ProfessorCatherine Herbert

Catherine completed her PhD in Wildlife Management at Macquarie University in 2003, where she continued as a postdoctoral researcher until the end of 2004. In 2005 she was awarded an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (Industry) at the University of NSW for research on the non-lethal control of overabundant marsupial populations in Australia. In 2008 she accepted a continuing appointment as Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy in the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011. During her time at the University of Sydney she have continued her research on the biology and management of overabundant marsupial populations, and has progressively expanded her teaching portfolio within the field of wildlife biology and management. Catherine has received numerous teaching awards and was promoted to Associate Professor, within the newly formed School of Life and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science), in 2018. She was further promoted to Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the end of 2024.