Associate Professor Luciana Moller

Associate Professor

College of Science and Engineering

place Biological Sciences
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

I am an Associate Professor of Marine Biology at the College of Science and Engineering, where I serve as the Course Coordinator for the BSc in Marine Biology and as the Higher Degree Advisor for the Natural Sciences Program. Additionally, I lead research in the Cetacean Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution Lab and serve as the Deputy Head of the Molecular Ecology Lab at Flinders University. I am also a member of the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group.

Between 2003 and 2008, I held a Research Fellow position at Macquarie University in Sydney, where I managed long-term projects focused on the behavioural and molecular ecology of marine mammals. Prior to that, I was a Research Associate at Yale University in 2002-03. I earned my PhD in Environmental Studies from Macquarie University in 2001 and began my research career as a Fellow at the Rio Grande Oceanographic Museum. My academic journey started with a BSc in Oceanography, specializing in Renewable Resources, which I received from Rio Grande University in Brazil in 1993.

Qualifications
  • PhD., Environmental Sciences (Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University): 2001.
  • B.Sc., Oceanography, Specialisation in Renewable Resources (University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil): 1993.
Key responsibilities
  • Course Coordinator: BSc (Marine Biology) 
  • Higher Degree Advisor (Natural Sciences)
  • Research Leader: Cetacean Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution Lab
  • Deputy Head: Molecular Ecology Lab
Teaching interests

My teaching interests encompass marine biology, marine vertebrates, wildlife behaviour and ecology—especially in mammals—molecular ecology, and marine conservation.

Topic coordinator
SERC2700 Research Project 1
BIOL1301 Introduction to Marine Biology
SERC3700 Research Project 2
Topic lecturer
BIOL1301 Introduction to Marine Biology
BIOL3722 Conservation and Ecological Genetics
SERC3700 Research Project 2
BIOL3751 Biology of Marine Mammals, Birds and Reptiles
SERC2700 Research Project 1
Expert for media contact
Behaviour
DNA studies
Ecology
Mammals
Marine science
Wildlife
Dolphins and whales:
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Media expertise
  • Behaviour
  • DNA studies
  • Ecology
  • Mammals
  • Marine science
  • Wildlife
Interests
  • Dolphins and whales: