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Marie Elizabeth Herberstein

Professor Marie Herberstein is a behavioural ecologist at Macquarie University. Her educational background started with a B.Sc. at the University of Sydney, followed by an Honors component at the University of New South Wales, before undertaking a PhD at the University of Vienna, which culminated at the end of 1995.

Professor Herberstein has conduced research spanning across evolutionary biology, zoology and ecology. Her research generally focuses the spider, a creature she advocates as a great subject for behavioural and ecological research. Much of her research and teachings have focused on the sexual customs and behavioural tendencies of multiple types of arachnids. Professor Herberstein is the sole editor of the anthology book Spider Behaviour: Flexibility and Versatility, published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

She is currently serving as the Head of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University.

Herberstein, M E, 2011. Spider Behaviour: Flexibility and Versatility. 1st ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.