Mark Wong

Dr Mark Wong is a Forrest Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at UWA, a Visiting Scientist at CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, and a National Geographic Explorer. Dr Wong's interests lie in community and invasion ecology. His research uses trait-based approaches to understand the causes and consequences of changing biodiversity, especially for insects and their kin. Dr Wong previously completed a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, where he investigated global trends in terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity. Prior to that he completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford on a prestigious Clarendon Scholarship, where his research on the ecology of ant invasions in the tropics was supported by funding from the National Geographic Society and a Varley Gradwell Fellowship. Dr Wong serves on the editorial boards of the journals Insect Conservation and Diversity, Asian Myrmecology and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.