Advisory Board Member

Professor Lee Astheimer
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Wollongong

Professor Lee Astheimer is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Wollongong (UOW). Professor Astheimer graduated with a BSc Hon. from Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario CAN (1976) and a PhD in Ecology University California, Davis, USA (1984). She was awarded a National Institutes of Health–NIMH Postdoctoral Award (1988-1991) in comparative endocrinology and behaviour which she undertook at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She has had academic positions at Rutger's University, New Jersey, USA and the University of Tasmania, and has been at the University of Wollongong since 1994. Lee's research interests are focussed on comparative endocrinology and behaviour related to nutrition, reproduction and stress in vertebrates including humans. She has maintained competitive funding for her research, most recently using physiological methods to evaluate health in populations of declining Australian birds. Since 2006 she has been Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Wollongong, managing research policy and development, research students and the University's submissions to the Research Quality Framework.