Professor Fritz Geiser

Professor - School of Environmental and Rural Science

Fritz Geiser

Phone: +61 2 6773 2868

Email: fgeiser@une.edu.au

Building: Room 8, Earth Sciences Building C002

Biography

Fritz is the inaugural Madgwick Distinguished Professor (now Emeritus). He works in Zoology, is interested in the ecological physiology of animals and has studied/worked at Universities in Austria, Australia, Canada, China, Germany,  Patagonia (Argentina), South Africa and the USA, and also at two CSIRO Divisions in Australia.

Scholarships/Awards/Honours

  • 1981-82 Research Scholarship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • 1983-85 Flinders University Research Scholarship
  • 1985-87 Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship
  • 2002 Vice-Chancellor''s Award for Excellence in Research, University of New England
  • 2002 Supervisor of the Year Award, University of New England Postgraduate Association
  • Most recent paper in: The Eighty Most Cited Articles in Physiological Zoology/Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 1927 to 2006
  • 2007 Australian Mammal Society, Scruffy Award
  • 2009 Guinness World Records. Yearlong hibernation in a marsupial mammal. Naturwissenschaften 94: 941-944
  • 2010 Prize for Overall Best Paper awarded at the 14th Australasian Bat Society Conference, Darwin
  • 2013 Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA), Australian Research Council
  • 2015 Appointment, College of Experts, Australian Research Council
  • 2016 Madgwick Distinguished Professor (Research) Award
  • 2017 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Visiting Fellow
  • 2017 Top 90 papers in journal, 1927 to 2017: #8 Geiser & Ruf 1995. Physiological & Biochemical Zoology 90: 125-138
  • 2023 Research Interest Score Top 1% of all Research Gate members

Professional Experience

  • 1978-81 Demonstrator and Research Assistant, Institutes of Zoology and Zoophysiology, Universität Hohenheim
  • 1981-83 Research Associate, CSIRO Division of Food Research and School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, and Research Assistant, Schools of Chemistry and Biological Sciences Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  • 1983-85 Demonstrator, Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide
  • 1985-87 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  • 1987 April-December, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  • 1988- Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (1992), Associate Professor (1997), Professor (2003), Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, Australia
  • 1991-92 Visiting Research Fellow, Special Research Centre for Ecophysiology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany (Sabbatical Leave, 6 Months)
  • 1998 Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (Sabbatical Leave, 2.5 Month)
  • 2004 Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (Sabbatical Leave, 1 Month)
  • 1998-07 and 2010 Convenor (Head) Division of Zoology, University of New England
  • 2002-06 Chair, Animal Ethics Committee, University of New England
  • 2005 Associate Dean Research, Faculty of the Sciences, University of New England (5 months)
  • 2002- Director, Research Centre for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology (BPERC)
  • 2006-09 President, Australian Mammal Society Inc.
  • 2008 Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, and Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Pt. Elizabeth, South Africa (Sabbatical Leave, 6 months)
  • 2011 Visiting Professor, Physiology, University of Sydney, and Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Univ. Nacional de la Patagonia, Esquel, Argentina (Sabbatical Leave, 6 months)
  • 2012 Research Evaluation Committee, Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), Australian Research Council
  • 2015 Visiting Professor, Integrative Biology and Evolution, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria (2 months)
  • 2015 Research Evaluation Committee, Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), Australian Research Council
  • 2016-18 Biological Sciences and Biotechnology College of Experts, Australian Research Council