The Research Team
Meet Our Curtin Researchers
Dr Holly Bradley
Holly leads the Fauna Habitat Research Group at Curtin University. Her work focusses on optimising artificial roost design for Pilbara ghost bats and developing the National Guidelines for Fauna Habitat in Mine Site Restoration, in collaboration with mining industry partners, government, Traditional Custodians and academia.
Associate Professor Bill Bateman
Bill is a wildlife biologist who researches animal behaviour, conservation and ecophysiology. He has published over 85 papers and book chapters, with research spanning invertebrates through to large mammals.
Professor Stephen van Leeuwen
Professor Stephen van Leeuwen is Australia’s first Indigenous Chair of Biodiversity and Environmental Science. He is a respected South West Boojarah Wardandi Noongar leader with a profound respect for Country who engages and builds collaborative relationships with Traditional Owners and other land managers to co-deliver novel and enduring outcomes for biodiversity conservation, bio-cultural land management, and the stewardship of Country.
Dr Sean Tomlinson
Sean is an ecophysiologist with an interest in the interactions between physiological traits, movement and dispersal, and ecology and evolution that together define the ecological niche.
External Partners (Adjunct Researchers)
Dr Michael Craig
Mike has a primary research interest in understanding human impacts on ecosystems and how we might ameliorate or reverse those impacts. In particular, understanding the role that restoration might play in reducing human impacts on faunal communities and developing techniques to increase and accelerate faunal return to restored sites.
Dr Alex Carey
Research Scientist, DBCA Animal Science Program
Northern quoll specialist researcher.
Dr Mike Lohr
Mike is an Adjunct Lecturer at Edith Cowan University currently working on a variety of projects relating to anticoagulant rodenticides and their impacts on non-target fauna. Other research interests include control and ecology of introduced plants and animals and avian ecology.
Meet our students
We have a team of 4 Master of Philosophy students (2026-2028)
Jaimee Tilley
Native and invasive vertebrate use of artificial habitat structures in mine site restoration
Amy Pomeroy
Optimising artificial habitat design for northern quolls
Rain Dobbs
Encouraging culturally significant goannas back into restored landscapes
Kayler McMullin
Movement ecology of the northern quoll to inform landscape scale mine site