Chief Investigator
Cynthia Riginos is an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland. She is an evolutionary biologist with wide-ranging interests spanning population genomics, land & seascape genetics, molecular ecology, phylogeography, biogeography, speciation, hybridisation, invasive species, and conservation. Overall, her research seeks to understand how marine biodiversity is created, where that biodiversity has accumulated, and how this knowledge can be used preserve biodiversity and the processes that create it in a changing world. Cynthia is especially fond of reef fishes, molluscs, and corals but easily distracted by other taxa as well. She is an associate editor for Molecular Ecology, the Journal of Biogeography, and Frontiers in Biogeography and a founding member of the Diversity in the Indo-Pacific Network (DIPnet), a consortium seeking to promote open data exchange and collaboration among genetic research groups and students working in the Indo-Pacific region. Cynthia has been at UQ since 2006 and previously held an endowed postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Evolution & Comparative Genomics at Duke University. Her PhD (2000) and Master’s (1998) degrees are both from the University of Arizona in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
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Post docs
Iva Popovic
Evolutionary genomics in a marine global invader
Email: iva.popovic@uqconnect.edu.au
Josh Thia 
Dimensions of genotypic and phenotypic divergence in marine metapopulations: space, time, and ontogeny
Email: joshua.thia@uq.net.au
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PhD students
Dean Blower 
Molecular ecology of sharks with emphasis on effective population size estimation and its applications in fisheries and conservation
Supervisors: Riginos & Ovenden
Email: dean.blower@uqconnect.edu.au
Kimberley Dunbar 
Supervisors: Riginos & Pandolfi
Email: kimberley.dunbar@uq.net.au
Katharine Prata
Delineating hard coral population structure in relation to the seascape
Supervisors: Riginos & Bongaerts
Email: k.prata@uq.net.au
Sinan-Saleh Kassam
Characterizing the cryptic species complex in Australia using genotype, phenotype, and environment
Supervisors: Riginos & Ortiz-Barrientos
Email: s.kassam@uqconnect.edu.au
Vhon Garcia
Biogeography of Philippine marine snakes
Supervisors: Riginos & Cook
Email: vhon.garcia@uqconnect.edu.au
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Lab alumni
Post-docs
Thomas Huelsken
Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2010-2011)
Lisa Pope
UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2012-2014)
Eric Treml
Lecturer at Deakin University
World Wildlife Foundation Fuller Fellow, ARC Fellow (2007-2011)
PhD students
Pim Bongaerts (Primary supervisor: Hoegh-Guldberg), PhD 2010 – Curator, California Academy of Sciences
Carmen da Silva (Primary supervisor: Wilson), PhD 2019 – Endeavour Fellow
Jenny Giles, PhD 2014 – Shark Biologist and Wildlife Forensic Scientist
James Hereward (Primary supervisor: Gimme Walter), PhD 2013– Research Associate, University of Queensland
Jude Keyse, PhD 2015 – Inala State High School
Libby Liggins, PhD 2014 – Senior Lecturer, Massey University
Andrew Mather, PhD 2016 – Research Associate, University of Queensland
Ambrocio (Din) Matias, PhD 2019 – Assistant Professor, University of Philippines Diliman
Iva Popovic, PhD 2019 – Research Associate, University of Queensland
Danielle Shanahan (Primary supervisor: Possingham), PhD 2010
Joshua Thia (Supervisors: Riginos & McGuigan), PhD 2019 – Research Associate, University of Queensland
MS students
Adam Dinsdale (Primary supervisor: Buckley), MS 2012
Kristin Douglas, MS 2008
Honours students
Jenny Evans, 2018
Lucie Malard, 2014
Lachlan Gleeson, 2012
Gabriel Dominguez, 2011
Carrie Sims, 2011
Carla Meers, 2010
Andrew Mather, 2009
Anna Mirams, 2009
Janne Torkkola, 2009
Jolene Wong, 2008
Gwen David, 2007