Rate My Professor Charlie Huveneers

Professor Charlie Huveneers is the Matthew Flinders Professor in the College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University. He serves as Director of the Flinders University Marine and Coastal Research Consortium and leads the Southern Shark Ecology Group. His research examines the ecology and population status of sharks and rays, their vulnerability, interactions with humans, and related public perceptions, with a focus on positive and negative shark-human interactions, wildlife tourism effects, and shark bite mitigation measures. He obtained a PhD in Environmental Science from Macquarie University in 2007, with a thesis on the ecology and biology of wobbegong sharks in relation to the commercial fishery in New South Wales, Australia. Prior to that, he completed a BSc (Hons.) in Oceanography with Marine Biology at the University of Southampton in 2002. After his PhD, he co-ran the Animal Tracking Facility of the Integrated Marine Observing System program, establishing a national network of acoustic receivers. He joined Flinders University in 2009 through a joint position with SARDI – Aquatic Sciences as a shark ecologist and has been a full-time academic at Flinders since 2014.