1978: BSc. Zoology, University of Maryland (U.S.A.)
1984: PhD. Biology, University of California (U.S.A.)

• 2009 - present, Director and CEO, Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences (SIMS)
• 1994 - present, Director, Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation (CMB)
• 2007 - 2009, CEO, Biosignal Ltd
• 2005 - present, Professor, UNSW
• 2003 - 2005, Head, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science

BIOS2011 - Evolutionary and physiological ecology
BIOS3091 - Marine and aquatic ecology

• Alexandra Campbell: Climate change and disease: bleaching and bacterial infection of a chemically-defended macroalga
• Jacinta Green: Does fouling affect algae? (with Dr Paul Gribben, UTS)
• Nigel Lewin: The development of a 'living' antifouling paint incorporating bacteria (with Dr Lachlan Yee)
• Yola Metti: The morphology and molecular phylogeny of the red algal genus Laurencia (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) from NSW (with Dr Alan Millar, Botanic Gardens Trust)
• Shaun Nielsen: Bacteria on coralline algae as settlement cues for marine invertebrate larvae (with Dr Tilmann Harder, UNSW)
• Jan Tebben: Identification of inducers of settlement of invertebrate larvae (with Dr Tilmann Harder, UNSW)

• Dr. Anis Afsar (2008) Wax based antifouling technologies.
• Dr. Sharon Longford (2008) The ecology of epiphytic bacteria on the marine red alga Delisea pulchra
• Dr. Rebecca Swanson (2007) Histamine – a naturally occurring settlement cue for larvae of the Australian sea urchin Holopneustes purpurascens
• Dr. Megan Huggett (2006) Settlement of generalist marine invertebrate herbivores in response to bacterial biofilms.
• Dr. Nicholas Paul (2006) The ecology of chemical defence in a filamentous marine red alga

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Email: p.steinbergunsw.edu.au

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