About Malte C. Ebach BSc (UoN), MSc (Sydney), PhD (Melbourne)
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Malte C. Ebach has published extensively on the history, theory and methodology of biological systematics, taxonomy and biogeography. His research has taken him to various institutions and universities worldwide, where he has generated a large network of colleagues across science, IT, bioinformatics and the philosophy of biology. So far, Malte has written over 80 scientific articles (H-Index = 14), including 3 text books, a series of popular science articles and opinion pieces for high ranking journals. He is an editor for the Journal of Biogeography, Zootaxa and Editor-in-Chief of the Species and Systematics book series, University of California Press as well as a reviewer for over 20 journals. In 2010, Malte and his co-author Lynne R. Parenti were recipients of the Smithsonian’s Secretary Prize for the text-book Comparative biogeography.
For up-to-date citation indicies please follow link to my Google Scholar profile [Link].
ACADEMIC CAREER
2010 - Senior Lecturer & ARC Future Fellow: School of BEES, UNSW
2008 - 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
2006 - 2008 Scientific Coordinator: Botanical Garden & Botanical Museum, FU Berlin
2005 - 2006 Postdoctoral Fellow: Laboratoire Informatique et Systématique, University of Paris
2004 Visiting Researcher: Institute of Botany, University of Copenhagen
2004 Visiting Fellow: Institute of Botany, University of Vienna
2004 - Scientific Associate: Buffalo State Museum, New York
2002 - 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, London
2000 - 2002 PhD: School of Botany, University of Melbourne
1997 - 1999 MSc: School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Editing
2010 - Editor: Zootaxa, Magnolia Press
2008 - Editor-in-Chief: Species & Systematics, University of California Press
2004 - Editor: Journal of Biogeography, Blackwell-Wiley
2007 - 2010 Co-editor: Biogeografia
2003 - 2005 Editor: The Systematist: Newsletter of the Systematics Association, London
Societies
2011 - Member: The International Biogeography Society.
2007 - 2010 Member: Taxonomic Database Working Group (TDWG).
2006 – 2010 President: Systematic and Evolutionary Biogeographical Association (SEBA)
2001 - Member: Willi Hennig Society.
2003 – 2006 Council member: The Systematics Association, London
1997 - Member: Geological Society of Australia (Association of Australasian Palaeontologists)
TEACHING
GEOS3017 Life on a Dynamic Earth (Convenor) UNSW
BIOS3221 Assembling the Tree of Life (Convenor Prof. Gerry Cassis) UNSW
BIOS2031 Invertebrate Zoology (Convenor A/Prof. Alistair Poore) UNSW
BIZ5714 Comparative Biogeography (with Prof. Marcelo de Carvalho) University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
CURRENT STUDENTS
Tegan Vanderlaan (PhD candiate - Co-supervisors Prof. Gerry Cassis UNSW and Dr. John R. Paterson UNE)
Location: UNSW, Biological Sciences (D26), Room 644
Project: Early Carboniferous trilobite systematics and biogeography
Co-Supervised Students
Michael Elias (PhD Candiate@UNSW - Supervisor Prof. Gerry Cassis UNSW)
Location: UNSW, Mathews (F23), Room 1311
Project: Systematic and phylogenetic revision of the Cyrtorhinus species complex
Marina Cheng (PhD Candiate@UNSW - Supervisor Prof. Gerry Cassis UNSW)
Location: UNSW, Mathews (F23), Room 1311
Project: Systematic and phylogenetic revision of true bugs
Giovanni di Virgilio (PhD Candiate@UNSW - Supervisor Dr. Shawn Laffan UNSW)
Location: UNSW, BioSci (D26), Room 641
Project: Quantifying the bioregionalisation of terrestrial and marine Australian biota over multiple spatial scales
