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University of New South Wales

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5.08/20/2025

Inspires curiosity and a thirst for knowledge.

4.05/21/2025

Makes learning a joyful experience.

5.04/30/2025

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Professor Alistair Poore is Head of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences in the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales, a position he has held since 2018. He joined UNSW in 2001 following postdoctoral work at Lund University in Sweden (1999-2000) and earned his PhD from UNSW in 1999 on the ecology and evolution of host plant use in herbivorous marine amphipods, and BSc (Hons) from Monash University in 1992. Poore's research expertise lies in ecology and evolutionary biology of coastal marine ecosystems, encompassing the impacts of herbivores on algal and seagrass communities, evolution of host choice in marine herbivores such as amphipods, responses of marine organisms to human impacts including urbanisation, ocean warming and acidification, adaptation to environmental stress, trophic interactions, habitat restoration, and leveraging citizen science for monitoring biodiversity and reef health. He contributes to the Centre for Marine Science and Innovation and the Evolution & Ecology Research Centre.