People

Researchers

Andrea Fuller (PhD)
andrea.fuller@wits.ac.za

Andrea heads the team. She is a Professor in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand, and an Extraordinary Lecturer in the Department of Paraclinical Sciences at the University of Pretoria.

Leith Meyer (BVSc, PhD)
leith.meyerm@up.ac.za

Leith is a Professor in the Department of Paraclinical Sciences at the University of Pretoria, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Shane Maloney (PhD)
shane.maloney@uwa.edu.au

Shane is a Professor of Physiology in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia, Australia, and an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Edward Snelling (PhD)
edward.snelling@up.ac.za

Edward (Ned) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology in the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Anna Haw
annahaw@gmail.com

Anna is a Programme Manager at Conservation International, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand

Duncan Mitchell (PhD, DSc)
duncan.mitchell@wits.ac.za

Duncan is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia.

Vinicius Fonseca (PhD)
vinicius_fonseca86@hotmail.com

Vini is a Visiting Professor at Paraiba Universidade Federal, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand

Richard McFarland (PhD)
richard.mcfarland@wisc.edu

Richard is a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Benjamin Rey (PhD)
benjamin.rey@univ-lyon1.fr

Benjamin is a Research Assistant at the Biometry and Evolutionary Biology Laboratory at the University of Lyon, in France, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Wendy Panaino (PhD)
wpanaino@gmail.com

Wendy is a Research Consultant at Tswalu, and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Postdoctoral fellows

Keafon Jumbam (PhD)
keafon.jumbam@wits.ac.za

Keafon is originally from Cameroon, but has spent many years studying in South Africa. Her research interests range from the thermal tolerances of insects to the diet of bat-eared foxes. For her postdoctoral fellowship she will investigate how wild dogs are responding to climate change, working in collaboration with a big international team.

Tanja van de Ven (PhD)
tanja.vandeven@wits.ac.za

Tanja studied the responses of birds to heat during her PhD at the University of Cape Town, under the supervision of Susie Cunningham and Andrew McKechnie. Having lived in the Kalahari for much of that time, she extends her interests now to understand how mammals in hot, arid environments will cope with climate change.

Technical staff

Tapiwa Chinaka
tapiwa.chinaka@wits.ac.za

Tapiwa is a senior technician in the group.

Zipho Zwane
zipho.zwane@wits.ac.za

Zipho is a technician in the group.

Postgraduate students

Jessica Briner
jessbriner@gmail.com

PhD candidate: The effect of environmental change on core body temperature patterns in a free-living arid-zone bird, the white-browed sparrow-weaver.

Ashleigh Donaldson
acdonaldson@gmail.com

PhD candidate: Immobilization of free-living lions.

Walter Jubber
wrjubber@gmail.com

MSc candidate: The dietary ecology of meerkats in different age classes.

Valery Phakoago
valery.phakoago@gmail.com

PhD candidate: Physiological performance and space use of dispersing juvenile ground pangolins.

Chanel Rampartab
chanel.rampartab@gmail.com

PhD candidate: Impacts of climate change on small diurnal mammals in the Kalahari drylands.

Daniel Rossouw
danielrossouw2000@gmail.com

MSc candidate: Functional ecological of Temminck’s pangolins in the Kalahari.

Grace Warner
2525563@students.ac.za

MSc candidate: Characterizing microclimates as potential thermal buffers for reptiles, birds, and mammals in an arid-zone environment.

Recent alumni

Peter Buss
PhD (2017)

Melinda Boyers
PhD (2018)

Shaun D’Araujo
MSc (2016)

Stephanie de Lange
MSc (2016)

Hilary Lease
Postdoctoral fellow (2014)

Michael Mole
MSc (2016)

Tilly Molete

MSc (2021)

Davison Moyo

PhD (2017)

Ian Murray
Postdoctoral fellow (2015)

Wendy Panaino

PhD (2021)

Carmen Roberts

MSc (2019)

Maartin Strauss
PhD (2017)

Nora Weyer
PhD (2018)

Gareth Zeiler
PhD (2020)