Mariella Herberstein

Professor Mariella Herberstein has been with Macquarie University for nearly 20 years. She joined Macquarie as a lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences. Professor Herberstein held the position of Chair of Senate from May 2016 to July 2020. She is a biologist, having completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney and PhD at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on the behaviour of spiders, and she has taught at all levels of undergraduate biology, most recently teaching first year evolution and biodiversity. From 2012 - 2015, Mariella was the Head of Department and from 2015 - 2016 Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Science and Engineering.