AOC 2025 Plenary Speakers

We are excited to announce the following plenary speakers will be presenting at AOC 2025.

 

Associate Professor Kristal Cain

Te Kura Mātauranga Koiora, School of Biological Sciences
Waipapa Taumata Rau, The University of Auckland

Kristal grew-up chasing critters in the deep woods and creeks of East Texas. She completed a BSc in Wildlife Biology at Texas A&M and then worked as a wildlife biologist before returning to complete her PhD at Indiana University. She moved to Australian National University for her postdoc and in 2016, she joined the University of Auckland. Her research group aims to understand why animals are so varied in their behaviour and appearance and how complex social traits evolve, with a particular interest in testing entrenched assumptions and exploring new questions.

 

 

Professor Richard Fuller

School of the Environment
The University of Queensland

Richad studies how people have affected the natural world around them, and how some of their destructive effects can best be reversed. His research group works on pure and applied topic in biodiversity and conservation, with a strong emphasis on building collaborative conservation to save migratory species. He is also an incurable birder. See www.fullerlab.org

 

Dr Dejan Stojanovic

Fenner School of Environment and Society
The Australian National University

Dejan Stojanovic is a conservation biologist, whose research focuses on the conservation and management of threatened species and their habitat, with a focus on how species cope with habitat loss. He has a particular interest in parrots, and his PhD research led to the discovery of severe predation by sugar gliders on endangered Swift Parrots. He has also worked on the conservation and breeding biology of Orange-bellied Parrots and Carnaby’s Cockatoos.