Associate ProfessorMads Thomsen

Associate Professor

School of Biological Sciences

  • Associate Professor
    School of Biological Sciences
  • +6433695208 (Work)
  • Julius von Haast 233

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Biodiversity across stress gradients in the Avon Heathcote Estuary
    1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2027
    Wang, Zhoug
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Facilitation of animals by the invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida
    1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2027
    Bala, Sindhu
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Arctic marine facilitation cascades
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2028
    Lecointe, Etienne
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Biodiversity along reef-seagrass ecotones
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2026
    Jones, Sophie
  • TEACHING MENTORSHIP
    Brachwitz, Antonia
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2026
    Estuarine biodiversity and sampling methods
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Control mechanism of the invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2028
    Bishop, Danielle
  • TEACHING MENTORSHIP
    Ellis-Stanley, Archie
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2026
    Marine ecosystem data analysis
  • TEACHING MENTORSHIP
    Mendelsohn, Lennard
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2026
    Estuarine field ecology
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Seaweed associated epibiota
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2027
    Iyagbaye, Rich
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Impacts of sediments and heatwaves on benthic community structures
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2025
    Bishop, Danielle
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Restoration of marine forests
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026
    Bentley, Paige
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Early life stage biology of Hormosira banksii
    1 Sep 2022 - 1 Sep 2023
    Edmunds, Nicolette
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Network analysis of marine benthic foundation species
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
    Gillis, Anthony
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Ecology of Seagrass in New Zealand
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2025
    Clemente, Ken
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Valuing coastal blue-green infrastructure: Development of a dune system assessment methodology, Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
    Thompson, Katie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Associations between estuarine foundation species and their effect on biodiversity across latitudes and seasons
    1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2021
    Gerber, Derek
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Impacts of marine heatwaves on coastal ecosystems
    1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023
    Montie, Shinae
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Kelp our Climate - Seaweed growth rates in the context of Blue Carbon opportunities
    1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    Ross, Finn
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The use of seagrass (Zostera muelleri) habitat types by seagrass communities in New Zealand
    1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2021
    Pullen, Mikaela
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Flounders in seagrass beds
    1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
    Moser, Averill
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Remote sensing of Southern Ocean phytoplankton blooms in a warming world
    1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
    Montie, Shinae
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Distribution of the invasive seaweed Undaria pinnatifida in Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand, and its interactions with native mussel reef communities
    1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2018
    Brockerhoff, 13 David
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Interaction between invertebrates and bull kelp on an earthquake-disturbed coastline
    23 Feb 2016 - 21 Jan 2018
    Mondardini, Luca
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Identifying the effects of morphological variation in Caulerpa species on invertebrate assemblages from Rottnest Island, WA
    1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2017
    Bi, Yu
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Competition or Facilitation between Coexisting Foundation Species, with Implications for Biodiversity and Conservation
    1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2019
    Foster, Travis