DrSteph Gardner

Dr Stephanie Gardner is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, specialising in marine microbial ecology. Her research interests span tropical and temperate reef ecosystems, and more recently, Antarctic benthic ecology.

Steph completed her undergraduate degrees and in Business and Science at the University of Technology Sydney, before doing marine conservation work in The Seychelles. After completing her PhD (in Marine Biology) at UTS, she moved to Barcelona, Spain where she worked as an Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC). Steph then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.