Prospective students

We are happy to hear from potential masters or PhD students interested in studying behavioural ecology from a broad evolutionary perspective. You can decide if you want to work with fieldwork, phylogenetic/comparative analyses, meta-analyses or a combination of everything. I am keen to work with enthusiastic and curious students that want to increase our understanding of the natural world. If this sounds like you contact me at iliana.medina@unimelb.edu.au. There are funding opportunities for competitive students at University of Melbourne.

** Applications are open for PhD programs 2026 ** If you are interested in the macroevolution of anti predator strategies in insects, analysing large datasets on invasive species, send me an e-mail with your transcripts (non-official is fine), CV and research interests.

**Applications are open for MSc students 2026** If you are interested in nest evolution, comparative analyses to study animal architecture, or laboratory experiments on animals with warning signals, please send me an e-mail with your transcripts and research interests.

Postdocs

The University of Melbourne offers McKenzie Research Fellowships and there are other sources like the human frontiers program or ARC funded postdocs, I am keen to host and establish collaborations with early career researchers all over the world.