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Madeleine Beekman

Location: Macleay Building, Room 249 | Phone: 9351 8779 | Email:

Professor of Behavioural Ecology

Madeleine Beekman

I am generally interested in evolutionary questions, and social insects are an excellent model system. Currently my research interests can be grouped into four main themes:

  • conflict and cooperation
  • evolution of the dance language in the genus Apis, and
  • decision-making in decentralised systems.
  • Intergenomic conflict

For more information see the research and publication pages.

I joined the University of Sydney in May 2001 after having been a postdoc at the University of Sheffield (UK). I collaborate extensively with people scattered around the globe and love doing field work.