Rate My Professor Jack Brand

Jack Andrew Brand is a Researcher in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He completed a Bachelor of Science with first-class honours in Neuroscience at the University of New South Wales and earned a PhD in Ecology and Evolution from Monash University in 2023. His doctoral work examined the environmental drivers of animal behaviour under the supervision of Professor Bob Wong.

Brand’s research focuses on how human-driven environmental changes, including aquatic pollution from pharmaceuticals and other contaminants, influence the behaviour, movement, and migration of fish populations. He integrates field experiments, laboratory studies, long-term datasets, and biotelemetry with quantitative methods to assess impacts on individual traits and population outcomes. He serves as a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, and as Senior Data Editor for Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Brand also contributes to teaching in the graduate course Scientific Writing at SLU. His recent publications include studies on cocaine pollution altering Atlantic salmon movement and pharmaceutical pollution affecting salmon migration, both published in 2025 and 2026.