Dr Hannah Rowland BSc, PhD

Dr Hannah Rowland obtained her BSc (Hons) Zoology at the University of Liverpool, and was awarded a PhD, entitled The visual and behavioural ecology of countershading and other defences, in November 2007 under the supervision of Mike Speed (University of Liverpool). Her thesis was awarded two prizes: the Thomas Henry Huxley award from the Zoological Society of London (For best Zoology thesis in UK), and the Royal Entomological Society Wallace award (for best Entomology thesis in World).

She remained at Liverpool for her first postdoc, where she investigated the role of wild and domestic bird feeding decisions on the alternative causal mechanisms by which mimicry of warning signals may have evolved. She recently completed a NERC-funded postdoctoral research associate at the University of Glasgow, where she investigated the evolution of masquerade, in which prey mimic the visual appearance of inanimate objects such as twigs and leaves. Findings from her studies have been published in Nature, Science, PNAS, Behavioural Ecology, and Ecology Letters.

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