Rate My Professor Isabella Reeves

Isabella Reeves is a Research Associate in Marine Megafauna in the College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University. She completed a Bachelor of Science (Marine Biology) with Honours and a PhD at Flinders University. Her doctoral thesis examined the evolutionary ecology of Australasian killer whales (Orcinus orca) using a multidisciplinary approach that incorporated genomic and biochemical tools. Reeves previously served as a PhD candidate focused on conservation genomics and evolutionary ecology, with a specialization in marine wildlife genomes, particularly cetaceans. She is now a postdoctoral researcher in predator evolutionary ecology. Reeves has received the 2024 Best Student Paper Award and the 2025 HDR Student Research Impact Prize. Her work investigates ecological and evolutionary processes shaping killer whale populations and includes research on interactions between killer whales and white sharks.