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ProfessorXimena Nelson

Associate Head of School

School of Biological Sciences

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  • Associate Head of School
    School of Biological Sciences
  • Professor
    School of Biological Sciences
  • +6433695198 (Work)
  • Julius von Haast 336

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

Animal Behaviour and Neurophysiology courses

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Planning in spiders
    1 Feb 2025 - 29 Feb 2028
    Francesco, Cannone
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Kea conservation measures
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2027
    Sims Johns, Jessie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Using baits to reduce kea mortality
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2026
    Gerard-Pearse, Emily
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Joy in parrots
    1 Feb 2024 - 1 Feb 2026
    Baird, Robert
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Planning in spiders
    1 Feb 2024 - 1 Feb 2026
    Patrick, Marshall
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Principles of Animal Physiology (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2024
    BIOL250
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  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Kea inferential behaviour
    1 Dec 2023 - 1 Dec 2024
    Prokshina, Anisiia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Probabilistic inference in kea
    1 Oct 2023 - 1 Oct 2026
    Eriksen, Mathilde
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Principles of Animal Physiology (opens in a new tab)⁠
    6 Mar 2023 - 20 Jun 2025
    BIOL250
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  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Good vibes in Passion vine hoppers
    1 May 2022 - 1 May 2025
    MacDougall, Mark
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Insights into the behaviours of Scolypopa australis (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae)
    1 Feb 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    Borthwick_Taylor, Greer
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Use of Photo-ID to investigate the ecology of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx)
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
    Granham, Alexander
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Behaviour and taxonomy of the Marpissa jumping spider group
    1 Aug 2020 - 31 Mar 2025
    Leggett, Marlene
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A mechanistic approach to vigilance decrement in jumping spiders
    1 Mar 2020
    Humphrey, Bonnie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Home range size of the New Zealand falcon | kārearea
    1 Feb 2020 - 1 Feb 2022
    van Eyndhoven, Fleur
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Spider visual processing algorithms
    1 Feb 2020
    Moser, Averill
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Vision and olfaction in kea parrots
    1 Feb 2020
    Chaplin, Samuel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Moth abundance declines 1961-2020 in a New Zealand montane grassland
    1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2022
    Elizabeth, de Jong
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Understanding behavioural and dietary variations between populations of endangered kea (Nestor notabilis) for conservation management
    1 Sep 2018
    McLean, Lydia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Jumping spider navigational abilty
    1 Feb 2017 - 1 Feb 2020
    Aguilar-Arguello, Samuel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The effects of visual priming on retinal scanning motion in Marpissa marina, an endemic New Zealand jumping spider
    1 Feb 2016 - 1 Feb 2018
    Scott, Lauren
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Acoustic detection unwanted organisms in import pathways
    1 Jan 2016 - 1 Jan 2019
    Bedoya, C
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Navigation in jumping spiders
    1 Jan 2016 - 1 Jan 2018
    Tork, P
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Determination of the habituation characteristics of New Zealand jumping spiders, Trite planiceps
    1 Jan 2015 - 1 Jan 2017
    Humphrey, B
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Novel and Inexpensive Methodology for Measuring 1080
    1 Jan 2015 - 1 Jan 2015
    O'Malley, T