 2023 at 11.00pm AEST (R-28342) Postdoc life history evolution
We are recruiting a PhD student to investigate the evolution of semelparity in male animals. Fully-funded scholarship and project funding. Apply before the end of October PhD evolution of semelparity in male animals
Principal Research Fellow / Deputy Academic Director UQ Hidden Vale Research Station/ Associate Professor, School of the Environment / Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, UQ. Jan 2022- Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Qld. January 2019
UQ Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. Investigating conservation and life history evolution of mammals in Australia and Melanesia. January 2016 – December 2018.
ARC Future Fellow / Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. Investigating life history evolution, extinction and conservation ecology of carnivorous marsupials. January 2012 – December 2015.
ARC Australian Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. Investigating causes of animal extinction and rediscovery, detection of extinction and trajectories of decline in mammals with respect to the spread of invasive predators. January 2007 – December 2011.
Natural Heritage Trust, federal Department of Environment and Heritage, Canberra. Collating published data on threats to nationally endangered vertebrates under the EPBC Act, for the Species Profiles And Threats database. Part time, January- December 2006.
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra. Testing hypotheses to explain the evolution of polyandry, using antechinuses. April 2002 to February 2006 (maternity leave December 2004 – October 2005).
Royal Society Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen. Investigating behavioural mechanisms of density-dependent immigration and implications for population dynamics in the water vole. Jan 2000 - April 2001 (maternity leave April 2001 – April 2002).
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland. Ecological correlates of marsupial life histories, behaviour and social organisation. 1999 - 2000.
PhD. The Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, supervised by Professor Craig Moritz and Dr Anne Goldizen: Behavioural ecology and demography of the bridled nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata 1994 - 1998.