Rate My Professor Naomi Langmore

Naomi Langmore is a Professor in the Division of Ecology and Evolution at the Australian National University. She completed a BSc(Hons) at ANU and a PhD at the University of Cambridge. She held a Junior College Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge from 1995 to 1999, followed by an ARC Australian Post-doctoral Fellowship at ANU. She subsequently received ARC Australian Research Fellowships for the periods 2004-2010 and 2011-2015. In 2014 she was appointed to a University lectureship and was promoted to Professor in 2017.

Her research focuses on behavioural and evolutionary ecology, with particular interests in breeding systems, brood parasitism, coevolution, signal evolution and communication. Key projects have examined coevolution between cuckoos and their hosts, the impact of climate change on inter-specific interactions, the evolution of bird song, and the ecology and conservation of species such as the forty-spotted pardalote. Notable publications include work in Nature (2003) on coevolutionary arms races, Science (2007) on cooperative breeding, and a 2024 Science paper on coevolution driving speciation in brood-parasitic cuckoos. She has received the BirdLife Australia D.L. Serventy Medal in 2019 along with multiple ARC Discovery Grants and other research funding. She leads the Langmore Group on avian evolutionary and behavioural ecology.