Current opportunities

I’m always keen to chat to prospective students (honours, masters, PhD) whose research interests align with my work. If you’d like to chat, please send me an email at d.teixeira@qut.edu.au with your CV, academic transcripts and a description of your research interests.

Current supervision

Megan Winsen (Queensland University of Technology, 2023 - present). Sensor fusion for improved biodiversity monitoring. Co-supervised by Prof Jonathan Rhodes.

Daniel Terrington (University of Queensland, 2023 - present). The channel-country of Western Queensland: marginal habitat or critical refuge for the elusive and critically endangered plains-wanderer? Co-supervised by Prof James Watson, Dr Nick Leseberg and Dr Jane McDonald.

Stephen Molan, PhD (Queensland University of Technology, 2022 - present). Sensing the Landscape – acoustic monitoring as a tool to assess ecological condition & conservation impact (QUT and Bush Heritage Australia). Co-supervised by A/Prof Susan Fuller and Prof Paul Roe.

Katie Turlington, PhD (Griffith University, 2020 - present). Linking sound and environmental drivers in freshwater streams using machine learning. Co-supervised by Professor Fran Sheldon, Dr Andrés Felipe Suárez Castro and Dr Simon Linke.

Justine Rice (University of Queensland, 2023). Co-supervised by Dr April Reside and Prof Martine Maron.

Former students

Alex Western, Masters (University of Queensland, 2020 - 2021). Modelling the feeding habitat of the Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) in response to fire and climate change in South East Queensland. Co-supervised by Dr Berndt van Rensburg.

Katie Turlington, Masters (Griffith University, 2019 - 2020). Optimising study-design for acoustic monitoring with automatic call recognisers. Co-supervised by Dr Simon Linke.

Fiona Hoegh-Guldberg, Honours (University of Queensland, 2019). The effects of non-linear sound in the begging-calls of adult female Kangaroo Island glossy black-cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus) on fledging success. Co-supervised by Dr Berndt van Rensburg.

Ashleigh Gonzalez, Honours (University of Queensland, 2019). Acoustic indices and machine learning to advance call recognition techniques for the critically endangered plains-wanderer, Pedionomus torquatus. Co-supervised by Dr Berndt van Rensburg and Professor Paul Roe.

Nick Delzoppo, Honours (University of Queensland, 2018). The effects of time-since-fire on drooping sheoak (Allocasuarina verticillata) and implications for the glossy black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus) on Kangaroo Island. Co-supervised by Dr Berndt van Rensburg.