Marcus Michelangeli

• Lecturer, Environmental Sustainability and Management, Griffith University

I am a newly appointed lecturer in the School of Environment and Science (August 2024). My research explores how wildlife adapt to rapid environmental change, with a focus on the emerging threats posed by synthetic and psychoactive chemical pollution. I am particularly interested in how these contaminants (and other environmental stressors) reshape interactions within and between species, driving changes in behavioural individuality and ecosystem dynamics. My goal is to uncover how changes to these ecological interactions affect not just individual survival and reproduction, but also the structure of populations and communties.

I am passionate about harnessing cutting-edge research methods such as remote animal tracking and computer automation to study animal behaviours and movement across diverse contexts. I am also intrested in using tools in metascience to synthesise and integrate existing knowledge in ecology and ecotoxicology, making it more accessible to environmental practitioners. By merging insights from controlled experiments, meta-analyses, and field observations, I hope to provide a holistic understanding of animal adaptation in human-altered environments and what this means for the integrity of ecological systems into the future.

• –present Lecturer, Environmental Sustainability and Management, Griffith University

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