Matthew R. Nitschke
Rutherford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow
Victoria University of Wellington
C3, University of Technology Sydney
Biography
At present I am a Rutherford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand (2019-2021), and am based at the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. I am also a member of the Future Reefs team within the Climate Change Cluster (C3), at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. My research interests relate to all things coral reefs, from broad-scale ecology through to the functioning of single cells. I specialise in the phylogenetic diversity and functioning of coral symbionts, most notably of the dinoflagellate family Symbiodiniaceae. In my research I leverage next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, bio-optical probes and models, and photogrammetry.
Interests
- Coral reefs
- Symbiosis
- Molecular ecology
- Bioinformatics
- Photophysiology
- Optical modeling
Education
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PhD, 2015
The University of Queensland
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Master of Marine Conservation, 2010
Victoria University of Wellington
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BSc, Major in Marine Biology, 2008
Victoria University of Wellington
