A/Prof Lisa Schwanz is the Deputy Director of the Evolution & Ecology Research Centre within the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She completed her PhD on the evolutionary ecology of animal reproduction at the University of New Mexico (USA) in 2006. She has been an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biological Informatics, an NSF International Research Fellow, and an ARC DECRA. A/Prof. Schwanz investigates how non-human animals respond to change in their environment, integrating perspectives from genetics, physiology, ecology, and evolution. Her research focuses particularly on environmental influences on sex development, using theory and empiricism to explore the evolutionary dynamics and ecological consequences of sex development.