Prof Ary Hoffmann

Prof Ary Hoffmann completed his undergraduate education at the University of Queensland and Monash Universities, graduating with a BSc(Hons) in 1980. He then undertook PhD at La Trobe with Peter Parsons, graduating in 1984. Ary completed a postdoc at UC Davis with Michael Turelli before returning to La Trobe where he started as a Lecturer and attained a personal Chair in 1998. Ary recieved a Federation Fellowship in 2005 to conduct research at the University of Melbourne.

Ary is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Dr Michael Kearney

Dr Michael Kearney completed his undergraduate studies in Botany and Zoology at Monash University where he obtained a BSc(Honours) in 1998. Michael then obtained his PhD in Zoology at the University of Sydney under the guidance of Prof Richard Shine in 2004. This included a one year Fulbright fellowship the USA where he collaborated with Prof Kellar Autumn at Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon, and Prof Warren Porter at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr Kearney then took up an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research (CESAR) from 2004-2006. Michael joined the Zoology Department as a lecturer in 2007.