Simon Clulow
Dr Simon Clulow is a conservation ecologist whose research spans the fields of reproduction, ecology, disease and behaviour, primarily on frogs and reptiles. He has conducted extensive work on the threats posed to frogs in Australia and New Guinea from the amphibian chytrid fungus and to the biota and ecosystems of northern Australia from the expanding distribution of the invasive cane toad. He is particularly interested in developing novel, modern approaches to mitigating impacts of seemingly unstoppable threatening processes (such as those above), including through genome storage, assisted reproduction and de-extinction. He received his PhD from the University of Newcastle in 2017 for studies investigating how environmental stressors can be used to mitigate the impacts of emerging wildlife diseases via the environmental mismatch hypothesis. In 2018 he was awarded a MQ Research Fellowship at Macquarie University to study the role of cognition and behaviour in ameliorating species invasions and develop reproductive technologies for reptiles. Most recently, he accepted a Senior Research Fellowship at the Centre for Conservation Ecology and Genomics at the University of Canberra.
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