Rate My Professor Robert Heinsohn

Professor Robert Heinsohn is a Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University. He holds a BSc (Hons) and a PhD from ANU, awarded in 1990. His primary research interests lie in conservation biology and evolutionary ecology of vertebrates, with a focus on birds. Professor Heinsohn’s early research as an honours and PhD student at ANU examined the behavioural ecology of cooperatively breeding bird species. He completed an NSF post-doctoral fellowship based at the University of Minnesota, conducting field research on lions in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. Upon returning to Australia, he held an ARC Post-doctoral Fellowship and an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, establishing long-term field studies on the behavioural ecology and conservation biology of Eclectus parrots and palm cockatoos on Cape York Peninsula and in Papua New Guinea.