Flavia Santamaria
Professor
Health, Medical and Applied Sciences
The University of Queensland
Australia
Biography
I have been an Adjunct Research Fellow at the School of Medical & Applied Sciences since 2015, but worked as a casual academic for the Office of Indigenous Engagement since 2014. I am a researcher with Koala Research Central Queensland, and am currently working on several projects including GIS mapping, vegetation and koala surveys. My PhD, carried out in Victoria at the former University of Ballarat (now Federation University), looked at the impact of translocation on the health, food selection and movement of thirty koalas moved from French Island to three forests around Ballarat. My research interests are: - Koala health: the impact of anthropogenic environmental changes on koala populations, particularly the potential pressure of environmental stress on the health of koalas (outbreaks of Chlamydia). - Koala diet: how long-term changes in structural diversity of partially cleared land, in particular the removal of middle storey vegetation, impacts on the nutrients of overstorey foliage.
Research Interest
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
