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Email

d.stuart-fox@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor (Env Science/Terrestrial Ecol)
School of BioSciences
Education
PhD
The University of Queensland
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
The University of Queensland
Bachelors Degree
The University of Queensland
ORCID

0000-0003-3362-1412

Prof Devi Stuart-Fox

Professor (Env Science/Terrestrial Ecol)
School of BioSciences

169 Scholarly works
29 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    A new ultrafast movement enables escape at low temperature
    DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-07650-7
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Obituary: Mark Elgar
    DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araf111
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Prey movement, size, and glossiness interact to impact praying mantid attack behaviors
    DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araf107
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Body size rather than reflectivity explains thermal constraints on colour variation in an aposematic jewel bug
    DOI: 10.1007/s10682-025-10344-5
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Bioinspired Analogues of Nature's Structurally Coloured Materials
  • 2020

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Crossing the Biology Meso-Nanoscale Divide by Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • 2019

    Research Grant

    Discovering Nature's Photonic Devices to Control Light and Heat
Devi Stuart-Fox

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2017
Woodward Medal in Science and Technology University of Melbourne
2016
Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin, Invited Fellowswhip Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2013
L’Oreal-UNESCO Special Fellowship ‘in the footsteps of Marie Curie’ L’Oreal-UNESCO
2010
Dean’s Award in Research Excellence Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Infrared camouflage in leaf-sitting frogs: A cautionary tale on adaptive convergence
    DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0771
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Spatial preferences influence associations between magnitude and space in honey bees
    DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.123054
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Polarization and reflectance are linked to climate, size and mechanistic constraints in a group of scarab beetles
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-80325-1
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Colour polymorphism is prevalent on islands but shows no association with range size in web-building spiders
    DOI: 10.1093/jeb/voae118
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Fitness effects of symbiotic relationships between arthropod predators: Synergy in a three-way spider symbiosis
    DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14575
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Red vision in animals is broadly associated with lighting environment but not types of visual task
    DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10899

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2022

    Research grants (international)

    New Ways to Generate Color: Light Manipulation by Crystal-Forming Pigments
  • 2025

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Avichal Tatu Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - Ecological Society of Australia

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