Naomi completed a BSc(Hons) at ANU and a PhD at the University of Cambridge. She continued her research in Cambridge with a Junior College Fellowship at Peterhouse (1995-1999), and then moved to ANU to take up an ARC Australian Post-doctoral Fellowship. She was awarded two subsequent ARC Fellowships (Australian Research Fellowship 2004-2010, Australian Research Fellowship 2011-2015) and was appointed to a University lectureship in 2014 and promoted to Professor in 2017.

I am interested in a wide range of subjects within the fields of behavioural and evolutionary ecology, including breeding systems, brood parasitism, coevolution, signal evolution and communication. Current projects include:

• Coevolution between cuckoos and their hosts
• The impact of climate change on inter-specific interactions
• The evolution and functional significance of bird song
• The impact of extreme climatic events on breeding biology
• The ecology and conservation of forty-spotted pardalotes
• The ecology and evolution of female competitive traits

See this link for our recent paper about coevolution between cuckoos and hosts:

https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-1897/full

PhD (University of Cambridge)