Associate Professor Luciana Moller

I am an Associate Professor of Cetacean Ecology 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.